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Killer, 14, who said ‘I love to punch kids’

- By Liz Perkins

CRAIG Mulligan at first claimed he did not know what happened to Logan – and blamed his stepmother.

But he later admitted he woke to hear Williamson say: “Logan is dead.” He told investigat­ors: “I woke up in the middle of the night, then dad came into the living room with me.

“I know I weren’t meant to do it but we grabbed some of the rubbish in the back garden and we’ve chucked it in the river. Now it was all in black bags and everything. I don’t know what was in the bags – I can’t remember.

“Then about 20 minutes after, we went back out to check whether they’d gone down. We didn’t say anything – we were trying to be as quiet as we could because we didn’t want to wake Logan or Angharad. I don’t know if Logan was still there.”

In a later interview, after Williamson had told detectives that Cole and Mulligan had abused Logan, the latter said: “Can you tell my mum to **** off for me?”

Scared

When the detective asked why, he added: “Because she’s trying to blame me and my dad for everything when we haven’t done anything. Now I’m just sick of this. She’s just saying whatever she wants to get out of the **** .”

He called Cole “dad” and Williamson “mum” but would not refer to Logan as his brother. Instead he branded him as “the five-year-old”.

Former foster parents said they could not cope with his threatenin­g and abusive behaviour, which led to them requesting Bridgend Social services to remove him. The foster father said: “I recall saying to myself he was going to do something bad.

“We have been fostering for the best part of 50 years. It was the only time I felt scared for my family.”

Mulligan also picked on other youngsters in the foster home, tortured the family’s dog and asked two young girls if they wanted to play a “murder game” and tried to make them get inside black bin bags.

Chillingly, he said: “I ******* love kids. I love to punch kids in the head.”

 ?? ?? Chilling...police footage of Craig Mulligan
Chilling...police footage of Craig Mulligan

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