Mother who murdered Logan featured in a homemade slasher movie finding the body of a dead child – What We Know!

Logan Mwangi’s evil mom acted out a selfmade slasher film discovering the physique of a lifeless baby years earlier than she murdered her personal son and shamelessly shed crocodile tears whereas faking panic on a 999 name, footage which has emerged now reveals.

Video exhibits wannabe filmmaker Angharad Williamson as an adolescent discovering a lifeless member of the family on a settee after which screaming in terror at her shock discovery for an beginner horror flick for an A-level challenge whereas learning a media course in Essex.

Williamson, slimmer and with below-the shoulder brown hair, has a number of strains within the two-minute movie talking in her distinctive Essex accent. 

The beginner footage has chilling echoes of her screams down the telephone to police when she reported Logan lacking.

Hours after the homicide, Williamson, 31, referred to as 999 and cried hysterically down the telephone as she placed on a ‘callous efficiency’ to cover her data of Logan’s disappearance. 

That decision was described by prosecutor Caroline Rees QC as ‘a callous efficiency designed to cowl up her involvement in her son’s dying’.

She stated that Williamson was ‘appearing out the a part of a distressed mom whose baby has gone lacking’, including: ‘Angharad Williamson is essentially the most dramatic, wailing and shouting, enjoying the a part of a distraught mom to the total extent of her appearing talents.

‘One in all her closest mates arrives, Rhiannon Hales, and nonetheless Angharad Williamson retains up the hideous present.

‘You will note John Cole supporting Williamson in that efficiency by mentioning gates and home windows, enjoying the a part of the involved step dad regardless of it now being his case that he had dumped Logan within the river solely hours earlier.’

Logan’s merciless mom Williamson yesterday screamed ‘no, no, no’ and fell to the ground as she and her fellow accused John Cole and a 14-year-old boy who can’t be named due to his age had been discovered responsible of the kid’s homicide. 

Decide Mrs Justice Jefford sensationally needed to interrupt the jury and the clerk to inform Williamson to be quiet. 

Each Williamson and the youth had been convicted of an additional cost of perverting the course of justice – an offence Cole had admitted earlier than trial. 

Gasps and sounds of celebration had been heard from household and mates within the public gallery because the verdicts had been returned. 

Logan, a beforehand ‘smiling, cheerful little boy’, was found within the River Ogmore in Bridgend, South Wales, on July 31, 2021. 

Police discovered him partially submerged, sporting dinosaur pyjama bottoms and a Spider-Man prime solely 270 yards from his dwelling. He had suffered 56 exterior cuts and bruises, and ‘catastrophic’ inner accidents, likened to these from a high-speed street accident.

Specialists stated they might have solely been attributable to a ‘brutal and sustained assault’ within the hours, or days, earlier than his dying and had been ‘in step with baby abuse’.

Within the months and weeks main as much as his dying, Logan had been ‘dehumanised’ by his household, prosecutors stated. 

Logan’s stammer is claimed to have worsened, changing into notably unhealthy round stepfather Cole. 

The boy was stated to have moist himself extra incessantly and started self-harming.

Mates of the couple stated Cole instructed them he didn’t like Logan, and others stated his perspective modified after changing into obsessive about the concept Williamson had cheated with Mr Mwangi.

Williamson claimed that two days earlier than Logan’s physique was discovered, an argument a few spilt drink escalated and ended with Cole and the youth attacking him. 

Two days later, she phoned the police at 5.45am reporting Logan lacking 0 accusing a lady of taking him.

Police arrived on the flat to seek out Williamson hysterical, whereas Cole and the youth may very well be seen strolling within the space calling for him. Prosecutors stated this was a part of an ‘elaborate’ cover-up.

Mrs Justice Jefford adjourned the case for sentencing at a date to be fastened.

Privately-educated Williamson, the daughter of a stockbroker, claimed to be an ‘overprotective mom’ however lined up assaults and abuse of Logan by mendacity to medical doctors, police and social employees about his earlier accidents. 

