This is a review of the complete series, not simply the first video. If you've seen this bloke before you will realise that most of what he says is not to be taken seriously, and he has plenty to say about the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, surprisingly much of it insightful and intelligent.
The disappearance of this young girl led to a massive and ongoing manhunt, a media feeding frenzy, and for some people, equally massive financial reward. That much is clear, however, Richard Hall goes much further, claiming, or rather insinuating, that the girl was not really abducted - therefore her parents are implicated in some way.
While their babysitting set up was in retrospect idiotic, did Kate McCann really murder or otherwise kill her daughter? To do that and get away with it, she and her husband would have had to rope in at least a couple of their friends, not only that, but they would have had literally minutes to do so. Could a conspiracy of that nature have withstood the media and other pressure?
Yes, there was that business with the cadaver dogs, and the stories of those involved have changed over time; there is nothing particularly sinister about the latter, human memory is like that.
The obvious conclusion about this case is that the girl was snatched opportunistically by a sexual predator - think Robert Black - and whatever he did to her, she is long since dead; she was probably murdered within a day or two if not that same night. Of course, after other high profile abduction miracles - the latest of which is the Cleveland captives - there is always hope, but let's be realistic about this.
Hall would be wise to stick to what he can prove and not join up too many imaginary dots. Some cases, be they murders, missing kids, medical emergencies...catch the imagination of the public, politicians, and others. Everybody wants a piece of the action, so there does not have to be a vast conspiracy involving the security services or anyone else.
His implication that powerful people covered up what really happened for reasons connected with state organised paedophilia doesn't fly in view of the subsequent "Operation Midland" fiasco which saw detectives investigating ludicrous claims against the powerful - many of them dead - on the uncorroborated testimony of people who are at best three sandwiches short of a picnic, and at worst every bit as mendacious as the unprincipled hacks with whom they were working hand in hand.