Pizzas galore!

In the documentary, the McCanns also say that the moment that the Portuguese police made them “arguidos”, or official suspects in the case, was like being “in the middle of a horror movie”.

“It just hit home - ’they haven’t been looking for Madeleine’," says Mrs McCann.

“I just felt yet again my daughter’s had such disservice ... I just thought she deserves so much better than that, and I thought I’m not going to sit here and allow this.”

She goes on: “I wasn’t scared. I felt like I was going to fight the world, to be honest. My daughter was worth more than all that and I would do whatever it took to fight for justice and truth.”

She says alongside the fear and indignation, she was filled with a powerful need to protect her two other children, twins Sean and Amelie.

“I started thinking ’well if they’re saying that about us being involved with Madeleine, you know it’s not long before they say what about Sean and Amelie, what about their other two children?’.

“And I can remember saying to Gerry’s mum and Gerry’s sisters, ’do not let anyone near them’.

“And they were like ’Don’t you worry’ ... and it was back again to the sort of lioness and her cubs. I’d just do whatever it took to protect them.”

Mr McCann said that he was plagued by fear of what it would mean for Sean and Amelie if the police charged them.

“The speculation takes you to the worst places,” he says. “And at that point you know the worst place would have been being charged, potentially being put in jail, certainly being detained to face charges that could have taken, I don’t know, years to materialise - being separated from Sean and Amelie.

“These sort of things were going through your mind and you’re, because it’s a system that you’re unfamiliar with, you don’t know what could happen.”

Mrs McCann goes on to attack the Portuguese police openly, accusing them of deliberately leaking details of the investigation to smear them.

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