BONUS: The Tragic Life Of Preston Davey: "You've killed him Jamie."
The Trial
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4.2 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2026
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
In this extra episode Caroline and Liz have the moment Jamie Varley is faced with the extent of the allegations against him - and his reaction to them. He tells detective they are wrong that he sexually abused and murdered his adopted 13-month-old son, Preston Davey, and he will fight the allegations until the day he dies.
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| 0:00.0 | The Crime Desk. Arresting Podcasts. |
| 0:14.8 | Welcome to the trial UK, the tragic life of Preston Davy. |
| 0:18.7 | I'm Caroline Cheatham. |
| 0:20.4 | And I'm Liz Hull. So Liz, we are releasing |
| 0:25.4 | an extra episode. Really, we decided to do this last night, didn't we? And that's because |
| 0:32.1 | Lancashire Police have released a video of one of Jamie Varley's police interviews. Now, we've referred to this a little bit |
| 0:40.8 | in the last few days and a lot of what he talks about in this police video has also been |
| 0:49.6 | referred to in court for the last week or so. And this full video that was shown to the jury has now |
| 0:56.3 | been released. And as opposed to sum it up, Liz, it's Jamie Varley being interviewed in June |
| 1:03.1 | 2025 by a female detective who's obviously looking into allegations of murder and abuse of Preston Davy. |
| 1:14.6 | And I suppose in this video, Liz, what we normally do with these videos is we release sections |
| 1:20.8 | of it to try and illustrate what we've heard in court. |
| 1:24.9 | And it's actually quite unusual for us to get full videos. So it was |
| 1:30.3 | released quite late last night. We know the jury saw it a few days ago. And we just felt it gave a |
| 1:35.9 | bit of context to some of the things that we've been saying in terms of, obviously, the prosecution |
| 1:41.6 | case against Jamie Varley, but also his defence as well. |
| 1:47.3 | We've not yet got into his defence case, but obviously what he says in this police interview |
| 1:51.4 | is that he did not harm Preston. |
| 1:56.0 | So before we play it, Liz, we are just going to play it today, aren't we? |
| 1:59.6 | We've edited it slightly for |
| 2:02.3 | taste and ethical reasons. Some of it, Liz, though, is still disturbing. So we should say |
| 2:09.4 | some people might find the detail distressing. But I suppose we should just quickly mention |
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