Biological parents of 13-month-old killed by adoptive dad issue statement as he's sentenced to life in prison
An ‘evil’ school teacher who murdered and sexually abused his 13-month adopted baby will spend the rest of his life in jail, as the biological parents issue a heartbreaking statement.
Jamie Varley endured baby Preston Davey with ‘unremitting abuse’ and sexual assault that took his life, Preston Crown Court heard.
In April, the 37-year-old adopted the child with his partner, ex-public schoolboy John McGowan-Fazakerley, 32, who has been jailed for 25 years for allowing Varley’s treatment of the child.
Lancashire Police Detective Chief Inspector Andy Fallows said: “Jamie Varley is an evil and monstrous individual who sexually, physically and mentally abused a vulnerable baby for his own sadistic pleasure.
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“I struggle to imagine the horror that Preston endured in his short life.
“This has been one of the most challenging investigations our force major investigation team has ever undertaken, and the most extreme example of sordid and wicked behaviour by two completely remorseless human beings.
“This is a case which has truly shocked the nation.”
Preston's biological mother and grandmother, Sarah and Debbie Davey, issued a victim statement which said they were left with ‘unimaginable pain of wondering’ what happened to their son in his final months.
"Those thoughts do not leave me," Sarah said.
"They are with me when I wake up, and they haunt me when I try to sleep.
"The reality of how he suffered is something I will carry for the rest of my life.
"I will never forgive you for what you did to my son and what you stopped him from becoming and achieving in his life."
Preston had been treated as a 'plaything', the jury at the defendant’s eight-week trial heard, with the child routinely sexually assaulted and physically abused after the couple adopted him aged nine months, before his murder four months later at their Blackpool home.
In a statement read out on behalf of Gary Nolan, the baby's biological father, he said: "Preston was the son that I never got to meet and now never will.
"Upon hearing the news, I remember officers taking hold of me and me blanking out, the next thing I recall is waking up in hospital two days later.
"I am told that I was hysterical and crying and that it was for my own safety that I was taken to the hospital, clearly, I must have been in a bad place mentally."
Sandra Cooper, Preston's foster mum, told the court he was ‘joyful, so content and happy, with sparkly smiling eyes’.
"That is how we want to remember him," she said.
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