The daddy of a tragic tot murdered by his mom, stepfather and a youth has requested why his son needed to die in such horrifying circumstances.
In April, Angharad Williamson, 31, John Cole, 40, and a youth who can't be recognized for authorized causes had been convicted after a ten-week trial in courtroom of murdering Logan Mwangi. They're set to be sentenced at Cardiff Crown Courtroom on June 30.
The boy's physique was found within the River Ogmore, Bridgend, on the morning of July 31, 2021. He had greater than 50 exterior wounds in addition to a number of inside accidents just like these present in victims of a fall from a peak.
Logan's father, Ben Mwangi, had been denied contact together with his son since April 2019, across the time that Williamson started her relationship with Cole, Wales On-line reviews.
Talking to ITV, Mr Mwangi mentioned: “What baby has to undergo that kind of torture for such a protracted interval of the time? No, it actually doesn’t appear actual. One of many greatest questions in my entire whole life I’ll all the time be asking myself is: ‘Why? Why did this occur? Why did Logan need to die?”’
Cole was obsessive about the concept that Williamson had cheated on him with Mr Mwangi, witnesses mentioned. The defendant reportedly used a racial slur to explain his stepson and had hyperlinks to the Nationwide Entrance.
Mr Mwangi mentioned Williamson stopped him seeing Logan. “She blocked my quantity. For the previous 5 years I’ve been struggling and attempting to struggle simply to see Logan. She made my life an absolute distress. All I’ve wished to do was simply be a dad,” he mentioned.
Only a month earlier than Logan was killed final July social employees in Bridgend eliminated him from the kid safety register which means he was now not believed to be susceptible to critical hurt. However Logan had suffered “catastrophic” inside accidents in step with a “brutal and sustained assault”.
The day earlier than police discovered his physique a social employee spent 20 minutes exterior Logan’s house talking to the three defendants however didn't see or hear him. Mr Mwangi was not instructed his son was on the kid safety register and needs the legislation modified so social companies have an obligation to tell estranged mother and father.
He mentioned: “I in all probability would have tried to take him away. Why didn’t they do something to make it a protected setting for him when it clearly wasn’t?
“If I can cease this from taking place to anyone else then that would be the greatest, constructive, most constructive factor. My lasting reminiscence of him was only a blissful little boy that referred to as me ‘Daddy’.
“The fantastic recollections I've with my son won't ever be tarnished. They'll perpetually be in my coronary heart and soul. I beloved him a lot and one way or the other I've to dwell my life figuring out that I'll by no means get to see him develop as much as be the fantastic man I do know that he may very well be.”
A toddler follow evaluate has been launched into Logan’s loss of life and will likely be led by the Cwm Taf Morgannwg Safeguarding Board, which incorporates native councils and the police, probation service and NHS. An ITV documentary, The Homicide Of Logan Mwangi, was produced together with South Wales Police. It begins at 9pm on Thursday.
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