133: Little Boy Lost (Craig Mulligan)

In the early morning hours of July 31, 2021, 5-year-old Logan Mwangi was found dead and 13-year-old Craig Mulligan was arrested for his murder, along with with his guardian John Cole and Logan's mother Angharad Williamson, in Bridgend, South Wales.

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Episode Transcript

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Just so you know, this showis built scary stuff. So don't say
I didn't warn you. Guys,I remember, don't be scared. M

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Episode one thirty three, Little BoyLost War Baby. Here with another episode
of Murderous Miners. Hey, Leveley'ssummer break is over and we're back.
So let's start with a quick updateon episode sixty one, Ethan's Laws.
I told you about fourteen year oldDamien Hoshels of Wisconsin, who was accused

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of murdering his seven year old cousin, Ethan Hoscholtz in April two thousand and
eighteen. In February two thousand andnineteen, the teen was charged with first
degree reckless homicide, three counts ofchild abuse, and three counts of substantial
battery. Ethan had been home withhis older cousin, Damien, who now

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stands accused of subjecting the boy tohours of physically torturous punishment and abuse that
ultimately led to his death, allallegedly at the direction of Damien's father.
Ethan's great uncle, Timothy D.Me And is the son of thirty eight
year old Tina McKiever Haschultz and fiftyyear old Timothy Hoschultz, who were seven

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year old Ethan's court appointed guardians andprosecutors, alleged that they played a part
in the boy's ultimate death, eventhough they weren't home at the time.
Tina mckever Hoscholtz has already been foundguilty of felony failure to prevent mental harm
to a child and felony child abuse, receiving five years in prison. On

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March twelfth, two thousand and twentyone, Timothy Hoscholtz was arrested and charged
with felony murder, child abuse,battery, and contributing to the delinquency of
a minor causing death. In lateJune two thousand and twenty one, a
then seventeen year old Damien Hoscholtz pulledguilty to first degree reckless homicide and had
his six remaining charges dropped. InSeptember two thousand and twenty one, he

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received twenty years in prison for Athen'smurder, followed by ten years of extended
supervision and an order of no contactwith miners or with any of Ethan's siblings.
The team has since appealed, makinghim unavailable to testify in his father
Timothy's trial, which has now beenpostponed at least until the son's appeal has

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been resolved. The man had beenset to go to trial starting on December
sixth, two thousand and twenty one, but his son would have had to
invoke his Fifth Amendment right to notincriminate himself, as his testimony could go
on to be used against him inhis own appeals proceedings. After being in
custody for more than three years,his bail was reduced, and reports indicate

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that his bond was posted on Maytwenty six, two thousand and twenty two,
when he was released with an anglemonitor. Pre trial motions continue in
his case, which will likely resumein full force when Damian's appeal has been
resolved. This week, on MurderousMiners, we're back in Wales's UK and
looking at a recent case that broughtto my mind, that of Ethan Hoscholtz's

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the murder of five year old LoganMwangy in late July two thousand and twenty
one. Reports indicate that Logan's wasa brutal, violent death inflicted by abuse,
so please be advised. As inEthan's case, some of logan Mwangi's
convicted killers are also related to him, but this time it was the boy's

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very own mother and Harrod Williamson.I drew parallels in my mind because the
adults in each case tried to deflectpersonal responsibility and shift blame solely on to
their juvenile code defendants. In thiscase, Craig Mulligan. Reports refer to
him as Logan's quote step brother,although the third killer, forty year old

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John J. Cole, was notMulligan's father but his mother's former boyfriend,
while Logan was the son of Cole'scurrent partner, thirty two year old and
Harrod Williamson. Extensive in depth reportby Whales Online and the BBC, plus
the ITV documentary The Murder of LoganMwangi made this episode possible. Let's start

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way back in October two thousand andseven when Craig Mulligan was born in Coventry,
England. When he was five,his biological father was killed in a
car accident, but by then hisbiological mother was already in a relationship with
John Cole. During their relationship,Cole's rap sheet expanded to include convictions for

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crimes such as common assault, resistingor obstructing a constable, burglary, theft,
handling stolen goods, going equipped fortheft, possession of a bladed article,
criminal damage, possession of cannabis,resisting a police officer, intimidation of
a witness, battery, blackmail andperverting the course of justice. In two

