Preston Davey trial LIVE as teacher charged with baby’s murder accused of ‘buying time’ in hospital

Peter Wright KC is continuing his cross-examination.

“About the hair drying I asked you about,” he begins. “I asked you about the contents of the video from body-worn footage at the hospital.

“You said you dried your hair… Let’s consider for a moment what you were describing. You’ve had a shower.

“Quickly then gone out to dry yourself by getting the towel on the landing. You don’t use a towel that is found in the bath subsequently. When you’re on the landing you can’t see Preston. (Correct).

“You can hear him playing with his toys. You then dry your hair. Why not do that in the bathroom with him in view? Why not go out, grab your towel, and return to the bathroom to dry yourself while supervising him? Why did you leave him unsupervised?”

Mr Varley responds: “I believe he would be ok while I quickly dried my hair.”

“Is it the fact that none of this happened in the way that you have sought to portray it?” Mr Wright asks.

“That is not true,” Mr Varley says.

“I was asking about user actions on your handset,” Mr Wright says. “We were dealing about the gap of 7 minutes, the 41 second elapse of time. You’ll want to keep an eye on him now after recording the video.”

“Yes I would,” Mr Varley says.

“He would be the centre of your attention,” Mr Wright adds.

“Yes he was,” Mr Varley says.

“Snapchat is closed at 16:46. 16:47, you open your calculator, why?” Mr Wright asks.

“I believe it was me trying to time how long he was having his seizure,” Mr Varley responds.

“If that’s so, you don’t spend very long recording do you? You close it in ten seconds. It wasn’t much of an effort to calculate the length of time,” Mr Wright asks.

“That’s a calculator not the timer,” Mr varley says.

“I believe I was looking for my stopwatch. It was closed 10 seconds later. What aware you really doing in that time?” Mr Wright asks.

“Comforting him,” Mr Varley says.