Logan’s mother, Angarad Williamson, has been told she will serve at least 28 years before being considered for parole, while her partner, John Cole, will spend at least 29 years in prison. A 14-year-old man who was also convicted of Logan’s murder said he would be held for at least 15 years. After Logan died from the kind of injuries usually found in people involved in a car accident or fall from a height, Williamson, 31, Cole, 40, and the teenage boy tried to escape justice by throwing the child’s body. on a river in the village of Sarn, in southern Wales, and called the police to report that they feared he had been abducted. Condemning them, Justice Jefford said Logan was a “wonderful child”, glamorous, talkative and artistic, who fell victim to an unprovoked, violent, savage and horrific attack. He said: “Logan was particularly vulnerable because of his age. He was five years old, he was small. He was completely defenseless. Both his mother and father were in a position of trust. They completely violated that trust and did so in a context of Logan’s dehumanization. What happened to Logan must have included horrible mental and physical pain. It is impossible to imagine the horror of a five-year-old as he was inflicted by these horrible injuries. His pain would be intense. “ Jeffford said the court had said Williamson was a “fictional mother” until she met Cole. He said: “Something changed and changed tragically. “Your relationship changed and Logan became redundant.” Williamson cried persistently during the hearing, while her fellow defendants showed little emotion. The judge said the couple’s treatment of Logan in the days before the murder, when he had Covid, was “extreme”, keeping him isolated in his room behind a baby gate and forcing him to leave when they were delivering meals. He said he believed Cole and the young man carried out the deadly attacks on Logan, but Williamson must have agreed and done nothing to protect him. The plot to cover up the murder by all three was “careful and calculated”. Angarad Williamson, left, and her partner, John Cole, right, in the seat of Cardiff Stadium. Photo: Elizabeth Cook / PA In a statement read in court, Logan’s father, Ben Mwangi, paid tribute to the “sweetest and most handsome boy”. He said: “I was at work when police came and told me about Logan’s death. I was told that his body was found in the river. I could not believe what I was hearing. I collapsed on the floor and hit my head. I felt that all the fibers of my body were dead and I could not stop crying. I could not understand how such a thing had happened to my son. I’m devastated that I could not be there to protect him. “I experience recurring nightmares. Logan comes to me to tell me that he is well and to check that I am well. He runs into my arms and I hold him tight, but then he slowly disappears. I wake up screaming and crying. ” Mwangi said that after Logan’s murder, the boy’s grandfather said he was “ready to go” and died in December 2021. He continued: “Logan was the sweetest and most handsome boy whose life was tragically cut short. The world is a colder and darker place without its warm smile and the happy energy with which it lived its life. The hole left in the hearts of all who knew him will never be filled. I loved him so much. I will never see him grow up and become the wonderful man he would be “. Prosecution Caroline Rees QC said the aggravating factors included that Logan was physically and emotionally vulnerable. The judge intervened that Logan was only 3 feet 5 inches and weighed 3 pounds. Rees said the adult defendants should have been people he could trust, but had suffered “extreme and recurring conflict” before being treated “like garbage with flies” and thrown into the river. He told the court that Cole’s most recent convictions were robbery, extortion, distortion of justice and witness intimidation, for which he was jailed for three years in 2007. Williamson was convicted of two counts of theft in 2014 and received a Community warrant. The teenager had no previous convictions. Earlier this year, a jury in Cardiff court heard that in the months before Logan’s assassination he had disappeared from the sight of authorities, with his family using the pandemic as an excuse to lock him up. An investigation has been launched into whether Logan was likely to be rescued after authorities found out he was aware of some of the injuries he suffered in the months before he died. The research will also look at what was known about Cole’s past. His violent history includes a previous attack on a child and is said to have been of interest to the National Front. The court heard that Cole hated Logan’s resemblance to his natural father, who is originally from Kenya, suggesting that racism may have played a role in his attitude towards Logan. Another issue is why the threats against Logan that the 14-year-old allegedly made in the weeks before the murder were not acted upon by the authorities. The teenager’s QC manager, John Hipkin, said he was 13 years old at the time of Logan’s death and had multiple neurodevelopmental and psychosocial difficulties and that he was “somehow” younger than his actual age.