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thousand and nineteen, after being withCraig Mulligan's mother for more than ten years,
Cole met a woman at a pubwho was a decade younger than him
named ang Herod Williamson and began arelationship with her. According to Wales Online,
Logan's mother was born in London andwent to private school as the daughter
of two stockbrokers. Following her graduation, she enrolled in film school, but

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ran afoul with the law after takingher mother's car and also using her credit
cards without her permission. One dayafter turning twenty five, she gave birth
to her only child, Logan,in March two thousand and sixteen, a
child she'd had with a man namedBen Muwanghi. He later recalled being the

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first person to hold Logan. Thecouple didn't stay together, and he explained
later that quote she blocked my numberfor the past pretty much five years.
I've been struggling to try and fightjust to see Logan. She made my
life an absolute misery. All I'vewanted to do, you know, just
be a dad. Williamson went onto marry a soldier who was stationed nearby,

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though they divorced soon after. Sheand Logan moved back in with her
mother in Bridge End, South Wales, and the two women worked together to
raise him up, while Ben Mwanghi, who lived almost four hours away in
Essex, England, was only allowedto see his son a couple of times
throughout his entire life. In Januarytwo thousand and nineteen, Williamson secured public

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housing and moved into her own twobedroom apartment in Bridge End, and a
few months later in April j Colecame to stay. Williamson had non epileptic
seizure disorder that began in pregnancy thatby then had made it unsafe for her
to work, so she collected disability. Her mother called her her best friend,

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but also referred to her as amelodramatic person, while teachers at Logan
school called her quote overemotional, overfamiliar, overprotective, and generally volatile.
Logan however, was remembered as aquote happy, jolly little kid and a
quote loving, kind, polite littleboy who was quote good, behaved and

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listened. It was following a visitto Logan's father in Essex in the spring
of two thousand and nineteen that tensionsbegan to rise, according to Williamson,
who said that when they returned home, Cole was cold to her and assumed
she'd been inappropriate with her ex boyfriend. She said later that quote, he
was very cold to me. Ifelt like I was being interrogated a lot.

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Williamson went on to describe Cole repeatedlyquestioning little Logan about the events of
the visit, claiming that he wouldask the boy if his parents had been
kissing. Later, she would sayshe was aware that her son was being
quote picked on by her boyfriend andadmitted she did nothing about it. Meanwhile,
Cole continued to be a part ofCraig Mulligan's life even after he left

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the boy's mother for Williamson in twothousand and nineteen. In August two thousand
and twenty, almost a year beforeMulligan came to live with them, he
reportedly pushed Logan down a flight ofstairs, resulting in the toddler fracturing his
arm, an incident that Williamson claimednot to know the truth about for several

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months. Instead of taking her sonto receive medical treatment, she reportedly told
police later that quote, I decidedI could pop Logan's arm back in place.
I took a firm hold of Logan'sarm, pulled it straight, and
twisted it back. I put itback in place and heard a click.
Logan was in pain when it clickedback in place, but it felt better

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and he stopped crying. At thetime, I thought I was doing the
right thing by putting his arm backin place, but I now realized it
was a mistake. She changed herstory, however, a few months later,
in January two thousand and twenty one, now telling police over the phone
that it had actually been a pushby a then twelve year old Craig Mulligan

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that had broken her son's arm backin August, not an accidental fall.
Mulligan had been living with his motherup until then, but by January two
thousand and twenty one, he'd beenplaced in the care of the Bridge and
County Borough Council, reportedly because hismother attacked and assaulted him. She was
consequently involuntarily committed under the Mental HealthAct. Other reports revealed that she allegedly

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faked a cancer diagnosis, and asa result of these incidents, Mulligan was
removed from her care. By then, the thirteen year old, who had
obtained the level of green Belt andthe martial art of muy Thai, was
reportedly referred to as quote manipulative andas quote having a desire for violence.
He was known to use a babyvoice if he got into trouble, and

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he had a history of attacking otherstudents without cause. While in foster care,
he was said to have constantly talkedabout his favorite movie series, The
Purge, and even told his fosterfamily that he was going to kill them
all when the new installment in thefilm franchise was released. They said he
was known to assault little kids inthe neighborhood and had even abused their dog

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by spring deodorant in his eyes andby handling him by his hind legs.
The daughter of the foster parents reportedthat Mulligan had tried to get her little
cousins to play quote a murder gamein the woods, telling them that he
was going to put them into blacktrash bags, which would eventually be how
Logan Muwangi was found. She claimedto have reported such incidents to Mulligan's social