CCTV from a neighbouring property captured actions from the bottom ground flat – together with Cole and the youth leaving at 2.43am to dump Logan’s physique within the river.

Only a minute after the pair left the home the CCTV confirmed lights in Logan’s bed room being turned on and somebody inside opening his bed room curtains.

Williamson claimed it couldn’t have been her as she was asleep – however she was the one grownup inside the home.

Cole and the youth had been outdoors the flat for nearly 9 minutes earlier than returning to retrieve Logan’s torn pyjama prime – which Cole stated Williamson handed to him to eliminate because it may very well be incriminating.

Within the time period the pair had been out of the home the curtains in Logan’s room are closed as soon as once more and the lights are switched off.

When Cole and the youth go away the home once more to ditch Logan’s prime they’re out of the flat for 11 minutes and 11 seconds returning at 3.27am.

In his remaining few weeks on earth Logan had turn out to be depressing and anxious – wetting himself and self-harming by pinching himself or biting his lips till they bled. 

Williamson stated her relationship with unemployed Cole was initially ‘excellent’, saying: ‘I felt like I had failed Logan as a result of his organic father wasn’t round and Jordan didn’t transform a very good particular person. 

‘I desperately needed a little bit fairytale household.’ 

She was awarded a two-bedroom council flat at 5 Decrease Llansantffraid in Sarn, Bridgend, in January 2019 – the house the place medics estimated Logan spent his tragic final hours dying in ‘excessive ache’.

In April 2019 she met 6ft 4ins and 15 stone John Cole on an evening out in The Railway pub in Bridgend city centre earlier than sleeping with him that night time.

Williamson fell pregnant nearly immediately and Cole – who lived only a 5 minute stroll from her dwelling – started a relationship regardless of him nonetheless residing along with his estranged accomplice.

Throughout her being pregnant, epileptic Williamson suffered seizures all through and moved to South Wales to stick with mum Clare who had retired to the village of St Bridge’s Main close to Bridgend so she may obtain further assist.

Logan’s father Benjamin Mwangi remained in Essex and, regardless of attempting to keep up a relationship, the couple turned estranged and finally cut up.

Shortly after Williamson – who had a part-time job working on the village submit workplace – married soldier Jordan Hunt who was primarily based at close by barracks however the marriage broke down when Hunt returned from Afghanistan with PTSD and was convicted of attacking her.

Williamson instructed the courtroom she loved her life as a single mum with Logan as she and her mom labored collectively to deliver him up.

She stated: ‘I took footage every single day, I took footage of him sneezing, of him coughing, I used to be so overjoyed by Logan. I beloved the bones of that boy.

‘My mum was like a second mum to Logan. She was nice.’

Requested about her relationship with Logan, Williamson stated: ‘It was stunning.. I’m fairly a needy emotional particular person and Logan was very cuddly, so is my mum. We had been very shut. Logan was my little sidekick. We did the whole lot collectively, he was such stunning a contented little boy.

‘He was so intelligent, he needed to discover the world and see what it was about.

‘He was so intelligent and I used to be so proud, so proud, I put his pictures up on my home windows and confirmed him off on Fb – I used to be so pleased with him.’

A self-confessed ‘true crime’ fan, Williamson discovered herself arrested over Logan’s homicide the day after his physique was discovered.

She cried within the witness field as she shouted: ‘I didn’t do it. I didn’t damage Logan,’ however the jury disagreed.

ANOTHER baby failed by the system: Logan Mwangi was overwhelmed, starved and tortured earlier than being murdered by his mom, stepfather and boy, 14 – as chilling CCTV exhibits killers carrying five-year-old’s physique and dumping it in river

By Henry Martin for MailOnline

Logan Mwangi by no means stood an opportunity as he was stored prisoner and tortured in his dwelling, with social employees lacking essential alternatives to avoid wasting the little boy earlier than he was murdered by his mom, stepfather and a 14-year-old boy.

