Preston Davey Trial #5

[Daisy Uncle]

Oh god. It makes you wonder about the dog....

Happy Birthday, Preston. Life would have been the best gift but I hope justice will do.

I doubt the dog escaped from it either. JV's mum is a bloody liar, she knew she'd dragged him up with 5 other kids, reputation among neighbors as a little tit. She absolutely knew he was abusing the baby, as she knew his personality and once bruises and hospital visits started it was right there in front of her.

 

[SaLou]

Why do so many of these sick paedos seem to be into animals too? It's absolutely vile.

 

[TheMiceInTheShed]

Why do so many of these sick paedos seem to be into animals too? It's absolutely vile.

Because, like children, animals are vulnerable, can't speak about what is happening to them, and are totally at the mercy of the abuser.

They also have the advantage that if they disappear, nobody thinks twice ("Oh - where's Pippin?" "I gave him to my sister - I'm always at work, it wasn't fair on him")

Animals are hideously vulnerable.

 

[dododododo1]

Something that's sat uncomfortably with me for a while and I feel like I can say it here. Preston looks mixed race to me, I don't believe that both his birth parents were white. And I can't help but wonder if that played an element into his treatment by these two.
Do we know anything about Preston's birth father?

I think he was, he looks very similar to my son who is 1/4 black. I wouldn't put using filters on a baby past that couple (can't even face writing their names), but in some pictures my son looks more "mixed" than in others depending on the lighting, time of the year etc. Every time I see a picture of poor Preston, I just think of my own son.

 

[nothinonyou]

I did squirm at the mention of the video of Preston on the bed and the dog is all over him licking his face and Preston is uncomfortable and kind of swats him away and JV is just filming and doesn't intervene

 

[Ray_of_Sunshine]

I doubt the dog escaped from it either. JV's mum is a bloody liar, she knew she'd dragged him up with 5 other kids, reputation among neighbors as a little tit. She absolutely knew he was abusing the baby, as she knew his personality and once bruises and hospital visits started it was right there in front of her.

Do they not dig into family background when vetting potential adopters?

 

[AladdinSane]

I'm assuming there will not be any charges brought against JV's mum?

 

[Kebab girl]

Quoting myself to add it's the same video.
It's here if anyone was wondering. It is a difficult watch, poor baby. Preston almost looks disgusted at him

Watch heartbreaking moment baby was cruelly deprived of sleep by his killer

The video which shows, little Preston on his first birthday clearly bewildered by the act, was used in evidence to show the level of mental abuse the child faced at the hands of cruel carers.

www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk

I can’t bring myself to read that.
My head is blown at people being so so cruel.
There must have been other indicators, surely you don’t just start with this level of abuse.

They both deserve to rot and be tortured every day of their lives. They are both equally as responsible

 

[Shinythings]

I did squirm at the mention of the video of Preston on the bed and the dog is all over him licking his face and Preston is uncomfortable and kind of swats him away and JV is just filming and doesn't intervene

My concern is they got the dog to SA Preston as unfortunately this isn't unheard of in cases of torture by degrading someone. And I can't believe I'm saying this but especially given some of the positions they put him in and no one would be looking for dog DNA

 

[Daisy Uncle]

Do they not dig into family background when vetting potential adopters?

Yes, but clearly not enough in this case. I think as he was a teacher head of year safeguarding etc etc he got a professional pass to a certain extent. They had an unconscious bias that he was one of them.

 

[ItsmeImtheproblemitsme]

When looking at the timeline, I can’t help but wonder- what were they up to on the days where we’ve not been shown videos and photos? Going about a normal day? Going to the park and not spinning him so his eyes come out of his head? Meeting people for a coffee and cooing over him? Planning what they were going to do next? Were there breaks in the abuse?

 

[Daisy Uncle]

My concern is they got the dog to SA Preston as unfortunately this isn't unheard of in cases of torture by degrading someone. And I can't believe I'm saying this but especially given some of the positions they put him in and no one would be looking for dog DNA

Happened to a friend of a friend's son. I've typed it out and deleted it, really appalling. Parents knew he'd been grape, wasn't until years later and in prison he told the rest, he survived but is broken.

 

[Liverbird2003]

This timeline is mind blowing. I forgot just how incriminating that abandoned 999 call was for JMF. Think it’s safe to say he had participated in extreme abuse that day too and he was at least worried Preston might die then.
There is no natural pathology that leaves children struggling for breath in the absolute extreme and then breathing normally a day later.


