The nature and scale of the abuse Preston Davey suffered was horrific. His killers showed a level of callousness and cruelty which is hard to comprehend.
A Serious Child Safeguarding Practice Review will now consider whether there were professional failings and whether opportunities to protect Preston were missed. While that review must be allowed to run its course, the facts already in the public domain raise serious questions about whether more could have been done to identify the abuse and intervene sooner.
Whatever comes from the review we will wait and see, but the senselessness of what that incident boy lived through and died as a result of is overwhelming. He deserved so much better.
Jim McMahon OBE MP 