John Cole, 40, and Angharad Williamson, 31, of Sarn, Bridgend, and a teenage boy, who can’t be named due to his age, had been convicted of murdering Logan at Cardiff Crown Court docket.

On the morning of July 31 final yr the as soon as ‘smiling, cheerful little boy’, was discovered by police simply 250 metres from his dwelling submerged within the River Ogmore, sporting a pair of dinosaur pyjama bottoms and a Spider-Man prime.

Within the months and weeks main as much as his dying, Logan had been ‘dehumanised’ by his household. His stammer worsened, changing into notably unhealthy round Cole, and he moist himself extra incessantly and started self-harming.

However in one more astonishing failing by social companies, employees missed at the least two alternatives to rescue the schoolboy from the clutches of his mother and father, who ‘stored him prisoner’ in his darkish bed room – likened to a ‘dungeon’ – with a child gate barring him from leaving after testing constructive for coronavirus on July 20.

The case of Logan’s homicide has chilling echoes of the tragic deaths of 16-month-old Star Hobson, six-year-old Arthur Labinjo-Hughes and two-year-old Kyrell Matthews. 

All three youngsters had been murdered after struggling months of systematic abuse by the hands of their depraved mother and father and repeatedly let down by companies which missed possibilities to intervene. Each Arthur and Logan had been put in higher hazard when the nation was put into lockdown.  

Social employees visited Logan’s home the day earlier than he died and took no motion in Might 2021 when the boy burned his neck on a scorching bathtub faucet. Their investigation relied on pictures of the faucet and Logan’s accidents. 

Social companies had additionally been conscious that the boy’s stepfather Cole had a felony document for assault, housebreaking, possessing hashish, resisting a police officer, blackmail and perverting the course of justice.

And police did not take motion a yr earlier, when the five-year-old broke his arm. It emerged he had been pushed down the steps by the 14-year-old who later took half in killing him. 

Cole, a former Nationwide Entrance member who nicknamed the five-year-old ‘Coco Pop’, pressured the boy to eat Weetabix on household ‘takeaway nights’ whereas they feasted on KFC, and would tease him concerning the meals he was lacking out on.

Cole, who stood at 6ft4ins tall and weighed 15 stone, would tower over the 3ft 5ins, 3st Logan and use army-style punishments on him, forcing the kid to do press-ups till he was in tears and collapse on the ground. Logan was additionally made to face outdoors the home in simply his pyjamas, neighbours stated.  

He held ‘lengthy standing racist beliefs’ which may have been ‘related to his motives’ within the assaults on Logan, and he even stopped him from seeing his actual father and grandmother, the courtroom heard.

The 14-year-old boy, who seemed disinterested as he tucked into bars of chocolate as he watched the homicide trial, had threatened to kill his foster household after watching The Purge and requested ladies to play a homicide recreation the place he would put their our bodies in black luggage. 

‘Even the canine was afraid of him’ after he attacked the household pet by pulling it up by its again legs following an operation and allegedly spraying deodorant into its eyes, the courtroom heard.   

Logan had suffered 56 exterior cuts and bruises, and ‘catastrophic’ inner accidents, which had been likened to a high-speed street accident.

Cole was caught on CCTV carrying Logan’s limp physique from the flat throughout a enjoying subject in the direction of the river the place he was discovered by police shortly after daybreak on July 31. His mom was caught on digital camera feigning crocodile tears and ignorance after killing him. 

Specialists stated the accidents may have solely been attributable to a ‘brutal and sustained assault’ inflicted on Logan within the hours, or days, prior his dying. 

Additionally they stated the accidents had been ‘in step with baby abuse’.

Williamson screamed ‘no, no, no’ because the verdicts had been returned.

Decide Mrs Justice Jefford needed to interrupt the jury and the clerk to inform Williamson to be quiet earlier than the decision towards the youth was given.

