With respectable, professional jobs, Jamie Varley and John McGowan-Fazakerley impressed the social workers who approved them to adopt a baby, sailing through the checks.

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT. John McGowan-Fazakerley, 32, and Jamie Varley, 37, have now been found guilty following the death of their adopted baby son, Preston Davey

Varley presented himself in court as a doting dad but prosecution said he used adopted boy as a sexual ‘plaything’