Logan Mwangi’s evil mom acted out a home made slasher film discovering the physique of a useless little one 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 reveals wannabe filmmaker Angharad Williamson as a youngster discovering a useless 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 loss of life’.

Video reveals wannabe filmmaker Angharad Williamson as a youngster discovering a useless 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


Williamson has a number of strains within the two-minute movie talking in her distinctive Essex accent

Little Logan Mwangi was found in a river near his residence after being reported lacking by his mom
She mentioned that Williamson was ‘appearing out the a part of a distressed mom whose little one has gone lacking’, including: ‘Angharad Williamson is essentially the most dramatic, wailing and shouting, taking part in the a part of a distraught mom to the total extent of her appearing talents.
‘Certainly one of her closest associates arrives, Rhiannon Hales, and nonetheless Angharad Williamson retains up the hideous present.
‘You will note John Cole supporting Williamson in that efficiency by stating gates and home windows, taking part in 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 have been discovered responsible of the kid’s homicide.
Choose Mrs Justice Jefford sensationally needed to interrupt the jury and the clerk to inform Williamson to be quiet.
Each Williamson and the youth have 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 have been heard from household and associates within the public gallery because the verdicts have 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 residence. He had suffered 56 exterior cuts and bruises, and ‘catastrophic’ inner accidents, likened to these from a high-speed highway accident.
Consultants mentioned they might have solely been brought on by a ‘brutal and sustained assault’ within the hours, or days, earlier than his loss of life and have been ‘according to little one abuse’.
Within the months and weeks main as much as his loss of life, Logan had been ‘dehumanised’ by his household, prosecutors mentioned.
Logan’s stammer is claimed to have worsened, turning into notably dangerous round stepfather Cole.
The boy was mentioned to have moist himself extra incessantly and commenced self-harming.
Mates of the couple mentioned Cole informed them he didn’t like Logan, and others mentioned his angle modified after turning into obsessive about the thought Williamson had cheated with Mr Mwangi.
Williamson claimed that two days earlier than Logan’s physique was discovered, an argument a couple of 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 girl of taking him.
Police arrived on the flat to search out Williamson hysterical, whereas Cole and the youth may very well be seen strolling within the space calling for him. Prosecutors mentioned 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 flooring 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 have been outdoors the flat for nearly 9 minutes earlier than returning to retrieve Logan’s torn pyjama prime – which Cole mentioned Williamson handed to him to eliminate because it may very well be incriminating.
Within the time period the pair have 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 grow to be depressing and anxious – wetting himself and self-harming by pinching himself or biting his lips till they bled.
Williamson mentioned her relationship with unemployed Cole was initially ‘good’, saying: ‘I felt like I had failed Logan as a result of his organic father wasn’t round and Jordan did not change into particular person.
‘I desperately needed a bit of 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 virtually right away and Cole – who lived only a 5 minute stroll from her residence – started a relationship regardless of him nonetheless residing together 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 might obtain additional assist.
Logan’s father Benjamin Mwangi remained in Essex and, regardless of making an attempt to keep up a relationship, the couple turned estranged and finally break up.
Shortly after Williamson – who had a part-time job working on the village publish workplace – married soldier Jordan Hunt who was based mostly at close by barracks however the marriage broke down when Hunt returned from Afghanistan with PTSD and was convicted of attacking her.
Williamson informed the court docket she loved her life as a single mum with Logan as she and her mom labored collectively to convey him up.
She mentioned: ‘I took footage day by 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 mentioned: ‘It was lovely.. I am fairly a needy emotional particular person and Logan was very cuddly, so is my mum. We have been very shut. Logan was my little sidekick. We did the whole lot collectively, he was such lovely 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 images 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 did not do it. I did not damage Logan,’ however the jury disagreed.

Footage reveals Williamson screaming at Cole ‘Why am I not allowed to see my very own organic son?’ Whereas pacing her kitchen (above), she yells: ‘He’s unconscious, why is he unconscious?’

