Mother of Logan Mwangi ‘lied over role in the five-year-old’s death to save herself’, court hears
Mother of Logan Mwangi ‘lied over her role in the five-year-old’s death to save herself’, court hears
Logan Mwangi was found dead having suffered 56 injuries to his head and bodyThe five-year-old boy suffered catastrophic injuries before being dumped Jury at Cardiff Crown Court today heard mother ‘lied over role’ in son’s deathWilliamson, John Cole and a 14-year-old boy are on trial over Logan’s death
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A mother accused of murdering her five-year-old son ‘lied over her role’ in Logan Mwangi’s death to ‘save herself’, a court has heard.
Logan was found dead on July 31 last year in the River Ogmore near Pandy Park in Bridgend, just 400 metres from his home – with 56 injuries to his three-stone body.
Angharad Williamson, 31, is accused of murdering the five-year-old and then covering up his death by allegedly destroying evidence.
Williamson is on trial at Cardiff Crown Court with her partner John Cole, 40, and a 14-year-old boy accused of killing him.
During his closing speech to the jury, Cole’s barrister David Elias QC said Williamson had repeatedly changed her accounts surrounding Logan’s death.
Mr Elias said Williamson had lied over threats made to her by Cole and about an alleged attack Cole and the youth carried out on Logan.
Angharad Williamson is accused of murdering the five-year-old and then covering up his death by allegedly destroying evidence
Logan Mwangi (Pictured) was found dead on July 31 last year in the River Ogmore near Pandy Park in Bridgend, just 400 metres from his home – with 56 injuries to his three-stone body
Logan Mwangi’s mother Angharad Williamson, 31, (left) is on trial at Cardiff Crown Court with her partner John Cole (right), 40, and a 14-year-old boy accused of killing him
He said: ‘She says she was planning to leave Mr Cole but she has to say that because she has been backed into a corner.
‘She didn’t do anything because it didn’t happen.’
He told the jury: ‘Ask yourselves who is manipulative in this case? Who is not telling the truth?’
Mr Elias said mum Williamson’s claims she slept throughout the night of Logan’s murder was undone by CCTV evidence showing she was awake.
Mr Elias said that while she was awake Williamson handed Cole a pyjama top belonging to Logan and told him to ‘get rid of it’.
Mr Elias said: ‘She was clearly up and awake. She gave John Cole that top to get rid of.
‘If she was up and awake – as Logan’s natural birth mother – and lying to you about that, then what else is she lying about?
During his closing speech to the jury, Cole’s barrister David Elias QC said Williamson (Pictured with Cole and her son Logan) had repeatedly changed her accounts surrounding Logan’s death
Logan (pictured) was found dead in the River Ogmore in Pandy Park, around 250 metres from the flat where he lived with his family in Lower Llansantffraid, Sarn, Bridgend on the morning of July 31, 2021
‘If Angharad Williamson is lying about being up and awake there is only one reason for covering it up as far as she’s concerned and it’s not to save John Cole or the youth. The natural birth mother of Logan is trying to save herself.’
Logan was found dead in River Ogmore in Sarn, Bridgend, just 400 yards from the family home having been allegedly ‘fly-tipped like rubbish’.
Medical experts said Logan’s injuries were such that they were compared to a ‘fall from a great height’ or a ‘high velocity road traffic collision’.
Cole and the youth are accused of moving Logan’s body to the river while Williamson allegedly tried to remove incriminating evidence from the house and wash bloodstained bedsheets.
Williamson denies any involvement in her son’s death saying she slept the whole night through and woke to find him missing.
Williamson and the youth deny murder and perverting the course of justice. Cole denies murder but admits perverting the course of justice.
Williamson and Cole also deny causing or allowing the death of a child.
The trial, in front of Mrs Justice Jefford, continues.
