Hundreds expected to gather for tragic tot Preston Davey's candlelit vigil tonight at Flag Market
The tragic tot would have turned four today.
Hundreds, if not thousands of people, are expected to gather at Preston’s Flag Market this evening for tragic tot Preston Davey's candlelit vigil.
Jamie Varley, 37, was found guilty at Preston Crown Court yesterday of the murder of 13-month-old Preston after subjecting him to months of unimaginable sexual, physical and emotional abuse.
Little Preston Davey had been been placed with the couple at their home in Staining Road, Staining in April 2023 by adoption social workers at Adoption Now, who were working on behalf of Oldham Council.
But after less than four months in their care and after several hospital visits, little Preston was rushed to Blackpool Victoria Hospital on July 27, 2023 in cardiac arrest.
Despite the best efforts of medics who spent more than an hour trying to save the baby who was pronounced dead.
The former South Shore Academy teacher Varley, of Chandlers Way, Grimsargh and formerly of Staining Road, Staining has been found guilty of murder, manslaughter, two counts of assault by penetration, five counts of cruelty to a child, grievous bodily harm, sexual assault of a child, 13 counts of taking indecent photos or videos of a child, one of distributing an indecent photo of a child, to his co-accused, and one of making an indecent photo.
McGowan-Fazakerley, 32, also of of Chandlers Way, Grimsargh and formerly of Staining Road, Staining has been found guilty of allowing the death of a child, three counts of child cruelty and one count of the sexual assault of a child.
The pair will now be sentenced on Thursday.
A memorial for the tragic tot will take place from 6pm - marking what would have been and should have been his fourth birthday.
At 9pm there will be a minute’s silence followed by a piper playing in Preston’s memory.
Members of the public are being asked to "bring candles, bubbles, teddies" and "remember that sweet boy."