BONUS: The Tragic Life Of Preston Davey: "You've killed him Jamie."
5/20/202615 min
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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First 90 secondsCaroline Cheetham· Host0:00
[gavel bangs] The Crime Desk, a resting podcast. [dramatic music] Welcome to The Trial UK: The Tragic Life of Preston Davey. I'm Caroline Cheatham.
Liz Hull· Host0:20
And I'm Liz Hull.
Caroline Cheetham· Host0:21
So Liz, we are releasing an extra episode. Really, we decided to do this last night, didn't we? And that's because Lancashire Police have released a video of one of Jamie Varley's police interviews. Now, we've referred to this a little bit in the last few days, and a lot of what he talks about in this police video has also been referred to in court for the last week or so, and this full video that was shown to the jury has now been released. And I suppose to sum it up, Liz, it's Jamie Varley being interviewed in June twenty twenty-five by a female detective who's obviously looking into allegations of murder and abuse of Preston Davey. And I suppose in this video, Liz, w-what we normally do with these videos is we, we release sections of it to try and illustrate what we've heard in court, and it's actually quite unusual for us to get full videos.