The Daily Mail's Crime Desk has published a promotional article marking the conviction of Jamie Varley for the murder of his 13-month-old adopted son, Preston Davey, who died in hospital in July 2023 after months of abuse. The piece serves mainly to direct readers to two exclusive follow-up stories available through the outlet's Crime Desk newsletter, framing the case as one that has appalled Britain and raising the question of how such abuse was allowed to happen.

Preston was subjected to sustained physical, sexual and emotional abuse over the four months before his death at the hands of his adoptive fathers, Jamie Varley and John McGowan-Fazakerley. The newsletter content promoted here includes an interview with the family's neighbours, who are struggling to process what they witnessed, and an account by veteran crime reporter Liz Hull describing why the images and video shown during the trial were among the most disturbing she has encountered in a courtroom. The article does not itself answer the "chilling unanswered question" it references, instead reserving that detail for newsletter subscribers.