She is later seen stood on her doorstep, saying: ‘If he’s unconscious he wants me. He wants heat garments. He wants mum.’ She continues: ‘I really feel so ineffective. That is all my fault’

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


Pictured left: Logan Mwangi sporting his dinosaur pyjamas. Proper: The ripped garments which have been recovered from the scene

Cole and Williamson, of Sarn, Bridgend, have been convicted of killing Logan Mwangi by a jury of 5 males and 7 girls at Cardiff Crown Court docket on Thursday after 5 hours of deliberation

Cole was caught on CCTV carrying Logan’s limp physique from the flat throughout a taking part in discipline in direction of the River Ogmore (circled, together with the home) the place he was discovered by police shortly after daybreak on July 31
ANOTHER little one failed by the system: Logan Mwangi was crushed, starved and tortured earlier than being murdered by his mom, stepfather and boy, 14 – as chilling CCTV reveals 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 residence, 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, have been convicted of murdering Logan at Cardiff Crown Court docket.
On the morning of July 31 final 12 months the as soon as ‘smiling, cheerful little boy’, was discovered by police simply 250 metres from his residence 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 loss of life, Logan had been ‘dehumanised’ by his household. His stammer worsened, turning into notably dangerous round Cole, and he moist himself extra incessantly and commenced self-harming.
However in yet one more astonishing failing by social providers, employees missed not less than 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 kids have 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 probabilities to intervene. Each Arthur and Logan have been put in larger 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 Could 2021 when the boy burned his neck on a sizzling tub faucet. Their investigation relied on pictures of the faucet and Logan’s accidents.
Social providers had additionally been conscious that the boy’s stepfather Cole had a prison file for assault, housebreaking, possessing hashish, resisting a police officer, blackmail and perverting the course of justice.
And police did not take motion a 12 months 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’, compelled 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 mentioned.
He held ‘lengthy standing racist beliefs’ which might have been ‘related to his motives’ within the assaults on Logan, and he even stopped him from seeing his actual father and grandmother, the court docket heard.
The 14-year-old boy, who regarded 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 court docket heard.
Logan had suffered 56 exterior cuts and bruises, and ‘catastrophic’ inner accidents, which have been likened to a high-speed highway accident.
Cole was caught on CCTV carrying Logan’s limp physique from the flat throughout a taking part in discipline in direction of the river the place he was discovered by police shortly after daybreak on July 31. His mom was caught on digicam feigning crocodile tears and ignorance after killing him.
Consultants mentioned the accidents might have solely been brought on by a ‘brutal and sustained assault’ inflicted on Logan within the hours, or days, prior his loss of life.
In addition they mentioned the accidents have been ‘according to little one abuse’.
Williamson screamed ‘no, no, no’ because the verdicts have been returned.
Choose Mrs Justice Jefford needed to interrupt the jury and the clerk to inform Williamson to be quiet earlier than the decision in opposition to the youth was given.
‘Out of respect in your son and the youth please be quiet for the verdicts,’ she mentioned.

Logan Mwangi’s mom Angharad Williamson, 31, (left) went on trial at Cardiff Crown Court docket together with her accomplice John Cole (proper), 40, and a 14-year-old boy


Logan (pictured) was discovered useless within the River Ogmore in Pandy Park, round 250 metres from the flat the place he lived together with his household in Decrease Llansantffraid, Sarn, Bridgend on the morning of July 31, 2021

Cole was caught on CCTV carrying Logan’s limp physique from the flat throughout a taking part in discipline in direction of the river the place he was discovered by police shortly after daybreak on July 31

Logan, a beforehand ‘smiling, cheerful little boy’, was found within the River Ogmore (circled, together with the home) in Pandy Park, Bridgend, South Wales, on the morning of July 31 2021

The five-year-old boy had additionally been ‘stored like a prisoner’ in his small bed room – likened by his mom to a ‘dungeon’ – with a child gate barring him from leaving after testing constructive for coronavirus on July 20

Police and forensics are pictured on the scene of the homicide. The case of Logan’s homicide has chilling echoes of the horrific killings of 16-month-old Star Hobson and six-year-old Arthur Labinjo-Hughes

