The Tragic Life Of Preston Davey: The Phone Footage
The Trial
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🗓️ 1 May 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
In this episode Caroline and Liz have the latest in the case of Preston Davey - a baby the prosecution say was abused and murdered after he was adopted by two men - Jamie Varley and John McGowan Fazakerly. Today we’ve got evidence of the videos and pictures from Jamie Varley’s mobile phone. In many of them Preston is naked and in some Jamie Varley appears to be naked too. The prosecution say the jury will have to decide if they are cruel and indecent. We’ve also got the evidence from Jamie Varley’s colleagues who say he gave different accounts of how Preston broke his arm in the weeks before he died. And we hear that at one point the hospital did report some of Preston’s injuries to the police but no investigation was launched.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Trial U.K., |
| 0:07.0 | the Trial UK, the tragic life of Preston Davy. I'm Caroline Cheatham. |
| 0:12.0 | And I'm Liz Hall. |
| 0:13.0 | Today on the podcast, we've got more details about the life and death of baby Preston Davy. |
| 0:19.0 | We've heard evidence that when he was handed over to the two men who adopted him, he was |
| 0:24.6 | fit, happy and healthy. Four months later, he was dead. |
| 0:28.6 | In those four months, Preston went to hospital several times, once with a broken arm, |
| 0:32.6 | and then on another occasion the hospital raised concerns with the police, |
| 0:36.6 | but there was no |
| 0:37.5 | investigation. In videos and pictures which have now been shown to the jury, Preston can be seen |
| 0:43.1 | consistently naked on one occasion in a bath with no water in. One video shows him playing |
| 0:50.3 | happily in the bath, but then crying in fright when Jamie Varley loudly shouts, |
| 0:55.6 | boo. And in a series of pictures, Preston is seen naked and comments are allegedly made |
| 1:01.1 | by Jamie Varley about his genitals. Today we also have the evidence from friends and colleagues |
| 1:07.3 | of Jamie Varley, who said he was struggling with the lack of sleep and had dark |
| 1:11.7 | thoughts about harming Preston. And how he allegedly questioned if Preston's death could be the fault |
| 1:18.3 | of his birth mother who may have used drink and drugs when she was pregnant. Welcome to |
| 1:24.8 | episode two, the phone footage. We'll be back in a second. That is the sound of a video which shows Preston Davy. |
| 1:58.8 | He's standing in a baby walker in a lounge watching a children's TV |
| 2:02.6 | show. Now it's the kind of video thousands of parents have recorded of their kids. But in this case, |
| 2:08.4 | the allegation is what was happening to Preston Davy in that house was far from idyllic. It was |
| 2:15.2 | abuse. It was cruel and it was murder. So just a quick reminder about |
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