She said there was also evidence of emotional abuse.<\/p>\n
She referred the jury to a video they have seen of Preston being “jump scared” when Varley shouts “Boo!” to him as he falls asleep and other videos of him alone in a bath for 14 minutes.<\/p>\n
Other videos show him being spun on a park playground, his eyes rolling back in his head.<\/p>\n
“They are hard videos to watch,” she said. “They are a child having unpleasant experiences.”<\/p>\n
Gifford said the child’s response, staring blankly, not laughing or enjoying the activity, would be consistent with a sign of trauma called “frozen watchfulness”.<\/p>\n
At post-mortem, Gifford said she had identified from photographs 26 sites of injuries with 30 individual bruises, both external on the skin and below the surface, internally.<\/p>\n
These included nine bruises to the front of Preston’s head and five to the back.<\/p>\n
This was well in excess of the number a baby of this age would have and not consistent with accidents or normal domestic behaviour, she added.<\/p>\n
Varley denies 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.<\/p>\n
McGowan-Fazakerley denies allowing the death of a child, three counts of child cruelty and one count of the sexual assault of a child.<\/p>\n
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