The video and images stretch over a period of three minutes and 12 seconds, with the child’s head and arms over the top horizontal bar of his cot and his neck resting on the bar.<\/p>\n
His body is apparently partially suspended, his legs in a “frog like” position and the child seemingly asleep or unconscious.<\/p>\n
“This is very unsafe and in my view dangerous,” Armour said.<\/p>\n
“That’s going to inhibit your ability to breathe.”<\/p>\n
In one still photograph, Preston’s head is in a slightly different position with fluid coming from his mouth.<\/p>\n
Armour continued: “Preston’s tongue is protruding, it’s blue and also his lips appear blue, consistent with a lack of oxygen in the blood.”<\/p>\n
Wright said: “In terms of a child in that position for that length of time, how safe or otherwise is such a position?”<\/p>\n
Armour said: “This is a very prolonged period of time for a child to be in such an unsafe position.”<\/p>\n
Four days later, at about 18:20 BST on 27 July 2023, the defendants rushed Preston unconscious from their home to Blackpool Victoria Hospital.<\/p>\n
Medics worked for nearly an hour to resuscitate the child but could not save him.<\/p>\n
Varley said he had left the child alone in the bath for three or four minutes before he returned and the baby was partially submerged.<\/p>\n
Armour, who carried out the post-mortem examination, said people who drown often swallow water but she found no water in Preston’s stomach.<\/p>\n
Armour concluded the cause of death was an upper airway obstruction, leading to Preston’s collapse by a deliberate act of smothering, or an object or objects inserted into his mouth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The video and images stretch over a period of three minutes and 12 seconds, with the child’s head…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-582529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}