‘Out of respect to your son and the youth please be quiet for the verdicts,’ she stated. 

Mates of the couple stated Cole instructed them he didn’t like Logan, and others stated his perspective modified after changing into obsessive about the concept Williamson had cheated with Logan’s father Benjamin Mwangi.

Medics made a safeguarding referral to the police after Logan suffered a damaged arm in August 2020, with Williamson saying he had fallen down the steps.

She took him to hospital the day after the incident and stated she thought he had solely dislocated his shoulder and had tried to place it again.

Later she instructed a pal the youth had confessed to pushing Logan down the steps but it surely was not till January final yr she instructed the police.

By March, as a consequence of issues over Cole, Logan and his youthful sibling had been assigned their very own social employee, Gaynor Rush.

In June, a month earlier than Logan died, the household had been faraway from the kid safety register – which means it was believed there was not a threat of great hurt.

A foster household the youth stayed with claimed to have heard him say he needed to kill Logan.

They stated they reported the teenager’s ‘want for violence’ and threats to hurt Logan to his social employee Debbie Williams however that she appeared unconcerned. Ms Williams denies this.

A assist employee additionally heard the youth, singing: ‘I like children, I f****** love children, I like to punch children within the head, it’s orgasmic.’

Weeks earlier than he died, Logan suffered a damaged collarbone however he by no means received medical therapy.

On July 20 Logan examined constructive for Covid-19 and he was shut in his bed room with a child gate barring him from leaving.

Ms Rees stated: ‘He had been stored like a prisoner in his small bed room within the flat you noticed, a room likened by Williamson as a dungeon.’

Williamson claimed that two days earlier than Logan’s physique was discovered an argument a few spilt drink escalated and ended with Cole and the youth attacking him.

She accused Cole of punching Logan twice within the abdomen and ordering the youth to ‘sweep’ Logan if he stuttered or flinched.

Moments later the youth carried out the martial arts-style manoeuvre, kicking his legs out from below him whereas utilizing his hand to slam his head to the bottom.

Williamson stated she screamed for them to cease however stated Cole replied: ‘The one means this boy understands is ache.’

Two days later, she phoned the police at 5.45am reporting Logan lacking – claiming to have awoken to seek out him gone and accusing a lady of taking him.

Police arrived on the flat to seek out Williamson hysterical, whereas Cole and the youth may very well be seen strolling across the space calling for him.

Footage exhibits Williamson screaming at Cole ‘Why am I not allowed to see my very own organic son?’

Whereas pacing her kitchen, she yells: ‘He’s unconscious, why is he unconscious?’

Gesturing in the direction of cops earlier than falling to the bottom, she continues: ‘All I’m getting is solutions like this. 

‘Why is nobody telling me what’s happening? He’s my child, what’s happening?’

She is later seen stood on her doorstep, saying: ‘If he’s unconscious he wants me. 

‘He wants heat garments. He wants mum. I really feel so ineffective. That is all my fault.’

Prosecutors stated this was a part of an ‘elaborate’ cover-up concocted by the defendants and all three had been accused of perverting the course of justice, of which Williamson and youth had been convicted.

Cole, who was captured on CCTV carrying Logan’s physique to the river from the flat, whereas being adopted by the youth, admitted the cost.

He claimed he woke to the sound of Williamson screaming Logan was lifeless and he panicked.

CCTV exhibits a bed room gentle being switched on and off whereas Cole and the youth had been out – the prosecution used this proof to indicate Williamson was awake and conscious Logan was lifeless.

Cole stated after dumping the boy’s physique, Williamson despatched him out once more to cover his ripped pyjama prime.

The youth by no means gave proof within the trial.

The choose adjourned the case for sentencing at a date to be fastened.

The three defendants had been stated to have covered-up the horrific crime in an ‘elaborate charade’ by claiming Logan had gone lacking or been kidnapped whereas in isolation. 

