'I should have gone in there and lied him down myself'
Mr McGowan-Fazakerley says it is ‘ridiculous, stupid, pathetic’ that Mr Varley continued to take photos of Preston.
‘I told Jamie when I went up them stairs, fleetingly because I was in the middle of cooking Sunday lunch, to lie my son down in the cot, and he should have lied him down and now I am viewing these images.
‘I should have gone in there and lied him down myself. I told my partner, who I trust to lie him down because I was cooking.’
‘Do you consider this to be a dereliction of your duty?’, Mr Wright says.
‘No. I told my partner to lie him down and I left that room believing he would lie him down. I’m then viewing those images 23 months later in a police interview.’
The defendant says he never assaulted Preston physically or sexually.
‘That morning we went out shopping for a new bed for our new house. What sort of person goes out and buys a lovely big bed that he can jump on, on a Saturday morning, or watch Christmas films and goes home and [sexually assaults] their child?’ he says.
He says he did not see blue lips on Preston when he saw him over the bars of the cot.
The defendant agrees that later that afternoon Preston had a sore bottom.
What strange priorities he has. He sees poor Preston hung over the bars of his cot potentially having his airways cut off. But he’s cooking dinner so it’s more important to make sure the chicken isn’t burning than remove the poor child from danger. What vile vile creatures they both are