Jun 29, 2026 · 1 hr 32 min · 13 segments
Preston Davey was thirteen months old when he was placed with two men for adoption in Blackpool. Everyone who met him described him as a happy, smiley little boy. Four months later he was dead. The…
Emma KennyHostNo, I've done this.
It's my fault.
I left him.
It is, it's my fault.
My precious.
No, no, no, no, please.
No, please, no

I left him." An utterly distressing moment, watching a clearly devastated father who's rushed his child to hospital and realized that that child may not make it.

And to be fair, when I watched that video, I genuinely thought that was what was happening.

But as we all know, guys, monsters perfect their role when predatory actions finally surface.

Welcome to Bang to Rights, the deep dive crime podcast which takes you through some of the most heinous crimes the world has ever seen.

I've had a ton of you ask me to cover it, and it's one that 100% deserves covering.

And I wanted to do it as diligently as possible, so I have waited for the sentencing.

Also, I know that so many of you really struggle with child cases, but equally, if we don't talk about those cases, if we remain silent about those cases, then these kind of things have this awful repeat reality, and we don't want that to happen.

We want cases like this brought into the light so that we can understand how these things happen, the problems that led to them, and to prevent, because always, prevention lies in the patterns, and there will be those patterns in this case.
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