Comment saying he sits in the bath seat all the time whilst he gets in the shower and he plays peekaboo he loves it.....so not the first time hes apparently left him in bathtub alone, next comment is he doesnt like baths thats why grandma washed his hair this morning he doesnt like baths?!?! Contradicting? Doesnt make sence? If you knew he doesnt like baths more of a reason TO NOT LEAVE HIM IN THE BATH knowing a child will escape the bath if he doesnt like it !!!
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Yes, at the hospital at some point he presumably realised that if he’d said he’d tried CPR at home, they’d be able to prove or disprove this very easily because of saliva and DNA in Preston’s mouth. Cue the dramatic rush through the corridors to find Preston who had already been pronounced dead, to start a futile attempt after all the doctor’s efforts had sadly failed, to give mouth to mouth. That is incredibly calculated and I hope it’s a point that gets brought up in cross examination.
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He's coming across as pretty dramatic in the transcripts to be fair. The medical staff will sadly be used to grieving relatives reactions to being told a patient has died, and he must have presented as being more on the dramatic side, plus the fact one member of staff noted there were no tears.
Possibly "doing too much", the killer of Star Hobson was noted as being performative at the hospital.
The theatrics are reminding me of Anghaard James. GCSE level acting. Everyone there could see right through it
I read it as perhaps it was a bath/shower and they had a baby seat, one that sticks to the bottom of the main bath tub. So he’s trying to say he’d sit Preston at one end while he showered, so wouldn’t actually be leaving him in the water. But then I’ve got no idea how he’d be able to say he’d drowned. I suspect all the things he said at the hospital were to display the fact that he was pretending to be absolutely mystified on what could have happened to result in the death of Preston, possibly in the hope that the medical professionals would draw their own conclusion of some sort of tragic accident and that would be that. I believe absolutely everything he says and does at that point is to try and save his own skin. He also said to the paramedic ‘he climbs’ so was definitely trying to create multiple scenarios that could have been to blame.
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"he doesn't deserve me" "we didn't deserve this", very telling amid the performance
I'm a social worker, and I'm hoping the general introduction process was around 1-2 weeks and was agreed as facts by all parties therefore didn't need to be covered in oral evidence.
Even John caught him out on a lie! I hope he doesn’t try to protect him. Although he’s just as culpable!
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Unless hes reminding him of "the story"
Can someone help me find an article from a few weeks ago with Preston’s birth mother? There were photos of them together at a contact centre, and she was in full PPE (face shield, apron, gloves) due to Covid. I’m sure it was the BBC but I can’t find it anywhere.
Are you sure that wasn't the other adopted baby, Leiland James Corkhill? He was murdered by his adoptive mother and there is a similar photo of Leiland with his birth mother.
Ah yes! It was. Thanks for setting me straight.
I’ve still got my scrap book and life story book 27 years later I love to look through them sometimes
Find it strange how he says he didnt like bath times (prob because he realised thats when the sa was going to happen)
I've managed to find a bit of info. It looks like there was a general meeting in February with possible adopters, foster carers, SW and Preston.
Once matched they met on 23 March. possibly other meeting in between. Then again 28 March and Preston moved in on 3rd April with JV and JFM.
I’ll be honest and say I doubt a baby of that age quite had the reasoning skills to associate baths with SA. It’s not impossible I guess, but unlikely. Plenty of babies and toddlers go through phases of hating baths, especially hair washing.
Over-performative grief is very common in murderers and abusers. Not only in situations like this, but when eg a child has disappeared and the family make a public appeal on TV. There are signs that forensic psychologists can pin down that suggest that an individual needs checking more closely. (I'm not saying that they're always the guilty, party but it is rare that they don't know more than they're letting on.). I think it's a combination of attention-seeking, bad acting and self-pity ("Omigod I might get found out!).
There was one man who set fire to his home killing his (IIRC) six young children, who was in tears, begging the public to give the police as much information as they could to find the killer of his babies etc and something about his 'performance' alerted investigating officers to the fact that there was more to him than met the eye. It transpired that he wanted a bigger council house and so he had torched the one he had, with all the children inside it.
I know there is no "right" way to exhibit grief, but to people who are familiar with grief responses can recognise sincerity/ insincerity.
This isn't the case I was thinking of, but it is similar.
Derby fire deaths: Mick Philpott 'no right-minded father'
East Midlands Today reporter Simon Hare looks back at the Derby fire deaths
www.bbc.co.uk
Over-performative grief by guilty persons is very common.
Children and animals learn very quickly which situations/people will cause them pain or any sort of harm.
This is an evolutionary response which could possibly save their lives (and is embodied in the saying "the burnt child fears the fire") - it only takes one incident and the association is made. Sadly Preston was too young and too small to avoid the situations he dreaded - but he could still cry and struggle to show his distress.
The descriptions of JV behavior in hospital are reminding me strongly of the murderer in a case a few years ago (Baby Star)
And me of Kane Mitchell who murdered baby Teddie, it was a 24 hours in police custody episode and they had all the body cam footage of the theatrics in the hospital. Absolutely harrowing watch but just showed the level of drama often employed by these perpetrators to try and cover their heinous acts.
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