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worker, but said that the womanquote brushed it off as if it was
nothing. The social workers said thatduring her banter with Mulligan, he tended
to use foul language and would eventell her to f off, though she
considered this behavior to be conversational anda result of their friendly relationship. She
did, however, end up ameeting that at times the team went quote

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too far. Though Logan's murder tookplace only a handful of days after Mulligan
joined the family, the little boy'sabuse and his quote stepbrother's participation in it
had been going on for years.At the time of Logan's murder, Mulligan
was only referring to him as quotethe five year old, and said repeatedly

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in the weeks leading up to itthat he wanted to kill the little boy.
As far as Logan's abuse is concerned, it speculated that Cole's dislike of
his girlfriend's child was racial in nature, as the boy's father is black and
Cole is reportedly quote very racist toAsian or Black people, or any people
who are different. The man fixatedon Logan's stutter and gave him the humiliating

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nickname of Coco Pop due to hisskin tone. Cole is also reportedly a
former member of the National Front,a far right fascist political organization in the
United Kingdom. The prosecutor would laterstate that quote Cole didn't like Logan,
treated him unkindly and viewed him differentlybecause he held quote longstanding racist beliefs.

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The couple's friends, relatives, andothers also bore witness to the continual abuse
of Logan Mwangi, with a friendof Williamson's testifying that Cole had once told
her flat out that he didn't likethe boy, but that quote he would
always love Ang Harriet even if hedidn't love Logan. Another friend recounted seeing
Logan being punished at the age ofthree in two thousand and nineteen. Over

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time, the friend recalled, Loganhad become quote withdrawn, lost visible weight.
At the time, his complexion wasquite pale, his demeanor was very
down and quiet. He was becomingmore withdrawn because he was being punished all
the time. Staff at his schooleven noticed a change both in Logan's demeanor
and in his physical appearance, ashe'd been quote losing weight and having dark

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circles around his eyes. His stutterwas worsening two, and he had bathroom
accidents, after which he requested thathis soiled clothes be thrown away at school.
These incidents occurred before Logan was pusheddown the stairs and fractured his humorous
and in the months that followed,neighbors continued to be subjected to all manner

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of loud outbursts from the home.There were reports of shouting that neighbors soon
came to realize was Logan being yelledat by Cole and Williamson, whose tone
was often described as quote aggressive andnasty. In March two thousand and twenty
one, four months before Logan wasmurdered, he was put on the child

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protection register because people were worried abouthow Cole and Mulligan were treating him,
and a social worker was supposed toshow up every week and a half to
check on the boy. Logan.Social workers said that his mother seemed to
quote a door and only want thebest for her s. Cole, she
said, though, was intimidating atfirst, but over time the relationship got

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better, he was busy trying toget custody of Mulligan right at this time,
as the teen had already been infoster care for a few months.
Also in June two thousand and twentyone, Logan was moved from the child
Protection register and put on a Childin Kneed plan instead, indicating that he
was no longer at immediate risk,but that he continued to need intervention to

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aid in his development. Cole wasgranted custody of Craig Mulligan the following month,
with the man claiming that he wasnot forewarned that the teen had been
saying that he wanted to kill Loganor that he'd had issues with his foster
family. Mulligan moved into Williamson's homepermanently on July twenty sixth, the two
thousand and twenty one and five yearold Logan was last seen alive by someone

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outside the family the following day.He was then diagnosed with COVID nineteen and
forced to quarantine alone in his room. When I finally reach the end of
another crazy day, don't be alarmedif I sneak away and grab a few
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began brewing a few days later whena neighbor reported seeing Mulligan trying to keep

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a crying Williamson from leaving the propertyon July twenty ninth, two thousand and
twenty one. The neighbor recalled herbeing quote hysterical and telling Mulligan that he
was making a scene. The teenappeared quote desperate to get his new stepmother
back inside of their house. Williamsonlater explained that she was attempting to flee

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because Cole and Mulligan were violently abusingher son with punches to the stomach and
by sweeping his legs and knocking himto the floor. The following afternoon,
on July thirtieth, two thousand andtwenty one, Mulligan's social worker stopped by,
at which time the teen informed herthat she could f off. Cole
and Williamson kept her from entering thehouse because Logan was quarantined, but she

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did speak to them for roughly twentyminutes. In regards to the rest of
that day, Cole later admitted toquote clipping Logan on the back of his
head with his hand that night overan argument about a bath, and said
that Williamson had grabbed her son bythe collar of his pajama shirt and yelled
in his face. Security camera footagefrom a residence behind their home indicates that