Logan’s organic father Benjamin Mwangi studying a press release outdoors Cardiff Crown Court docket this afternoon
Mates of the couple mentioned Cole informed them he didn’t like Logan, and others mentioned his angle modified after turning into obsessive about the thought 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 mentioned she thought he had solely dislocated his shoulder and had tried to place it again.
Later she informed a good friend the youth had confessed to pushing Logan down the steps nevertheless it was not till January final 12 months she informed the police.
By March, on account of considerations 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 have been faraway from the kid safety register – which means it was believed there was not a threat of serious hurt.
A foster household the youth stayed with claimed to have heard him say he needed to kill Logan.
They mentioned they reported the teenager’s ‘need for violence’ and threats to hurt Logan to his social employee Debbie Williams however that she appeared unconcerned. Ms Williams denies this.
A help employee additionally heard the youth, singing: ‘I like children, I f****** love children, I like to punch children within the head, it is orgasmic.’
Weeks earlier than he died, Logan suffered a damaged collarbone however he by no means bought medical remedy.
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 mentioned: ‘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 couple of 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 underneath him whereas utilizing his hand to slam his head to the bottom.
Williamson mentioned she screamed for them to cease however mentioned Cole replied: ‘The one method this boy understands is ache.’
Two days later, she phoned the police at 5.45am reporting Logan lacking – claiming to have awoken to search out him gone and accusing a girl of taking him.
Police arrived on the flat to search out Williamson hysterical, whereas Cole and the youth may very well be seen strolling across the space calling for him.
Footage reveals 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 direction of cops earlier than falling to the bottom, she continues: ‘All I am getting is solutions like this.
‘Why is nobody telling me what is going on on? He is my child, what is going on on?’
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 mentioned this was a part of an ‘elaborate’ cover-up concocted by the defendants and all three have been accused of perverting the course of justice, of which Williamson and youth have 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 useless and he panicked.
CCTV reveals a bed room mild being switched on and off whereas Cole and the youth have been out – the prosecution used this proof to point out Williamson was awake and conscious Logan was useless.
Cole mentioned 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 decide adjourned the case for sentencing at a date to be fastened.
The three defendants have been mentioned 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 loss of life, saying she slept the entire night time by way of and woke to search 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 loss of life 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 have been ‘fly-tipping’ garbage, the court docket was informed.

Pictured: Floral tributes and teddy bears left in Sarn on August 2


A autopsy examination was carried out on August 2. Cole, Williamson (proper) and the youth confronted a jury over the boy’s loss of life

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 have been ‘fly-tipping’ garbage, a court docket heard

Logan was discovered by officers on the riverbank on July 31 and brought to the city’s Princess of Wales Hospital, the place he was confirmed useless. Pictured: Police on the scene

Pictured: Angharad Williamson (left) and John Cole (proper) pictured in court docket sketches
Williamson appeared distressed and as a abstract of the proof in opposition to her and the 2 different defendants was described by Caroline Rees QC.
She started to cry, turning into extra upset because the jury was proven an image of Logan and the circumstances of the five-year-old’s loss of life was described.
A jury heard Williamson dialled 999 claiming her son had vanished within the night time and mentioned he’d been kidnapped from his mattress after discovering the backyard gate open.
Williamson was heard calling Logan’s title in the course of the 999 name and her accomplice and the teenage defendant went round asking neighbours if they’d 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 useless.
The court docket heard that, on the afternoon of July 30, a social employee made an unscheduled go to to Cole and Williamson’s deal with however was informed 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 mentioned 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 kid’s gate stopping him from transferring 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 mentioned that Logan had grow 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 ‘aggravated’ by him and would punish him additional.
Ms Rees informed 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 guide the police up the improper monitor’.
Ms Rees mentioned Williamson and Cole had ‘labored collectively’ previously to cowl up Logan’s accidents together with an obvious dislocated shoulder and a burn to his neck.
She mentioned: ‘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 a press release learn on the steps of the court docket, Logan’s father paid tribute to him as ‘the sweetest and most lovely boy’.
Mr Mwangi mentioned: ‘Logan was the sweetest and most lovely boy, whose life has been tragically lower brief. The world is a colder and darker place with out his heat smile and the glad vitality with which he lived his life.
‘The opening 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 fantastic recollections I’ve of my son won’t ever be tarnished, they are going to perpetually be in my coronary heart and soul.
‘I beloved him a lot and one way or the other I’ve to reside my life realizing that I’ll by no means get to see him develop as much as be the fantastic man he would have been.
‘I want to thank South Wales Police and the prosecution group who’ve labored tirelessly to convey these accountable for my son’s homicide to court docket.
‘From all of us, thanks for doing a tremendous job and for getting justice for my son.’