Former teacher guilty of sexually abusing and murdering baby boy he wanted to adopt - CPS

I have been wondering the same thing. How did they think this would end? Did they ever think they would be found out? Did they not realise that they were doing physical harm and that Preston could be seriously injured and questions would be asked?

Yeah, I don't think his histrionics and retching performances are going to get him very far in prison.

They have been absolute heroes in this. Both of their victim impact statements had me in tears. They did everything they could for Preston, genuinely loved and adored him. I'm so glad he experienced and knew their love for the first ten months, but cannot even begin to imagine how utterly broken they both are by what was allowed to happen to him.

Kyle Bevan beat his girlfriends 2 year old daughter to death. Good riddance to bad rubbish. His killers are on whole life tariffs so they have nothing to lose, Varley and his boyfriend are highly likely to get the same treatment. Theh need wiping off the face of the earth ASAP

Yes. Same at the school a friend of mine worked at. It was the deputy head, and, naturally. safeguarding lead. Suddenly disappeared, had been done for CSA of his own daughter.

Regarding prison justice, this case is being reported on

Inmates found guilty of killing Kyle Bevan in HMP Wakefield - BBC News https://share.google/USSROKUqPX6fefHKQ

Kyle Bevan murdered a 2 yo girl. That's more than I want to know, I suspect the details are grim as fuck. Of his murderers; Mark Fellowes is a contract killer of at least two people, David Taylor* has confessed to murdering a young woman but not disclosed where her body is, he also stabbed a Police Officer in the chest with a previously concealed makeshift weapon because 'fuck it', Lee Newell murdered his female neighbour and (while incarcerated) another child killer, he lost his eye and suffered brain damage when attacked by other inmates for which he sued (I don't know if successfully, might be ongoing) the Prison Service. Two are now serving whole life terms. Taylor seems likely to be given the same but seems to have been ongoing. I suspect it's probably a given now.

These men are scum. The man they murdered was scum but wtf is going on in our prisons?

Agreed!

I don’t think they wanted a cute accessory, I think they wanted a vulnerable baby to use for their own sick gratification. I think they arrogantly underestimated how much attention and interaction a baby needs, even one that you intend to abuse. And they actively made the situation worse by hurting him and treating him badly in general. Like keeping him awake when he was tired and shouting at him to wake him up, as well as physically harming him. The foster parents managed to care for him perfectly well despite acknowledging that he was a poor sleeper, because they weren’t abusive and weren’t trying to harm him.

It said on the news that Varley came to resent the baby because it was Interfering with his sleeping patterns. Really it was that base. He wanted some sort of cute accessory

I don’t know why you think that. The rumour is that Ian Watkins was murdered over a drug debt, not by some avenger (himself a murdered and rapist) 🙄

There’s so much to wonder and rage about.
Were they at any point hoping to love and cherish a child? Did they simply want something to abuse? How the fuck did they think this was going to end? At the best level, where was their self preservation?!

The poor wee chap.

Whole life tariff for the main one, 25 years for the other. Excellent. I hope he suffers every single day and lives a long, long, time.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czrx8gj112mo

One of the short videos of Varley shows him in the hospital having found out that wee Preston hadn't survived and he begs to be killed. Presumably he's so upset because he's just realised he is going to be in a lot of trouble. I hope he lives a long time.

I posted about this upthread but Blackpool has nearly three times the national average of 'looked after' children. I don't know if this would include children adopted from a different LA. It's also one of the most economically deprived areas in the country. I suspect the SWs there are run off their feet and burned out. They'll also be trying to keep track of children who are still with their parents. Varley probably couldn't have lived in a better area for his behaviour to have been overlooked. The 'little cry' comment by one after the baby's arm was broken is utterly heartbreaking. That poor child.

I don't want his murderer to come to serious harm in prison. I don't care if it's something he lives in fear of though. Ian Huntley, the Soham murderer, was killed by Anthony Russell, a triple killer. One of his victims was pregnant, he raped and strangled her not long after she'd shown him the scans of her unborn baby. It upsets me that Googling him brings up first that he killed Huntley, like he's some deliverer of justice, not that he's just as evil and killed because that's what he does.

One of the reasons I wouldnt cope as a foster parent. Absolutely heartbreaking.

Imagine raising a baby from birth to nine months old, and then four months later they've been murdered after being abused, just four months later. I don't think they'll ever get over it.

“Part of the child safeguarding practice review into Preston's death will focus on whether any opportunities were missed in his care before his death.”
bbc

clearly there were

Thanks.

God yes it's classic example

The person who is specifically trained to handle all the school safeguarding incidents. They will have access to more information about children who have specific safeguarding concerns. They must be highly trained.

designated safeguarding lead

DSL? Sorry I'm a bit behind. Is that something Support Learning?

there is also CLEARLY an issue with who he was from their pov.

a teacher, DSL. Judge said that his previous good character clouded judgement. And there are very big questions to be asked about whether staff were worried about being accused of homophobia.

Ive said similar to others recently.

DSL at my son’s school disappeared suddenly and apparently under investigation for inappropriate images. A teacher at the school said all the staff felt he was creepy and inappropriate with girls. PE teacher.

I read the impact statements from the foster parents. They were really Preston's parents, not his birth mother or his biological dad, given that he was with them from very small until he was 9 months, and they had done a wonderful job with him. I can't imagine what it must be like for them to have other foster children and then hand them over for adoption too.

That’s awful