Ms Whyte says: ‘Given the findings on Preston’s body, the evidence which John doesn’t dispute is that that must have been by way of a deliberate act, because it wasn’t drowning, you have not described an accident. You’ve done something to the child to prevent him breathing.’
‘That is not correct’, Mr Varley replied.
‘That’s the evidence,’ she says.
‘That’s incorrect’’, he said.
Ms Whyte says: ‘That’s the evidence that John accepts and you don’t.’
‘I don’t because I was the person in the house that day. I know what happened,’ he says.
‘If that evidence is right that means you have lied to him in the profoundest way,’ she tells him.
Mr Varley says: ‘I think it’s easy for someone to accept that when they don’t know the full information and they weren’t there but that’s not the case.’
‘You know he doesn’t want to believe you are capable of that. You know that,’ Ms Whyte says.
‘I know that John knows I am not capable of that’, he replies.
‘The trust he has placed in you has been misplaced because you have not told him the truth’, Ms Whyte says.
Mr Varley replies: ‘I have told John the truth. If I felt for one second it was down to me I would have taken full responsibility. I wouldn’t have put John through this’, he says.
‘You have’, Ms Whyte says.
‘I haven’t’, Mr Varley replies.
