{"id":646066,"date":"2026-06-18T21:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T21:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/646066\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T21:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T21:45:10","slug":"teacher-sentenced-to-life-for-abuse-and-murder-of-baby-preston-davey-channel-4-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/646066\/","title":{"rendered":"Teacher sentenced to life for abuse and murder of baby Preston Davey \u2013 Channel 4 News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A teacher who sexually abused and murdered his adopted baby boy has been given a whole life order, meaning he will spend the rest of his life behind bars.<\/p>\n<p>13-month-old Preston Davey died in July 2023 after being subjected to months of physical, sexual and emotional abuse at the hands of Jamie Varley and his partner John McGowan-Fazakerley.<\/p>\n<p>Warning, there are highly distressing details in this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teacher who sexually abused and murdered his adopted baby boy has been given a whole life order,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-646066","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\/646066","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=646066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}