Timeline of Preston Davey's tragic life
2022

June 16

At 7.03pm Preston Davey is born four weeks early, weighing 5lb 7oz to Sarah Davey at Wythenshawe Hospital, south Manchester.

June 21

He is placed into emergency care with foster parents, Sandra and Paul Cooper, by Oldham Council via an interim care order, where he remains for the first nine months of his life.

2023

January 6

Varley and McGowan-Fazakerley are approved by Adoption Now, a company providing services to local councils. The company says Preston needs: ‘Love, affection, safety and stability.’

February 13

They meet Preston for the first time during a ‘bumped into’ meeting with Mr and Mrs Cooper and social workers at a pub in Aston-under-Lyne, Manchester.

March 23

Introductory meetings begin proper, first at Mr and Mrs Cooper’s home, then later at Varley and McGowan-Fazakerley’s house, in Staining Road, Blackpool.

March 31

Preston spends his first night at the men's home and is formally placed under their care.

April 6

Varley texts his sister, a baby sleep trainer, saying: 'He's dead meat today. Didn't sleep last night after 11.30pm. Up every one and a half hours.’

April 23-25

Varley takes several videos of himself naked in the bath with Preston, some for over an hour, and other pictures of Preston with his genitals exposed. The prosecution said these showed he had a sexual interest in the baby.

May 11

McGowan-Fazakerley abandons a 999 call then calls 111 to report Preston has ‘breathing problems.’ A call back from a doctor goes unanswered.

May 12

Preston is visited at home by a health visitor and appears well.

May 25

At 11.10am Preston is rushed to Blackpool Victoria Hospital, floppy and unresponsive. Varley reports he has had a nosebleed and the infant has a suspected seizure in A&E.

Nursing staff notice two bruises on his head. A medical report states he has `unexplained injuries, inconsistent with a version of events given.’

Hospital safeguarding are informed and social services and Lancashire Police called.

Following discussions with medical staff the bruises are put down to a baby learning to crawl and are not regarded as suspicious. He is discharged two days later.

June 12

Varley takes a photo of Preston naked and sends it to McGowan-Fazakerley with a crude comment about his private parts.

Another picture shows bruising on the child’s bottom - consistent with a human bite mark.

June 15

The night before Preston’s first birthday.

Varley is angry and frustrated because McGowan-Fazakerley is delayed home from a work trip.

At 9.07pm Varley takes a video showing Preston tired and falling asleep while music from the film Moana plays loudly in the background.

As he nods off Varley wakes him by shouting 'Boo'.

He later takes another video of Preston having an apparent seizure, which the prosecution say is the aftermath of a sexual assault.

June 30

At 8.25pm, Varley and McGowan-Fazakerley take Preston to Blackpool Victoria Hospital A&E Department, saying he has a rash, diarrhoea, vomiting and high temperature.

Nurses notice bruising to Preston’s head, but staff are shown a home video of the child pulling a toy box onto himself, by way of explanation.

Varley comments: ‘You lot are going to think we have been abusing him or something.’

It is later discovered the toy box video was filmed 12 days earlier. Preston is discharged the following day.

July 4

Social worker Amy Shepherdson visits and finds Preston is not himself and looks 'pale.'

She notes: 'He tried to smile several times but then this changed to a very sad face and a little cry.’

July 6

At 10.36am Varley takes Preston to hospital for third time with an injury to his left arm, which he says Preston sustained as he lay him in his cot the previous evening.

After X-ray, a cast is applied for a fractured elbow.

The child's social worker, Amy Shepherdson, who had been in contact with the hospital, texts Varley to say: `Just to reassure you they said they had absolutely no concerns. U absolutely did the right thing.'

July 7

Preston is visited at home by Helen Magee, an independent reviewer from Oldham social services.

In her report of the visit, apparently addressed to the baby, she writes:

'I did watch your [Preston’s] responses to your daddies quite carefully as I’m aware that you had a few hospital admissions of late and this made me ponder a little bit as to whether there was a problem I could see.

'I decided there wasn’t.’

The same week Varley tells a work colleague he is struggling mentally and having ‘dark thoughts’ about drowning or suffocating Preston.

