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Three weeks after Preston Davey died, Jamie Varley and his boyfriend moved house.
Boasting four bedrooms and manicured grounds, the £450,000 new-build detached property on the outskirts of a sought-after village near Preston, Lancashire, was supposed to be their ‘forever home’.
Fast forward three years and today the living arrangements of the perverted 37-year-old former teacher couldn’t be more different.
Jailed for life after being convicted of sexually abusing and murdering his 13-month-old adopted son, the Daily Mail can reveal Varley has now been moved to HMP Wakefield, a Category A prison where the roster of inmates is such that it’s known as Monster Mansion.
His arrival did not go unnoticed at the West Yorkshire jail, with fellow inmates giving the convicted killer a ‘traditional prisoners’ welcome’, hammering on cell bars and threatening retribution for the vile abuse he inflicted on the helpless child.
According to reports, it left Varley ‘sobbing and quaking’ in his cell as the reality of his future life behind bars dawned on him.
‘There’s a bounty on his head, everyone wants to be the one to hurt him first, and he was made very aware of that as he entered the prison,’ a source said.
‘The other prisoners knew he was coming and they waited for him. They want him scared and they want to make his time inside as awful as they can – and now he knows he has a lot of time inside to serve. He is never getting out, there is no way out of this hell for him.’
While currently being held in segregation and subjected to round-the-clock supervision to prevent him harming himself, time will not diminish the risks he faces, because in the company he’s now keeping, nobody is ever truly safe.
Jamie Varley, a 37-year-old former teacher, has been jailed for life and is set to serve his sentence in HMP Wakefield
Varley was convicted of the murder and sexual assault of 13-month-old Preston Davey while in the process of adopting the child
Sex offenders – or ‘nonces’ as they are known in prison – are viewed as the lowest of the low.
The fact that Varley’s offences involved a defenceless baby will mean he will have a target on his back until his dying day.
And violence is a brutal fact of life at Wakefield, with two bloody killings in the past year alone.
Last November, three convicted killers ambushed Kyle Bevan, who was being held at Wakefield after murdering his partner’s two-year-old daughter.
Chilling prison CCTV footage, released last week after the trio were convicted of Bevan’s murder, showed them laughing and joking before they stormed his cell. The 33-year-old was held down and stabbed 25 times.
They then tucked him up in his bed and left him to bleed to death.
A month earlier, Lostprophets frontman Ian Watkins, who was serving a 29-year jail sentence for child sex offences including the attempted rape of a baby, was fatally stabbed in the neck at the jail. It was not the first time the 48-year-old had been attacked.
‘It’s not like one-on-one, let’s have a fight,’ the former rock star had previously observed of what happens if you fall out with someone at the prison. With eerie prescience, he added: ‘The chances are, without my knowledge, someone would sneak up behind me and cut my throat . . . Stuff like that, you don’t see it coming.’
According to retired prison governor Vanessa Frake-Harris MBE, Varley will now face the same daily battle to avoid falling victim to a ‘targeted execution’.
‘He will be targeted by a wide cross-section of the prison population, from general population inmates looking for “street cred” to highly violent Category A offenders who view murdering child abusers as a form of distorted vigilante justice,’ she told the Daily Mail.
‘At maximum security prisons such as Wakefield, many inmates are serving natural [whole] life or exceedingly long tariffs. Because they face no prospect of imminent release, the disciplinary deterrents are effectively nullified.’
Ms Frake-Harris predicted Varley would face ‘non-stop psychological warfare’ at Wakefield.
‘There will immediately be loud, systemic chanting across the wings, constant death threats, and being loudly labelled a “nonce” or “beast” every time he is moved outside his cell.
‘Though Wakefield historically houses a high concentration of sex offenders and child abusers, it remains a pressure cooker of extreme violence.’
She added: ‘If he is exposed to the main wings, the threat of physical harm is lethal.
‘Common tactics include “jugging” [throwing boiling water mixed with sugar over an inmate to cause deep, melting burns] or makeshift shanks fashioned from everyday items like razor blades melted into toothbrushes.
‘To keep him alive, prison authorities will likely have to place him on a Vulnerable Prisoner Unit or under strict Rule 45 segregation for his own protection. This means spending 23 hours a day locked in a single cell, entirely isolated from human contact, as any integration into communal areas carries an immediate risk of death.
‘Because Varley’s sentence guarantees he will die behind bars, the threat to his life is a permanent, multi-decade reality.’
Mark Fairhurst, head of the Prison Officers’ Association, agreed, describing Wakefield as ‘one of the most dangerous prisons in the country’.
‘I would imagine its newest high-profile prisoner will be a major target for individuals who find his offence as repulsive as the general public,’ he said. ‘If I was him I would stay in segregation.’
Set against the drab backdrop of buildings that date back to the Victorian era, the reputation of Monster Mansion is built on its roll-call of inmates past and present.
Of its 630 prisoners, two-thirds have been convicted of sexual offences, with many locked up for life. Those serving time include child killers Roy Whiting and Mark Bridger, as well as Jeremy Bamber, who murdered five members of his family at White House Farm, Essex, in 1985.