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several hours later, at two fortythree am, j Cole carried the lifeless,
dangling body of five year old LoganMwangi away from the home inside a
black trash bag. The light wason in Logan's bedroom and the security camera
also showed the curtain being opened oneminute after Cole and Mulligan carried Logan's body

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away into the night. Their streetfaces a large open green field divided by
some woods that line the trail ofthe river Ogmore, encompassed by Panty Park,
which residents can easily access. Inthe footage, a figure that is
alleged to be thirteen year old CraigMulligan is seen by Cole's side, their

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images back lit by the outdoor securitylighting. They walked along the river and
discarded Logan's body in it, closeto the train bridge and near to a
sore pipe. The video shows thepair arriving back at the house at two
fifty one am, before they're recordedleaving for a second time at three sixteen

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AM to toss Logan's ripped pajama topinto the woods. They returned home for
the final time at three twenty sevenAM, and Logan's bedroom lights switched off
for the rest of the night atthree thirty one. Not too long after,
at a round to five am,a neighbor distinctly heard quote bickering and

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a hysterical woman yelling Logan's name,Amon saying quote, what have you done
with my son? Where is myson? The back door is wide open?
About forty five minutes later, atfive forty six am on July thirty
first, two thousand and twenty one, and Harrod Williamson called police to report
that her five year old son,Logan was missing, referencing Mulligan's mother several

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times, seemingly trying to implicate herin a retaliation kidnapping. Ah you funny
and not make a breath? Whendid you? I don't think it just
got lost. Join Logan. Makea breath. He's fine and he's gone.
Can you see it? He Nogan? Do you to speak to me?

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Not to shout? He no,it's really full on and it's really
what's his name? Is his name? Logan? Logan? He's fine?
Did he say? Oh? Pleasesay I mean what he looks like?
Please given a little meek t waysboys, just police finding the job is

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on sho okay, is anybody elsethere with any other adults in the house?
Are any of the doors or windows? Open doors? Windows? What's
a poem? I told where youwhat takes? And I know that it's

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fine, right, fine, freeso I can get the information I need.
My black gate is on my backgas black. Where does the back
gate lead at the I don't knowwhat the road is called? That's fine,
leave the road. Does a postfor fields or anything like that?

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Okay, I'll walk. I'm rollingup it now it is. Don't cree.
What's your name? What's him?Now? What's your name? Your
name is Image? I really needyou to just take the breath for a
second, okay, a hyperventilate.I know that it's very, very scary.

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I need what to say in thehouse. So who's run out after
Logan? No? Your partner house? Okay, So dad's gone out looking?
Yeah, what's dad's name? JohnCole? He stepp Dad, But
virtually police began their search by fivefifty five am, and when they arrived,

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Cole and Mulligan were out searching thetree line and could be heard on
security cameras searching and calling out Logan'sname. The officer who located Logan's body
said quote, Logan was laying onhis right side in an open fetal position.
He was submerged under the water.I could see he had an injury
to the left side of his face. His eyes were open, his body

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was stiff, his lips were blue. Immediately the opinion Logan was deceased.
He was transported to the Princess ofWales Hospital and Bridge End, where he
was pronounced dead at seven fifteen am. Logan had a laceration on his forehead
along with fifty five other identifiable injuries, and there was nothing to indicate that

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the five year old had drowned.Instead, there was evidence of blunt force
trauma and quote a forceful assault madeup of a blow or blows, a
kick or kicks, or impact orimpacts with a weapon. His injuries were
described as catastrophic and included a tornvowel, a lacerated liver, and damage

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to his small intestine. The pathologistsrevealed that Logan had widespread contusions to his
scalp and head, bleeding inside theskull, and extensive brain trauma, some
of which likely came from previous episodesof abuse. The child's collar bone was
in the process of improperly healing froma previous fracture. Logan's injuries were so

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catastrophic that doctors likened to them toquote a fall from a great height or
a high speed car crash, andhis cause of death was listed as blunt
forced abdominal injury, cerebral injury,and traumatic brain injury. Bodycams worn by
the officers captured a distraught and hystericaland herod Williamson, and Cole reported that

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she'd suffered at least one seizure earlyon in the day. Investigators who interacted
with the trio once Logan went missinghad rather interesting observations about the behavior of
Mulligan, Williamson, and Cole,who were all dealing with the situation quite
differently. One officer said about Williamsonthat quote, although she did seem to

