The guilty verdict for the killers of Logan Mwangi, Angharad Williamson and stepdad John Cole, may have brought an end to the legal proceedings but not to questions about the horror the innocent boy faced.
It is possible many questions will never be answered, a tragic and horrifying outcome for all but none more so than his father, Benjamin Mwangi.
Williamson and Cole are thought to have exacted brutal cruelty on the innocent boy, who had his whole life ahead of him, adding further nightmarish disgust to his untimely death.
The sick pair have today (June 30) been jailed - Williamson for 28 years, Cole for 29 years.
A 14-year-old defendant has also been found guilty in the proceedings, which wrapped up on June 30, but they cannot be named due to their age. They have been sentenced to life behind bars with a minimum of 15 years.
Not one of the killers admitted to what they did, chopping and changing their stories to save themselves as the proceedings rolled on.
No respect for the boy, the evil mother, 31, and stepfather, 40, eventually turned on each other in court accusing the other of lying and violent behaviour.
But despite the verdict, so many questions about what really happened in the final hours of his life remain unanswered, lost in the lies of those who killed him.
Little Logan’s life was ended at his mother’s home in Sarn, Bridgend and his body was dumped in the River Ogmore by Cole on July 31 2021.
He was found bruised, grazed and scratched all over.
In total, some 50 injuries were found on the body of the five-year-old.
Williamson, the daughter of a stockbroker and privately educated, was mother to a 'good boy', the testimonies of those who knew him claimed.
Relatives and friends have described Logan's zest for life, but his last days and months were likely an agonising and brutal ordeal.
More than a week before his death, on July 21, the little lad came down with Covid and his mother and stepfather imposed strict isolation rules on him, banishing him to his room with curtains closed.
He was forced to face the wall when food was brought up.
Even his conniving mother described his cell as a “dungeon”, with a stairgate used to trap him inside.
He self-harmed through anxiety during his self-isolation, which would have legally ended the day his body was found in the river.
Conflicting evidence over hours in court clouded proceedings, but it seems the chain of events that ultimately led to the end of Logan's life was triggered by a damaged stereo for which he took the blame.
Williams didn’t mention it until her fourth interview with the police. Eventually, she said that Cole had punched him in the stomach and the unnamed third defendant had swept Logan off his feet causing him to hit his head.
Cole disagreed, saying he only “shook Logan by his arms” after the little one had “wiped a booger on the stereo and banged the keys on the laptop”.
Williamson disagreed, arguing Cole punched him twice. "I didn’t think it was that hard… The injury Logan sustained on the Thursday were not the ones that killed him. He would have been in pain throughout the Friday and we would have seen that."
She said a check on him later in the evening found a "a little red mark on his belly", which she remedied with "a drink, a cuddle, and some Calpol".
Logan’s social worker Debbie Williams made a surprise visit to the flat that night but wasn’t allowed in because she told Logan was in isolation.
No one will likely know what condition he was really in at that point - apart from the three killers.
Williamson eventually said, among rapidly changing conversations and arguments in court, that she wanted to tell the the truth, which only makes it harder to work out what was fact and what was fiction from the court proceedings.
Between July 29 and 31, Williamson didn’t call for help for her son. Asked why not, she said: “Because I didn’t think it was the punch which killed him...I’m not saying what I did was right but I didn’t think those were the hits which killed."
She says Cole killed her son while she slept on the night of July 30. Speaking to the court, she said: "I never wanted my child dead, I never wanted…."
She added: "Just tell the truth Jay."
Conducting his examination the day after the five-year-old’s body was found, pathologist Dr John Williams identified 56 separate injuries in total, including internal ones normally associated with trauma from a car crash or fall from height.
Evidence was found of severe blunt force trauma to the abdomen and there was tearing to the bowel and liver.
Dr Williams said afterwards: “The court heard there were features indicating a period of survival following injuries being sustained which may have been up to several hours.....The findings do not indicate death occurred immediately after injuries were sustained."
The prosecution said that before he died Logan had been the victim of a “brutal and sustained assault”.
Caroline Rees QC said: "Life in the months, weeks, and days leading to his death must have been a real struggle for Logan who, even on his own biological mother’s own evidence, sunk to the bottom of the pecking order of that family in that small flat.
“In the 10 days before Logan’s body was discovered, he had been kept like a prisoner in his small bedroom in the flat you saw, a room likened by Williamson as a dungeon, curtains closed and a barred child gate to stop him from exiting and moving about.
"The little boy was made to face the wall as food was delivered to him…..What must he have thought about the way life was in those 10 days?"
The prosecution had little faith that those charged with the boy’s care had no idea of the injuries that had been inflicted.
"Why did not one of those defendants do anything to get help for injured Logan or some assistance for the situation he was in? Why are they all, even now, in this trial denying this was physical abuse?" asked Ms Rees.
Despite her sorry words about her misery at her son’s death, during the trial Williamson did little to fill in the gaps about what had happened to her son.
Speaking outside court about the verdict, Benjamin said the world was a "colder and darker place" without his lad, the truth behind his suffering unknown as long as his killers lie and dodge to help themselves.
Denied access to his child since 2019 by Williamson, Mr Mwangi told ITV : “What child has to go through that sort of torture for such a long period of the time? No, it really doesn’t seem real. One of the biggest questions in my whole entire life I’ll always be asking myself is: ‘Why? Why did this happen? Why did Logan have to die?”’