Harold Shipman served time there, as did Robert Maudsley, Britain’s longest-serving prisoner, who also murdered two inmates while at Wakefield.
Until his recent transfer, Maudsley was such a security risk he was held in an underground glass and Perspex cell, which some believe was the inspiration for Hannibal Lecter’s dungeon cage in film The Silence of the Lambs.
Another Wakefield prisoner is Mick Philpott, who killed six of his 17 children in a house blaze – and was recently left ‘battered and bruised’ after a beating in his cell by a fellow inmate.
Last year, the growing tensions at the jail were highlighted by an official inspection that warned violence ‘had increased markedly’, with serious assaults up by almost 75 per cent.
Such was the concern that a follow-up inspection was carried out in April. It noted that certain changes had been made to the prisoner population, with younger inmates moved out and more sex offenders brought in. Previously, those convicted of sex crimes had been held alongside those convicted of other serious offences. That policy has now been reversed, with those at most risk being held in D and C wings.
HMP Wakefield is a Category A prison in West Yorkshire, where the roster of inmates is such that it’s known as Monster Mansion
Kyle Bevan, who was being held at Wakefield after murdering his partner’s two-year-old daughter, was killed in prison last November
Exercise periods are now being delivered to groups from the same wing, rather than from mixed cohorts, and cell doors are locked during communal activities, enabling staff to supervise prisoners more effectively.
But while inmates and staff said they felt safer since the changes, inspectors still felt not enough had been done to address the issues of attacks on inmates.
They also found insufficient progress had been made to improve infrastructure. The report said ‘wings were shabby, showers were in very poor condition, water boilers and washing machines were subject to regular breakdowns, and electrical issues sometimes affected emergency cell call bells’.
For even a hardened criminal, life in Wakefield is hard. For Varley, an outwardly respectable secondary school teacher who boasted in court he had no previous convictions, ‘not even a parking ticket’, it will be unimaginable.
‘In cases like this, the prison is balancing duties that often pull in opposite directions – protecting the individual from others, and protecting him from himself,’ Professor Ian Acheson, a former prison governor with experience in managing high risk sex offenders, told the Daily Mail yesterday.
‘The first weeks will be about containment and assessment – who he mixes with, what intelligence says about threats, and how he copes under pressure.
‘Any “advice” he gets won’t come in the form of a friendly briefing.
‘Officers will set boundaries, psychologists will assess risk, but the informal rules of survival are learned quickly – and often brutally – from other prisoners.’
The greater immediate risk, he says, may be that of self-harm.
‘High-profile offenders often experience acute shock once the reality of custody bites,’ he added. ‘This is one of the most reviled men in Britain sent to prison for the first time . . . The stark reality is a short future punctuated by terror, hypervigilance and ended with violence.’
Professor Acheson added: ‘[Varley] will almost certainly be subject to the prison service’s own suicide prevention management strategy called ACCT.
‘The immediate action plan part of that is designed to stabilise mood and build hope. Given his offence and sentence, that’s a huge challenge in itself. That level of supervision can’t last for ever, but it will be intense at the start.’
Similar challenges will face those guarding Varley’s former partner, John McGowan-Fazakerley.
The exact whereabouts of the 32-year-old remain unknown, but insiders claim he is likely to be at either HMP Manchester, known as Strangeways, or HMP Full Sutton.
He was jailed for 25 years after being found guilty of sexual abuse, child cruelty and allowing little Preston Davey’s death.
Sources say the pair will be kept apart for the remainder of their sentences and that McGowan-Fazakerley will face similar risks to Varley.
A prison insider said: ‘There has been a lot of coverage and focus on Varley, because ultimately he killed little Preston and has been done for his murder, but McGowan-Fazakerley is not off the hook. He also did unspeakable acts to that baby, and he also has a bounty on his head.’
McGowan-Fazakerley will be held in a high security jail initially, followed by a succession of lower security prisons.
Even in those lower security jails, he will almost certainly be held on the vulnerable prisoners wings, alongside other sex offenders whose crimes would make them targets if they were to be placed in other parts of the jail.
The terrible circumstances of baby Preston’s death were outlined during the eight-week trial at Preston Crown Court.
It heard how he had been taken from his mother Sarah Davey – herself a convicted killer – five days after his birth.
He thrived with foster parents before being placed with Varley, who had taken a year off work for the adoption in April 2023.
In the four months he lived with the same-sex couple, Preston was routinely assaulted and abused.
The infant had been taken to hospital – including with suspicious bruises and a broken elbow – three times. He was seen by a ‘battery of professionals’ and police were even called in the weeks before his death. Yet no one raised the alarm.
A post-mortem found 40 external and internal injuries, including some consistent with sexual abuse. On the day Preston died, Varley had rushed the child to hospital claiming he had drowned.
The teacher duly put on a theatrical show of hysterics in front of medics, blaming himself for leaving him in the bath, and crying: ‘I’m going to hell.’
This week, he finally arrived.
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