Williamson had denied any involvement in her son’s dying, saying she slept the entire night time by way of and woke to seek out him lacking.

Williamson and the youth denied homicide and perverting the course of justice. 

Cole denied homicide however admitted perverting the course of justice.

Williamson and Cole additionally denied inflicting or permitting the dying of a kid. 

The little boy was murdered after he caught Covid, earlier than Williamson and Cole dumped his physique in a river as in the event that they had been ‘fly-tipping’ garbage, the courtroom was instructed.  

Williamson appeared distressed and as a abstract of the proof towards her and the 2 different defendants was described by Caroline Rees QC.

She started to cry, changing into extra upset because the jury was proven an image of Logan and the circumstances of the five-year-old’s dying was described.  

A jury heard Williamson dialled 999 claiming her son had vanished within the night time and stated he’d been kidnapped from his mattress after discovering the backyard gate open.

Williamson was heard calling Logan’s identify through the 999 name and her accomplice and the teenage defendant went round asking neighbours if that they had seen him. 

Logan was discovered sporting solely mis-matched pyjamas within the river by police a short while later, taken to the city’s Princess of Wales Hospital, the place he was confirmed lifeless.   

The courtroom heard that, on the afternoon of July 30, a social employee made an unscheduled go to to Cole and Williamson’s handle however was instructed she couldn’t see Logan as a result of he had examined constructive for Covid-19 and was in self-isolation. 

The trial had heard that Logan was ‘dehumanised’ in his remaining days by his mom, stepfather and the 14-year-old boy.

In her closing speech to the jury, Prosecutor Caroline Rees QC stated he had been stored ‘like a prisoner in his small bed room – a room described by Angharad Williamson as ”like a dungeon” with the curtains closed and a barred baby’s gate stopping him from shifting about the remainder of the flat’.

She added: ‘That little boy was being made to face a wall as meals was being delivered so different members of the home didn’t catch Covid.

‘What should have he considered the best way his life was in these 10 days? He was dehumanised by every of the defendants.’

Ms Rees stated that Logan had turn out to be ‘anxious, wetting himself, harming himself by pinching or biting himself’ in his final weeks. 

However she added that as a substitute of seeing to Logan’s wants, Williamson and Cole turned ‘irritated’ and ‘irritated’ by him and would punish him additional.  

Ms Rees instructed the jury at Cardiff Crown Court docket that after killing Logan, the three defendants labored on ‘cleansing up the scene and placing a path in place to steer the police up the unsuitable monitor’.

Ms Rees stated Williamson and Cole had ‘labored collectively’ up to now to cowl up Logan’s accidents together with an obvious dislocated shoulder and a burn to his neck.

She stated: ‘They put their very own self-interests first forward of the wants of Logan.

‘Working collectively to lie to guard themselves within the context of an harm to Logan, and never solely did they lie however they managed to persuade medical workers, social employees and even the police.’

‘Their motive for mendacity is to cowl up their very own involvement.’

In an announcement learn on the steps of the courtroom, Logan’s father paid tribute to him as ‘the sweetest and most stunning boy’.

Mr Mwangi stated: ‘Logan was the sweetest and most stunning boy, whose life has been tragically reduce brief. The world is a colder and darker place with out his heat smile and the comfortable vitality with which he lived his life.

‘The outlet that has been left within the hearts of all who knew and beloved him won’t ever be crammed. No period of time can heal the injuries which have been inflicted.’

He continued: ‘The great recollections I’ve of my son won’t ever be tarnished, they’ll endlessly be in my coronary heart and soul.

‘I beloved him a lot and in some way I’ve to stay my life realizing that I’ll by no means get to see him develop as much as be the great man he would have been.

‘I want to thank South Wales Police and the prosecution group who’ve labored tirelessly to deliver these accountable for my son’s homicide to courtroom.

‘From all of us, thanks for doing a tremendous job and for getting justice for my son.’