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Preston Davey- sentences. Content warning - concerns CSA. (added my MNHQ)

327 replies

Fiddlesticks1 · 18/06/2026 12:57

Preston Davey - whole life term for murderer and 25 years for the partner.
Let’s hope and pray yet again things change so no more poor babies and children die.

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KeepPumping · 18/06/2026 17:33

Mylastusernamewasbetter · 18/06/2026 17:22

  1. Being exhausted and not coping is a familiar experience for many parents, we don't go on to abuse children - it's a bullshit perpetrator excuse
  1. If he was truly struggling he had a responsibility to seek definitive help and they were I believe in the process of formal adoption - you surely say at any of the many meetings or to your assigned case worker that the placement has broken down

This is just excusing paedophilia SA and physical abuse on behalf of the judge, the perpetrator and anyone who buys into his bullshit failure as a human being

Yes, on both points, he "wasn"t coping" with the childcare so he decided to have sexual intercourse with the baby instead, and his pond scum of a partner enabled it?

Puffinsandcoffee · 18/06/2026 17:34

KnitFastDieWarm · 18/06/2026 13:48

I’m against the death penalty and believe in fair and ethical treatment of prisoners.

That said, I’d happily kill these men with my bare hands. What they did to that child is so monstrous that it defies rational comprehension.

That's how I feel too. I'm against the death penalty, all for treating prisoners ethically. But...

I wonder if I actually could, if I came face to face with them, but I feel as if I would happily inflict various painful injuries on them, which I won't describe as it'd get deleted. And post the video on all the pedo forums as a warning.

I hope they are tortured and terrified every day. I hope their lives drag on in abject misery and pain and humiliation and degradation, for years beyond a normal lifespan. I don't feel anything like that degree of malice towards many other people, but seeking out a tiny innocent baby who had no one else to take care of him, taking parental responsibility for him, and doing what they did. Life isn't long enough to punish them for what they did. I wish I believed in hell.

I am against the death penalty, but for this type of crime, where there's no doubt of guilt, I could be persuaded. But I'd want suffering for them too and prison is better at that. Grateful to all the violent, disturbed men who still have some moral compass and will take justice into their own hands in prison.

Mylastusernamewasbetter · 18/06/2026 17:34

KeepPumping · 18/06/2026 17:33

Yes, on both points, he "wasn"t coping" with the childcare so he decided to have sexual intercourse with the baby instead, and his pond scum of a partner enabled it?

Its not sexual intercourse. Its paedophilic rape

placemats · 18/06/2026 17:35

Thedevilhasfinallycaughtupwithhim · 18/06/2026 17:26

A woman’s baby was raped to death by care providers, sanctioned and screened by the state, and you’re saying she has no right to grieve or speak publicly about it.

I’d say that was abusive.

They were not care providers, they were adoptive parents.

And the mother does have rights to stop the adoption process and recall before the paperwork is signed sealed and delivered, especially with children from an abusive family - i.e the mother refuses to give up the partner who is abusive.

In Preston's adoption, as far as we know that didn't happen.

What we do know is that his mother committed an horrific murder, alongside someone else. She was 14 at that time.

There's no doubt in my mind that Preston was murdered by his adoptive parents in a horrific and despicable way.

BertieMartini · 18/06/2026 17:36

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placemats · 18/06/2026 17:37

Thedevilhasfinallycaughtupwithhim · 18/06/2026 17:29

What agenda?

More abuse.

Mylastusernamewasbetter · 18/06/2026 17:37

His partner should have been handed a whole life sentence too. He did not take appropriate steps to protect that poor child

Thedevilhasfinallycaughtupwithhim · 18/06/2026 17:37

placemats · 18/06/2026 17:35

They were not care providers, they were adoptive parents.

And the mother does have rights to stop the adoption process and recall before the paperwork is signed sealed and delivered, especially with children from an abusive family - i.e the mother refuses to give up the partner who is abusive.

In Preston's adoption, as far as we know that didn't happen.

What we do know is that his mother committed an horrific murder, alongside someone else. She was 14 at that time.

There's no doubt in my mind that Preston was murdered by his adoptive parents in a horrific and despicable way.

Adoptive parents are care providers.

She trusted the state to find him a safe home.

They failed.

What happened to that poor boy isn’t part of her punishment.

Thedevilhasfinallycaughtupwithhim · 18/06/2026 17:37

placemats · 18/06/2026 17:37

More abuse.

Pardon me?

Peacequiet · 18/06/2026 17:38

FourCheese · 18/06/2026 17:05

Sorry but that’s nonsense. She’s the mother of the child. She committed a horrid murder nearly 30 years ago, as a child herself. As someone else said rightly said, her son being sexually abused to death is not part of her punishment.

She can still love her child regardless of her criminal history. If she had abused Preston then fair enough, but she did not.

She has every right to issue a statement.

She committed a horrific murder at the age of 14 on an elderly woman she knew exactly what she was doing when she tortured her to death. She should of been in prison for life.

What happens to any child that is abuse in unforgivable - both of those men are vile abusers would emotionally, mentally, physically and sexually abused and murdered him.

The mother’s baby was taken into care because of what she has done and where she is in life. She has a right to comment. But the irony in her comments is noted when she herself tortured someone innocent to death.

Mylastusernamewasbetter · 18/06/2026 17:38

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Shame on you.