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be wailing a lot, making noisesof crying or sobbing, there were very
little or no tears during the timeI was with her. She told police
after Logan's body was found that shehad quote failed to keep her son safe
and therefore should be arrested. Thefollowing day, she told her mother the
same thing, and her prophecy wouldsoon be realized. A friend of Cole's

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later described receiving a phone call fromthe man on August first, two thousand
and twenty one, which he thoughtwas about Logan, where Cole said,
quote, I brought him up sincehe was a baby. What was I
supposed to do? But in realityhe was talking about Craig Mulligan. It
was the discovery of the neighbor's CCTVfootage that helped investigators push back against the

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trio's accounts of that night, asCoal can be seen carrying what is believed
to be Logan's body to the riverin a black bag, accompanied by the
stepson who wanted the little boy dead. Plus there was the fact that Logan
had not drowned, and at sixtwenty pm on August first, two thousand
and twenty one, Mulligan, Cole, and Williamson were arrested at their home.

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Trona was a tomb for them,and I still on your phone.
He's down right, so I visitDumberlain. Okay, okay, right?
Do you want need to ask asuspicion of me? Okay, you don't
have to say anything, but mayhow many defense if you do not mention
one question? Something anything you dosay may be given an evidence. I
guess Okay, it's just part ofthe best. So I haven't anything wrong.

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Okay, where is Logan? Whereis he still? He's still with
us? Some more, he's stillhe's still in the hospital the d What
happened to him? I can't explainanything further at the moment. Why is
nobody talking to me? It's supposedto be helping find out what happened,
not risking me when I'm telling himwhat it's funny? What is your phone

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with you? Guys helping me?Had I understand you're upset? I understand
dead. Okay, I'm Hannah.We understand you very upset. We've got
invested, we got I'm just Coleasked police. So am I solely being

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charged with murder? Just me?While Mulligan was combative and cursed the arresting
officers as he was taken into custody. At a different point, he told
an employee that quote, I ain'tletting my dad take the blame. No
way. I might just plead guiltynext week. My solicitor knows all about
my mental state, and I forgetstuff. Mulligan said that he had nothing

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to do with Logan's death, andthat he'd only gone out with coal that
night because he thought the man wasillicitly getting rid of bags full of fly
addled garbage. In his second interview, he said that Williamson had been awake
all night and acting erratically, andthat she kept him out of Logan's room
when he'd tried to enter. Heexplained that he hadn't mentioned this before because

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quote, I thought it was adream. I was trying to see because
I heard her say he's dead,and I wanted to see if he was
okay, and he wasn't. Mulliganwas adamant that Williamson was saying whatever she
could come up with to get herselfat a jail. Cole told police that
the jail that quote, the thingis, I didn't kill Logan. I
heard Craig reciting a rap song sayingI like kids, I want to punch

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and kick them. I've got amoral dilemma. Do I go down for
murder or protect my son. Whenfurther interrogated, he claimed that he woke
up to Williamson's screaming that Logan wasdead, going on to describe the cause
as quote a freak accident. Hewent on to say that quote. He
was lying on his back with hishead to the side in a weird position,

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and Harod was frantic and hyperventilating.I was desperate to save him.
Eventually I stopped and she said,he's dead. He's dead. There's nothing
I could do. And Harod saidshe heard him take his last breath.
I didn't hit him in the tummyand didn't see ang Harod hit him in
the stomach. He had been jumpingaround all day and it had been a

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cult day. I carried him tothe river. There's a little steep kind
of drop. I put him onthe edge. I put him there,
and then I went back up andHarrod, when I went back up,
handed me the dinosaur top. Shesaid, we have to get rid of
this. I went out and threwit in the bushes. I didn't really
hang about. I was panicking.When she was interviewed for the first time

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the day after her arrest, Williamsonhad just learned that there was security camera
footage from her neighbor's house that hadcaptured video of her boyfriend and his stepson
taking her son's dead body to theriver, prompting her to tell police that
quote, I feel conned, soconned. I wish I had never met
him. They've ruined my life.I don't want him anywhere near me again.

