A baby died after being ‘smothered’ and ‘suffering non-accidental trauma and sexual abuse’ by a teacher who was adopting him, a court heard today.
But jurors were told that when the accusations were put to murder accused Jamie Varley in a police interview, he replied: Bulls***. It’s a load of rubbish’.
Pathologist Dr Alison Armour found an ‘acute upper airway obstruction’ caused the death of Preston Davey, ‘by a deliberate act of smothering with a hand or soft fabric, or by insertion of an object or objects into his mouth’.
The medical expert found the 13-month-old sustained serious ‘internal injuries’ from being ‘sexually
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