Broken bones and abuse before killing
HERE is a timeline of the key events in the life of Logan Mwangi, from his birth up until the discovery of his body in July 2021.
March 15, 2016: Logan Mwangi is born in the Princess of Wales Hospital, Bridgend, to Angharad Williamson and Benjamin Mwangi. Their relationship quickly breaks down and Mr Mwangi moves back to Brentwood, Essex.
June, 2016: Mr Mwangi visits Logan in Bridgend for their first father’s day together and they have regular contact. Williamson and Logan move in with Mr Mwangi in Essex but by August have returned to Wales.
By the end of the year, Williamson had married another man, but the relationship became violent. During this time, contact between Logan and his father ceases.
2019: Contact between Logan and his father resumes. In April, Williamson takes Logan to visit Mr Mwangi and his family in Essex. This was the last time Mr Mwangi saw Logan, as Williamson was in a relationship with Cole and was preventing access.
August 16, 2020: Logan is taken to hospital by his mother, Williamson, who said he suffered a dislocated shoulder when he fell down the stairs the day before. Doctors examining Logan find he has a broken arm. The hospital makes a referral to social services and Williamson gives a statement to the police.
January 21, 2021: Williamson calls 101 and tells the operator Craig Mulligan – Cole’s stepson – had confessed to pushing Logan down the stairs when he fractured his arm.
June, 2021: Social workers remove Logan from the child protection register.
July, 2021: At some point during the weeks before his death, Logan suffered a broken collarbone. There are no records of the injury being treated.
July 20, 2021: Logan tests positive for Covid-19 and has to self-isolate.
July 29, 2021: Logan is allegedly seriously assaulted by both Cole and Mulligan, an incident which Williamson claimed included Logan being punched in the stomach by Cole.
July 30, 2021: Williamson allegedly lifts Logan up forcefully by his pyjama top, causing it to rip, and shouts at him to “tell the truth”. The same day, social worker Deborah Williams visits the flat but is denied entry, as Logan has Covid-19. She stays for 20 minutes and leaves without seeing or hearing Logan.
July 31, 2021, 2.30am: CCTV shows Cole carrying Logan’s body out of the flat and towards the river, while being followed by Mulligan. At about 5.45am Williamson makes a 999 call to police, claiming to have woken to find Logan missing.
Two police officers searching the nearby park area just after 6am discover Logan’s body in the River Ogmore.