The devious 999 call in which monster mum Angharad Williamson pretends not to know what has happened to her son Logan Mwangi can now be revealed.
The dramatic phone call, made to South Wales police at 5:46am on Saturday, July 31 last year, sounds like any terrified mum who had just lost a child.
But scheming Williamson, 31, who admitted covering up the cruel abuse her son had endured from her and partner John Cole puts on the performance of her life in an attempt to con the concerned call handler.
Logan Mwangi, five, was found in the River Ogmore in Sarn, south Wales, in July last year with injuries similar to those in a high-speed car crash.
The youngster had suffered more than 56 external injuries, as well as horrific internal wounds - including a large tear to his liver and one to his bowel.
He was dumped in the river in the dead of night by his brutal step-dad Cole, 40.
In the call, just hours after Logan has been left in the river, Williamson can be heard pretending to cry and hyperventilate.
She seems like any distressed mother about to break down even though she knew her little lad lay dead just 400 yards away from their home in Sarn, south Wales.
In the harrowing call she can be heard screaming “Please, please help me” as she explains her son is “not here” before being asked to take a breath by the sympathetic 999 operator.
Seemingly struggling to breathe Williamson manages to blurt out her address before finally explaining her little five-year-old son Logan Mwangi had gone missing.
She says though crocodile tears: “My son, my baby, he's not here.
“I tucked him into bed last night and I've just got up for my son and the other one's not here.”
She then screams “Logan, Logan, Logan” at the top of her voice while the police call handler attempts to calm her down while Williamson squeals: “Where is he?
“Help me please, he is a little mixed race boy, he's just got his spidey pyjamas on”
The highly trained operator then changes tack and asks Williamson if anybody else is there at which point Williamson claims her partner John Cole was out looking for him even though she knew he had already disposed of Logan's battered body hours earlier.
Williamson then makes a dramatic ploy of explaining her back gate is open before finally taking a breath to give the police her name as she seemingly searches for Logan at the back of her house.
She then gives the police Cole's name before chillingly describing him as “step-dad, but virtually dad.”
Little Logan was found wearing only mis-matched pyjamas in the river by police a short time later - he was confirmed dead later in hospital.
Police arrested Williamson, Cole and the unnamed 14-year-old youth the very next day.
During her trial Williamson was described by the prosecution as a "liar who will try any stunt to avoid her true personality being on display", and who "had been exposed by the trial process as being a selfish women whose only protective interests are for herself".
Indeed she admitted she lied to detectives investigating her son's death in order to protect herself.
She failed to tell officers of an attack on Logan by her partner Cole, and the unidentified teen 14- two days before his death, until her fifth police interview.
She claimed she was too as scared and selfish to do so and later admitted to the jury she was a "shit mother" to her son Logan by not allowing him out of his "dungeon-like" room in the days leading up to his tragic death.
Here is a transcript of the fraudulent 999 call Williamson made to police:
Williamson: Please please help me please.
Operator: Where are you?
Williamson: My son, I don’t know he’s not here….
Operator: Okay, take a breath, because I can’t understand you when you’re crying. Where are you?
Wiliamson: Lower Llansantffraid, in Sarn… Send somebody, he’s not here.
Operator: Okay. Who’s not there?
Williamson: My son, he’s my baby and he’s not here.
Operator: Okay, take a breath. When did you see him last?
Williamson: I tucked him in last night and I have got up and he’s not here... Logan, Logan, Logan.
Operator: Okay, take a breath, he’s five and he’s gone. Can you see any of the doors open?.... I need you to speak to me, not just shout. I know it’s really full-on and it’s really scary. I need you to tell me.
Williamson: Where is he?
Operator: What’s his name?
Williamson: Logan, Logan Williamson, please… he’s five, please….He’s a little mixed race boy, he’s got his Spidey pyjamas on…. Where are his shoes?
Operator: Okay. Is anybody else there with you? Any other adults?
Williamson: Yeah my partner, he’s looking now.
Operator: Right, are any of the doors or windows open?
Williamson: Doors, windows, what’s open? Someone tell me what.
Operator: Take a breath, I know that this is terrifying for you. Right now I need (inaudible), breathe so that I can get the information I need.
Williamson: My back gate is open, my back gate is open.
Operator: Okay, the back gate. Where does the back gate lead up to?
Williamson: I don’t know what the road’s called.
Operator: That’s fine, it leads onto a road as opposed to a field or anything like that does it?
Williamson: I walk, I’m walking up now. It’s concrete…. You’ve got to look for him now.
Operator: What’s your name? I need to know your name a second.
Williamson: Are you sending someone please?... Angharad
Operator: Okay Angharad, I really need you to just take a breath for a second okay because you’re trying to hyperventilate. I know that this is very, very scary. I need you to stay in the house. So who’s run out after Logan?
Williamson: My fiancé, my partner.
Operator: Your partner has, okay. So dad’s gone out looking, yeah? What’s dad’s name?
Williamson: John Cole. He’s stepdad but virtually dad.
Operator: We’re going to flood the area with officers.
Williamson: He’s never done anything like this…They’re looking now…Logan had Covid for the past week. He’s been in lockdown the past week with Covid….He’s never had symptoms…Please help me, this is my baby…I just can’t stand here and do nothing… Where is he?... I just can’t stand here…Please, I’m begging you, please. He’s my baby.
Williamson refers to a woman and blames her for Logan’s disappearance. She tells the operator: "I bet she’s done this."
Williamson then appears to be speaking to a passer-by. She said: “Excuse me, have you seen my son? Thank you. Where are they?..."
Williamson: Isolation was lifted today. He’s supposed to be going out now…..
She’s asked by the operator if Logan has a favourite place to go.
Williamson: Oh my friend Rhi’s, oh I can’t think, oh hang on, oh hang on. (She begins hyperventilating) My son is missing… Where are they, please ….
She’s asked about Logan’s biological father.
Williamson: No, he’s not seen him in three years. He lives all the way in London. He can see him whenever he wants, he just chooses not to.
She again accuses the woman of having Logan.
Williamson: Please, where is everybody? Nobody is here. (She shouts: "Logan, Logan.") I just can’t stand here. Where are you? No, where is he?…He’s five. He can’t be out here on his own, there’s no parent with him, he must be scared.
The operator tries to reassure Williamson and tells them police are looking for Logan and will find him.
Williamson: I don’t see anyone…. [The woman], it’s got to be her….. We have had alarms on the doors, I don’t know how this has happened. I’ve got window alarms and I have got…. How has this happened?…. If one of your children were missing, what would you do?…Please send someone… But why is nobody here? Who’s here? [The woman] she has him please….I can’t see anybody... (She shouts: "Logan, please, Logan.") He hasn’t got his shoes on, he hasn’t got his coat…..I suffer from anxiety (Again blames the woman) Get here to get my baby back….Please promise me you’ll find him, please…..I am severely epileptic, yeah….I need someone here to be looking for him and there’s not one person standing outside my house. There’s a whole park here, I can’t go and look. ( She shouts: "Logan." The operator asks her to calm down.)
Williamson: I think it’s a lot easier said than done, I woke up and my son’s missing from my house…. Oh please bring somebody here to help, I want my baby here, please.
The operator asks if the police have arrived..
Williamson: He’s here, he’s here. Help me please. Yeah I see the... I don’t know where he is, I don’t know where he is…. Please help me, oh please. We need to look please."