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She maintained that she had slept throughthe night. Over her first four
interviews, Williamson claimed that she hadno idea that her son had been so
badly injured, but during her fifthinterview, she claimed that her boyfriend had
quote punched him in the stomach.He hit him a couple of times in
the stomach because he wouldn't talk,and he said, quothe, the only

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way this boy understands is pain.He called Craig over and said, if
he flinches one more time while I'mtalking to him, have him and said
sweep and punch, explaining that theyhad these skills from their martial arts background.
She told police that she'd been asleepthat night, but they already knew
that she'd been awake because of Logan'sbedroom light turning off in his curtain being

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closed in the security video while shewas the only one in the home.
The revelation was also made that hadLogan received medical attention, he was likely
to have survived, and probably didsurvive his injuries for up to seven hours
prior to his death. Logan's fatherwonders why more wasn't done to make sure

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that his only child lived in asafe environment. Six months after their arrests,
the trio went to trial at CardiffCrown Court, with Mulligan's identities still
anonymous. Each were charged with murderand with perverting the course of justice,
which Coal pled guilty to before theirtrial began. Prosecutors opened by saying,

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in part quote, it is theprosecutions case that Logan was murdered and each
of the defendants in the dock playedtheir part in the killing of the five
year old child, who would nothave stood a chance against any one of
the defendants, let alone three ofthem together. The prosecutions say that having
killed Logan behind closed doors in thefamily home in Bridge End, each of

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the defendants played their part in thecover up of the true circumstances of his
death. Each was desperate to coverup their involvement in his killing and prioritize
their own self preservation over everything else, and particularly over the needs of Logan.
Over eight weeks a trial, allthree of them were convicted of killing

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Logan and of perverting the course ofjustice. On June thirtieth two and twenty
two. John Cole received twenty nineyears to life and Harrod Williamson was sentenced
to twenty eight years to life,and Craig Mulligan, now fourteen years old,
received fifteen years to life in ayouth offenders institute and his anonymity restriction

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was lifted. At sentencing, thejudge said, quote to see these injuries
on a small, defenseless five yearold as nothing short of horrifying. What
happened to Logan must have involved appallingmental and physical suffering. It's impossible to
imagine the terror of a five yearold child as these injuries were inflicted on

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him in the presence of his ownmother. You had an opportunity to protect
your son from any further injury,and you did nothing. Some have now
called for the release of the documentsexplaining why Mulligan was placed in the custody
of j Cole, to be releasedwhen Logan and his younger sibling had just

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been on the Child Protection Registry andhad social workers assigned to them specifically because
Cole was considered a potential threat.Not only that, but as the prosecutors
said at trial, quote by thetime Mulligan was taken from his mother,
he was already a complex, troubledand violent boy who had reportedly stated on
numerous occasions that he wanted to killLogan Mwangi, whom he never referred to

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by name. One former politician statedthat quote, the public have a right
to know what family court judges hadand why decisions were made. The most
important thing is that lessons are learned, and lessons can't be learned if information
isn't available so it can be properlydiscussed. At the time of Logan's death,

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his father hadn't been allowed to speakto him for more than a year
and a half. Regarding the magnitudeof hiss, he said, quote,
my dreams of Logan are so vivid. He runs into my arms and I
hold him tight, but he thenslowly disappears until he's no longer in my
arms. The past months have beenhell for me. I shouldn't have to

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bury my son. My family hasbeen a massive support for me. However,
they are also grieving. My fatherwas already unwell, but as soon
as he heard of Logan's death,he told me that he had given up
and he was ready to go.My father's health quickly deteriorated, and he
also passed away in December twenty twentyone. My social group has also been

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impacted to the point of collapse.Everyone knows of Logan's death, and I
find that people are always looking atme but don't know how to treat me
or what to say, so I'drather not go out. I can't see
a future in another relationship or inhaving more children, because I don't want
something like this to ever happen tome again. I've accepted that this is

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my life now. Logan was thesweetest and most beautiful boy whose life has
been tragically cut short. The worldis a colder and darker place without his
warm smile and the happy energy withwhich he lived his life. The whole
that has been left in the heartsof all who knew him will never be
filled. No amounts of time canheal the wounds that have been inflicted.

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The wonderful memories I have of myson will never be tarnished. They will
forever be in my heart and soul. I loved him so much, and
somehow I have to live my lifeknowing that I will never get to see
him grow up to be the wonderfulman he would have been before I go.
I just wanted to let you knowthat our friend of the show,

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Antonio is Free, has just publishedhis first book. It's called More Than
My Memoir and you can get iton Amazon dot com. I already got
my copy, and I hope youguys do too. As always, thanks
for listening. I'll be bad backin a week with another new episode,
so until then, lovelies, don'tbe scared.