The heartbroken grandmother of murdered schoolboy Logan Mwangi has fallen 200ft off a cliff to her death at a coastal beauty spot in a suspected suicide, MailOnline can reveal.
Clare Williamson, who described her tragic five-year-old grandson as ‘the apple of her eye’, struggled to come to terms with the horrors inflicted upon him by her daughter Angharad Williamson in the boy’s brutal killing.
Mrs Williamson, 64, is believed to have written to Angharad in jail about her intention to end her life, which was intercepted by prison authorities.
Police were alerted and located her car at a cliff location near her home in Bridgend, South Wales.
Ms Williamson’s body was spotted on the beach below and was recovered by the Porthcawl lifeboat.
An inquest heard the provisional cause of death was multiple traumatic injuries.
Angharad was told of her mother’s death in prison where she is serving a minimum of 28 years for Logan’s murder.
Mrs Williamson gave evidence at the trial into Logan’s death where her daughter Angharad, Logan’s stepfather John Cole, 40, and Cole’s stepson Craig Mulligan, 14, were all convicted of murder.
Clare Williamson, who described her tragic five-year-old grandson as ‘the apple of her eye’, struggled to come to terms with his murder at the hands of her daughter
Logan Mwangi, five, was murdered by his mother, his mother’s partner and his step-son and weighed just 19kg at the time of his death
All three were found guilty of murdering and torturing the playful and smiling schoolboy before dumping his body in a river. He was still wearing his dinosaur pyjama bottoms and Spider-Man top.
The schoolboy, who was just 3ft 5in and weighed three stone, or 19kg, at the time of his death, was tortured, starved and forced to do push-ups until he collapsed.
Logan had suffered 56 external cuts and bruises, and ‘catastrophic’ internal injuries likened to a high-speed road accident, caused by a ‘brutal and sustained assault’ in the hours, or days, prior to his death.
Experts said his injuries were ‘consistent with child abuse’ and prosecutors said in the months and weeks leading up to his death, Logan had been ‘dehumanised’ by his family.
But in her evidence grandmother Mrs Williamson, who identified the schoolboy’s battered and bruised body, tried to protect her daughter saying she never saw Logan being treated cruelly.
When asked if she had ever seen her daughter be ‘physical or violent’ towards Logan, she replied: ‘Absolutely not. She was a fantastic mum, she loved him to pieces.’
Ms Williamson described Logan as ‘the apple of my eye’, adding: ‘He was a very, very bright child, a joy to be around.’
But the grandmother had seen little of the schoolboy in the months leading up to the July 2021 murder because of a ‘difficult relationship’ with John Cole, described in court as controlling.
Mrs Williamson’s daughter Angharad Williamson, now 34, was jailed at Cardiff Crown Court for life with a minimum term of 28 years for the murder of her five-year-old son Logan Mwangi
John Cole, now 43, was Angharad’s partner and was jailed for life with a minimum term of 29 years for murder
Cole’s step-son Craig Mulligan, 14 at the time of sentencing, was jailed for life with a minimum term of five years for murder
Angharad and Cole tried to cover up the horrific events in their two-bedroom flat in Sarn, Bridgend, by claiming Logan had gone to the river alone in the middle of the night.
His grandmother was asked if Logan was the type of boy to wander off in the night. She replied: ‘No’.
Despite the rift Mrs Williamson was the first person her daughter turned to after Logan’s limp body was found in the River Ogmore, just a few hundred yards from the family home.
Mrs Williamson attended most days of the 10-week Cardiff Crown Court trial and was present when the jury found her daughter, Cole and Mulligan guilty of murdering her grandson.
The three defendants had denied violently assaulting the little boy saying they knew nothing about what happened.
All three were jailed for life with Angharad given a 28-year minimum sentence, Cole getting 29 years and Mulligan five years.
Angharad’s appeal against conviction in January 2023 was turned down.
Her mother Mrs Williamson never spoke publicly after the trial but she was known to be devastated over the brutal death of her grandson and seeing her daughter jailed for life.
Angharad and Cole tried to cover up the horrific events in their two-bedroom flat in Sarn, Bridgend, by claiming Logan (pictured) had gone to the river alone in the middle of the night
Mrs Williamson fell to her death from a 200ft cliff at Southerndown (stock image)
Her email to her daughter was seen by the prison authorities who alerted South Wales Police who had also received a call from Mrs Williamson at 8.35am on June 16 saying she intended to end her life.
By the time police got to the Southerndown beauty spot, near Porthcawl she had already fallen to her death.
The inquest heard Mrs Williamson, from Bridgend, was identified by her son Lloyd Williamson.
Assistant South Wales central coroner Rachel Knight gave her condolences to her family ‘at this sad time’.
Logan was not mentioned during the brief hearing which was adjourned while inquiries continue.
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