The 13-month-old boy, whom the pair had not finished adopting, died in 2023.
British secondary school teacher Jamie Varley has been charged with the murder and sexual assault of a 13-month-old boy that he and his boyfriend John McGowan-Fazakerley were in the process of adopting.
The couple appeared in Preston Crown Court on Monday, nearly two years after the baby boy, Preston Davey, was pronounced dead at Blackpool Victoria Hospital in 2023. Both defendants were initially arrested, but later released on bail.
Lancashire Police later re-arrested and charged Varley with a slew of offenses including murder, two counts of assault by penetration of a male child under 13 and five counts of child cruelty. He also stands accused of multiple counts of taking indecent photographs, distributing an image and possession of an extreme pornographic image of the victim, as well as other offenses.
His co-defendant McGowan-Fazakerley has been charged with causing and allowing the death of a child, sexual assault of a child, and two counts of cruelty to a child, the police said.
The authorities noted that all of the charges were related to the 13-month-old victim.
Judge Robert Altham, who presided at Monday’s brief hearing, set the trial date for April 14, 2026. Both defendants were remanded into custody and will remain in prison awaiting a plea hearing in October, according to local daily The Blackpool Gazette.
The judge noted that while he regretted the delay, it would ensure that all expert witnesses were ready for future proceedings, the newspaper wrote on Monday.
Varley has been suspended from work since 2023, according to the Cidari Multi Academy Trust, which now runs the school where he was employed at the time of the alleged crime. “He has not been permitted onto, or attended school premises, or been permitted to contact pupils or colleagues,” the organization told the Blackpool Gazette in a statement.
The trust is reportedly “considering its position in relation” to Varley’s employment. “Jamie was suspended on full pay as we are legally obliged to do,” Cidari told the local newspaper when asked whether Varley has been receiving a salary since his 2023 arrest.
Sweet innocent baby may you Rest In Peace. 😢💔
Read this on RT. Utterly horrific. Lock them up and throw away the key. No, better yet, release them into general population and let karma, take its course.
please provide links.
https://swentr.site/news/619470-british-gay-couple-baby-murder/
I consider it child abuse allowing any child to be raised by gay couples.
Ditto.
Is this the tip of the iceberg that is criminals and perverts in the teaching profession? Looking at the woke agenda being promoted these days it’s looking pretty sick.
Not just in the teaching profession- freakin EVERYWHERE friend. The gates of hell were let open about a decade ago.
Gays largely produce no children. They multiply by corrupting other people’s.
Stand guard over yours with your head held high. Don’t bend, don’t break, no matter how many ists and isms they want to throw at you.
Keep your children away from the genetic dead ends.
They will be locked away among normal men, i hope. They will know what to do with them.
Insanity to let gay men adopt children. They already are devious.
The same happened recently in France.
The State should be hold responsible. Where are the ” feminists” ?
Remember folks, gay pedos are tier one and are your betters.
A black kid too, did they buy it? did money change hands? who was the mother?
I was so disgusted by this I actually can’t put it into words. Gay people should not be able to adopt children . this is why we need the death penalty
One of them probably self identified as non-binary or as a women. Still getting paid for nearly 2 years while suspended. Hideous and heinous.
Adopted by gays, a troubling proportion of boys seem to be guaranteed to get molested. Adopted by lesbians, it’s broken bones, concussions and brain damage. Them’s the stats – hate the truth all you want but it’s happening.
Our society needs to stop handing innocent children to the mentally ill. Every child needs BOTH a father and a mother under the same roof. Every conceivable study and body of data bears this out. Our laws need to revert back 100 years.
If you don’t want to be straight, you don’t get to have what straight people have. No kids for you. Sorry not sorry.
And if you’re caught fiddling with a child, you get a short drop and a sudden stop. One way ticket.
Exactly!
And I bet the social worker who approved this placement has pronouns in his or her email signature
Look i don’t actually have a problem with 2 lesbians adopting, but two gay dudes? Come on man that should be illegal
You are part of the problem.
Ditto.
Yeah, you sexist!