Former inmate Ricky Killeen, who served time in the same high-security jail as Soham murderer Ian Huntley, has detailed the relentless torment he believes child killer Jamie Varley will endure at HMP Wakefield, known as "Monster Mansion." Varley, 32, was found guilty earlier this month of sexually abusing and murdering his adopted 13-month-old son, Preston Davey, and was handed a whole life order, meaning he will never be released.
Varley's Crimes and Sentence
Varley subjected Preston to an appalling catalogue of physical, sexual and emotional abuse. He claimed the baby accidentally drowned in the bath, but after an eight-week trial at Preston Crown Court, a jury found him guilty. His partner, John McGowan-Fazakerley, was sentenced to 25 years for child cruelty, sexual abuse and allowing the death of a child. Varley is reported to have been sent to HMP Wakefield, a notorious prison in West Yorkshire, where he received a "traditional prisoners' welcome" and spent his first night "sobbing and quaking."
Psychological Warfare Behind Bars
Speaking on his Behind Bars TV channel on YouTube, Killeen said: "He will spend the rest of his sorry days, sh*****g himself, petrified, waiting for that fateful day when karma comes a-knocking and looking for him." Killeen claimed Varley would have been placed on an ACCT (Assessment, Care in Custody and Teamwork), a process used to support prisoners at risk of suicide or self-harm. "When Varley asks for help, and he starts talking to the screws out the door, then obviously they've got a duty because he's on an ACCT to make sure he doesn't do anything to himself. So they have got to talk to him and mother the little wrongun and make sure he doesn't do anything to himself. But he is going to be living in misery for the rest of his life. He will be feeling despair, anxiety, hopelessness."
Killeen suggested Varley would have "sleepless nights" and be "watched round the clock," while also facing abuse from other inmates. "So they will be tormenting and torturing him and giving him the utmost of grief." He added that there were "more ways to skin a cat" than being openly aggressive: "There's ways where they can irritate him, banging little things outside his door and getting under his skin. He is going to live out the rest of his life in a sick, sorry world where he belongs."
Bounty on His Head
A source told The Daily Star: "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. 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."