To say that about an innocent tiny baby

It doesn't matter what his mother did or didn't do

He was a life..a tiny little baby.

placemats · 18/06/2026 17:38

Thedevilhasfinallycaughtupwithhim · 18/06/2026 17:37

Adoptive parents are care providers.

She trusted the state to find him a safe home.

They failed.

What happened to that poor boy isn’t part of her punishment.

They are parents.

Are all parents care providers?

Thedevilhasfinallycaughtupwithhim · 18/06/2026 17:39

placemats · 18/06/2026 17:38

They are parents.

Are all parents care providers?

Yes.

BeSpryPombear · 18/06/2026 17:40

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KeepPumping · 18/06/2026 17:40

Thedevilhasfinallycaughtupwithhim · 18/06/2026 17:26

A woman’s baby was raped to death by care providers, sanctioned and screened by the state, and you’re saying she has no right to grieve or speak publicly about it.

I’d say that was abusive.

Any more abusive than pretending you were an old persons friend then beating and torturing them to death before stealing their money to stuff your face with crisps and then dumping them in a canal? Many criminals with a public "past" just keep a lid on it and don"t get involved with the national media when they are involved in an incident that affects them, they just keep it family only. Sad to say it but she wants the attention I`m afraid, that would fit the psychotic persona.

Wevebeenwaiting · 18/06/2026 17:43

kellymoon44 · 18/06/2026 15:03

Another poster said that the birth mum also failed preston, and I agreed with her

What about his father?? Where's your vitriol for him?

I've read some disgusting things on MN but this is scraping the barrel.

DannyDeever · 18/06/2026 17:43

kellymoon44 · 18/06/2026 14:06

"both these men were fully capable of choosing their actions. And not showing signs of being traumatized"

Didn't Jamie Varley say several times to friends, family and colleagues that he wasn't coping well with the baby. He wrote that the baby was a bad sleeper and he was not coping.

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Or was he just saying that in case he ever had to excuse the injuries he was causing the boy? Better to say "I lost my rag" than what he was actually doing.

placemats · 18/06/2026 17:43

Thedevilhasfinallycaughtupwithhim · 18/06/2026 17:39

Yes.

Do you think Preston's mother would have been a good care provider?

Because it's obvious that his murderer didn't think so.

Puffinsandcoffee · 18/06/2026 17:44

kellymoon44 · 18/06/2026 13:54

I've reached a stage where I can understand how those two men got to be like how they are. I grew up in a very abusive home and I did a huge amount of healing and research. Those men were more than likely - severelyabused themselves as children. This hardens people and makes them become cruel.

As a society , we are all failing children. What is making adults be cruel to children? Too much pressure on adults, not enough help. Also people were abused themselves and copy behaviour,

Jamie Varley in this instance said he couldn't cope with looking after the baby. In this case the men were extra disgusting. But it is society that needs to change.

How can we all improve as a society. We need to give more support to parents so they are more able to cope. My aunt was abusive to her son when he was a child. I saw her constantly shout at him and show him no live. When I was older, she told me that she found it too difficult and couldn't cope

With respect, absolutely fucking not. I had a violent addict for a father. My brother was subjected to severe physical abuse. We were all terrified of him. None of us are abusive. The vast, overwhelming majority of abused children do not go on to abuse their own children.

Jamie the baby raper Varley couldn't cope with parenting, and you can understand that?? Jesus Christ.

I know how hard parenting can be, especially if you've been abused yourself. It's never occurred to me to abuse my babies as a stress response.

Your aunt "constantly shouted" at her son. Lots of stressed parents do. To me, the suggestion that what Jamie Varley did is just "extra disgusting" is deplorable.

The social issues here are not to do with support for parents. No doubt stressed parents do end up abusing their kids. But abusive to the point of murder after 4 months? Wise up.

Thedevilhasfinallycaughtupwithhim · 18/06/2026 17:45

placemats · 18/06/2026 17:43

Do you think Preston's mother would have been a good care provider?

Because it's obvious that his murderer didn't think so.

No. Obviously not.

I just don’t think the logical conclusion of that is to give him to predators.

KeepPumping · 18/06/2026 17:45

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Guy makes me sick just to look at him, sounds totally self-absorbed, should never have been anywhere near an adoption hearing.

BertieMartini · 18/06/2026 17:45

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Lyla82 · 18/06/2026 17:46

I have never read something as disgusting as what those vile creatures did to that poor poor baby. What an awful short life he had. A tiny baby who couldn't even walk yet being preyed on and living in pain from the people who should have shown him love. I honestly cried when I read it. I hope they live in fear and pain for the rest of their days. I hope they are set upon in prison and I'm not sorry for feeling that way. They are the lowest of the low scum that ever walked this earth!

And the hospital staff and social services that failed him should lose their jobs too. Utterly mind boggling and heartbreaking that this should be allowed to happen.

Thedevilhasfinallycaughtupwithhim · 18/06/2026 17:46

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Nah.
Your post was callous and exemplified perfectly how disgusting this conversation has turned.

KeepPumping · 18/06/2026 17:47

Thedevilhasfinallycaughtupwithhim · 18/06/2026 17:45

No. Obviously not.

I just don’t think the logical conclusion of that is to give him to predators.

Nobody knew they were predators, one was a teacher FFS, they both look like a couple of decent friendly lads in their social media pics ( they look like evil incarnate in the mug shots though)