Thursday 30 June 2022 11:03 PM A 13-year-old monster was sent to live in Logan Mwangi's home AFTER he had made ... trends now

Thursday 30 June 2022 11:03 PM A 13-year-old monster was sent to live in Logan Mwangi's home AFTER he had made ... trends now
Thursday 30 June 2022 11:03 PM A 13-year-old monster was sent to live in Logan Mwangi's home AFTER he had made ... trends now

Thursday 30 June 2022 11:03 PM A 13-year-old monster was sent to live in Logan Mwangi's home AFTER he had made ... trends now

Social services were in the dock last night after it emerged that a ‘pure evil’ teenager murdered a five-year-old boy just days after they allowed him to move into the young boy’s home.

In the latest deadly failure to protect children, Logan Mwangi was tortured and left to die by 13-year-old Craig Mulligan along with his stepfather, racist ex-convict John Cole, 40, and the ‘defenceless’ boy’s mother, Angharad Williamson, 31.

Mulligan – now 14 – was yesterday named and shamed by a judge after an anonymity order was successfully challenged by media including the Daily Mail.

And it can now be revealed how social workers agreed he could move into the family’s cramped flat just five days before the murder. The teenager moved in despite previously threatening to kill Logan.

Pictured here is Craig Mulligan convicted of the murder of Logan Mwangi. The youth’s identity can be revealed today after the judge in the case lifted an anonymity order

Pictured here is Craig Mulligan convicted of the murder of Logan Mwangi. The youth’s identity can be revealed today after the judge in the case lifted an anonymity order

Logan Mwangi, 5, is pictured in the dinosaur pajamas he was wearing on the day he died

Logan Mwangi, 5, is pictured in the dinosaur pajamas he was wearing on the day he died

The arrangement – likened during the murder trial to ‘putting a lit match in a powder keg’ – was approved by the secretive family courts after Cole applied for guardianship of Mulligan.

Despite not being a blood relative, Mulligan idolised Cole and referred to him as ‘dad’. In chilling contrast, he would not refer to Logan as his brother, calling him only ‘the five-year-old’. Social work insiders told the Mail of their incredulity that Mulligan was allowed to live with Logan, who only weeks earlier had been taken off the child protection register.

Logan’s mother, stepfather and Mulligan – who was described as ‘pure evil’ by a foster carer – were convicted of his murder.

And yesterday life sentences were imposed on Cole – said by the judge to have carried out the attack – as well as Mulligan, who she said joined in, and Williamson, who helped them stage a ‘callous’ cover-up. Cole was sentenced to at least 29 years behind bars and Williamson 28 years. Mulligan was detained for a minimum of 15 years.

Amid horror over the previously hidden truth about how Mulligan’s presence was approved by those meant to protect Logan, calls were last night made for Wales to follow England’s example and instigate a nationwide inquiry into child protection failures.

Last night, disturbing footage of Mulligan’s arrest laid bare his arrogant response to Logan’s death, showing him chewing gum and apparently showing no emotion.

The baby-faced 13-year-old calmly lied to officers that when he and Cole were caught on CCTV carrying a black bag at 2.45am on July 31, it contained ‘rubbish’ from the back garden which they ‘chucked’ in the river. In reality, the black bag contained Logan’s body.

The tragedy follows the recent deaths of two other youngsters who suffered similarly horrific neglect. MPs at Westminster have this week been probing the lockdown murders of 16-month-old Star Hobson and Arthur Labinjo-Hughes, six, with council bosses admitting no social workers had been sacked over the tragedies. Both were killed by their parents’ partners during the pandemic after social workers missed signs they were being abused.

Mark Drakeford, the Labour First Minister of Wales, has so far rejected calls for an independent review into children’s social work following Logan’s death.

However, Welsh Liberal Democrat leader Jane Dodds – herself a child protection social worker for more than 25 years –yesterday said there was ‘no reason’ not to follow the England’s example.

Even his foster carers were terrified of him: Teenager Craig Mulligan's involvement in the death of five-year-old Logan Mwangi should never have been allowed to happen, writes TOM RAWSTORNE

His name will go down in infamy alongside those of Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, the two ten-year-olds jailed for killing James Bulger. It was a crime that saw them become the youngest children to be convicted of murder in modern British history.

At 13, Craig Mulligan was only slightly older when he joined in the attack that left poor Logan Mwangi dying in agony.

The youth’s identity can be revealed today after the judge in the case lifted an anonymity order. But what can also be revealed for the first time is that his involvement in the death of the defenceless five-year-old could – and should – never have been allowed to happen.

Mulligan’s behaviour had been raising red flags for years. Brought up in chaotic circumstances, he delighted in torturing animals and other children, his simmering aggression terrifying even adults. One foster carer described him as ‘pure evil’.

He first came into contact with Logan when his own ‘stepfather’ John ‘Jay’ Cole started dating the little boy’s mother, Angharad Williamson, in 2019. It wasn’t long before he was accused of pushing the child down the stairs, fracturing his arm.

The photo shows Angharad Williamson and her fiance Jay Cole, the mother and stepfather of Logan Mwangi, aged five, who was found dead in the Ogmore River near Pandy Park close to his home in Bridgend in South Wales on 31 July last year

The photo shows Angharad Williamson and her fiance Jay Cole, the mother and stepfather of Logan Mwangi, aged five, who was found dead in the Ogmore River near Pandy Park close to his home in Bridgend in South Wales on 31 July last year

Mulligan should not have been allowed within a million miles of Logan – a vulnerable child whose welfare social services were supposed to be monitoring. Instead, a decision was taken by the family court to formally place the disturbed teenager in the care of Cole and Williamson, meaning he would live with Logan in a two-bed flat.

One social worker involved in the case told the Daily Mail that she was dumbfounded by the decision to allow Mulligan to live with Logan. ‘Craig Mulligan should never have been allowed to live in the same household as Logan. Any social worker would say that. It’s common sense.

‘To have a teenager like that placed with a young boy who’d been on a child protection plan should be an absolute no-no.’

Yet Mulligan moved in on July 26, 2021. Five days later Logan’s body was found.

Meanwhile, it is hard to imagine a less suitable guardian for the pair than Cole. A vile racist with a long list of convictions for everything from violent assaults to witness intimidation, the 40-year-old claimed to have been in the SAS but was in fact nothing more than a controlling bully.

A post mortem discovered 56 external injuries to Logan’s body as well as a torn bowel and liver – the sort of damage normally seen in a car crash or fall from height.

How these injuries were inflicted on Logan no one fully knows. Instead of admitting what they had done, the three turned on one

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