The heartbroken father of murdered five-year-old Logan Mwangi has began campaigning to have the legislation modified in order that estranged dad and mom are informed if social providers change into concerned with their organic little one.
Logan’s Regulation would guarantee absent dad and mom are notified if their little one is positioned on the kid safety register, Benjamin Mwangi mentioned.
Logan and his youthful sibling have been positioned on the register in March 2021 after considerations have been raised about his mom Angharad Williamson’s boyfriend John Cole, who had earlier convictions for violence.
In June 2021, only a month earlier than Logan’s demise, they have been faraway from the register – that means it was believed there was not a danger of serious hurt.
Logan, a beforehand “smiling, cheerful little boy”, was found submerged within the River Ogmore in Pandy Park, Bridgend, on the morning of July 31 2021.
He had been dumped there by Cole and his 13-year-old stepson, Craig Mulligan, in the midst of the evening after struggling greater than 50 exterior cuts and bruises, and “catastrophic” inner accidents, which have been likened to these suffered by victims of high-speed street accidents.
Following a trial at Cardiff Crown Court docket, Cole, Williamson and Mulligan have been sentenced final Friday to life in jail, and informed they’d serve no less than 29, 28 and 15 years respectively.
Choose Mrs Justice Jefford informed the court docket: “As a result of he was killed in his own residence and by his family, it isn’t potential to make sure precisely what occurred to him. However what could be very clear is that, shortly earlier than his demise, this little boy – 3ft 5in in top and weighing solely 3st 1lb – was subjected to a brutal assault.”
Mr Mwangi informed ITV’s Good Morning Britain on Monday: “I don’t actually assume anyone may actually discover the phrases to truly even clarify how any mother or father may deal with their little one in such a disgraceful means. Or anyone can deal with a baby in that method.
“And so looking for the phrases to attempt to clarify it in my thoughts is simply actually fully incomprehensible. Utterly inconceivable.”
Mr Mwangi, who lives in Brentwood, Essex, mentioned he had been co-parenting Logan with Williamson, who moved to South Wales shortly earlier than Logan’s start in March 2016 to be nearer to her mom.
However he mentioned Williamson minimize off contact after starting a relationship with Cole in 2019.
“As quickly as Cole stepped on to the scene every little thing fully modified,” Mr Mwangi mentioned.
“He mentioned that I used to be speaking to her an excessive amount of. However clearly we’d solely speak about Logan. And after that every little thing simply fell aside.
“She despatched me a nasty message saying Logan has a household now, he doesn’t want me and I’m by no means going to see my son once more.”
Mr Mwangi continued to have occasional phone contact with Logan throughout visits together with his grandmother, Williamson’s mom, at weekends. Nevertheless, that quickly ended when Williamson stopped Logan visiting her mom.
“As a result of I hadn’t seen Logan in so lengthy, I had completely no data, or no concept, about what was occurring. I had completely no data in any respect about what was occurring to Logan,” Mr Mwangi mentioned.
“That is precisely what Logan’s Regulation goes to be about – to let estranged dad and mom like myself really know when their little one has gone to social providers.
“If I’d have had any inkling in any respect that Logan was recognized (to social providers), I’d have gone with a police escort and informed social providers ‘OK, I’m getting my son’s issues and I’m taking him away from this clearly hostile surroundings. If he’s at risk, let’s make him secure’.”
A baby apply overview – an investigation into the circumstances of Logan’s demise – is now underneath means and Mr Mwangi mentioned one of many key inquiries to be answered is why he, as Logan’s organic father, was not contacted.
Different inquiries to be explored will embody how Mulligan got here to be positioned within the household residence.
Cole and Williamson gained custody of Mulligan on July 26 2021 and he went to reside with them at their residence in Sarn, 5 days earlier than Logan was killed.
Mulligan, now 14, was described as an already “troubled and violent boy” who had made repeated threats to kill Logan within the presence of his foster carers.
– A Logan’s Regulation petition on Change.org has thus far acquired 7,331 signatures.
Kaynak: briturkish.com