July 13

Rebecca Warhurst, headteacher of South Shore Academy, in Blackpool, where Varley worked, pays him a welfare visit because of concerns over his mental state.

He reassures her he is ok and she leaves with no concerns.

July 23

Four days before Preston’s death, Varley takes seven photos of Preston, stretching over a period of three minutes, 12 seconds.

The child, asleep or unconscious, has his head and arms over the top horizontal bar of his cot and his neck resting on it, his body partially suspended and his legs in a `frog like’ position.

His tongue is protruding and his lips appear blue.

Later, Varley also takes a picture of Preston’s ‘abnormal’ bottom.

July 27

At 4.45pm, Varley records a 35-second video on his phone of Preston in ‘extreme respiratory distress,’ gasping and in need of immediate resuscitation.

At 6.30pm Preston is rushed to Blackpool Victoria Hospital in a critical condition and Varley reports he found him submerged in the bath.

A team of paramedics, nurses and doctors attempt to resuscitate for 50 minutes, but Preston is pronounced dead at 7.18pm.

July 31

A Home Office post-mortem concludes Preston’s cause of death is due to acute upper airway obstruction and rules out drowning.

The autopsy also finds around 40 external and internal injuries including bruises to Preston's forehead, throat, mouth, bladder, bottom and bleeding in his lungs.

Some of the injuries are regarded as clinical signs of sexual abuse.

2025

June 11/12

Varley and McGowan-Fazakerley are arrested and charged in connection with Preston’s death.

2026

April 20

Varley and McGowan-Fazakerley go on trial denying all offences.

It is sickening reading this. I cannot understand how the social worker could not do anything when she saw him try to smile but then he gave a little cry. In isolation, you could write it off but he had been taken to hospital so many times by that point.
I hope Amy the social worker has been sacked. It just baffles me how her gut instinct told her he was ok. I feel sick thinking about how close he came to being saved.

 

[LittleMy]

It is sickening reading this. I cannot understand how the social worker could not do anything when she saw him try to smile but then he gave a little cry. In isolation, you could write it off but he had been taken to hospital so many times by that point.
I hope Amy the social worker has been sacked. It just baffles me how her gut instinct told her he was ok. I feel sick thinking about how close he came to being saved.

I don’t think anyone has been sacked yet over this, according to one of the news articles I read Preston’s bio grandmother said that nobody else was held to account for their failures.

 

[bigmac22]

My concern is they got the dog to SA Preston as unfortunately this isn't unheard of in cases of torture by degrading someone. And I can't believe I'm saying this but especially given some of the positions they put him in and no one would be looking for dog DNA

I don’t even want to type this out - I wonder whether JV/JMF used the defence of the dog having the sex toys in his mouth to pre-empt/try and explain DNA transfer. Also JV using the defence he woke up to the dog licking his face

 

[PaddyDomino]

This is the article that explains their backgrounds, hope the link works:

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[Shinythings]

Yes, but clearly not enough in this case. I think as he was a teacher head of year safeguarding etc etc he got a professional pass to a certain extent. They had an unconscious bias that he was one of them.

It happens so much and I think it will also come out in the wash they were more lenient with them because they were a gay couple.

I've sat in countless safeguarding meetings where myself and others have had serious concerns and it's been brushed off with 'that can't be the case they are (insert respected professional/safeguarding status)'. I have always made a point to challenge that mindset and I always log it in my notes that I had concerns and challenged because god forbid something were to happen I don't want that person's family or potentially the public thinking I sat by and didn't say anything.

 

[Lucymyers]

Something that's sat uncomfortably with me for a while and I feel like I can say it here. Preston looks mixed race to me, I don't believe that both his birth parents were white. And I can't help but wonder if that played an element into his treatment by these two.
Do we know anything about Preston's birth father?

Both his parents are white

 

[watermelonvapes]

JMF being reported as 32? I actually thought he was older

 

[Ray_of_Sunshine]

It is sickening reading this. I cannot understand how the social worker could not do anything when she saw him try to smile but then he gave a little cry. In isolation, you could write it off but he had been taken to hospital so many times by that point.
I hope Amy the social worker has been sacked. It just baffles me how her gut instinct told her he was ok. I feel sick thinking about how close he came to being saved.

Unfortunately I think she’s still registered and working. I hope any family involved with her are given full disclosure but probably not. I wouldn’t trust her as far as I could throw her and she’s clearly not fit for the role.