Mum Angharad Williamson, 31, stepdad John Cole, 40, step-brother Craig Mulligan, 14, were sentenced to life in prison for the horrific crime
Murdered Logan Mwangi was failed during the Covid lockdown - when multiple opportunities were missed by social services to save the schoolboy, a safeguarding review has found. The five-year-old was brutally killed by family just weeks after he was "stepped down" from the child protection register.
Now, a report which investigated police, school workers, NHS staff and social services has found there were multiple failures across services in the months leading up to youngster's death. Shockingly, Logan was taken off the child protection register just 13 days after his mum pressed a hot spoon against his neck, burning his skin.
It also said social workers had a "lack of confidence in challenging the family’s potential use of Covid 19 anxieties and Covid 19 symptoms as a barrier to engagement with services." Logan was referred to as Child T and Mulligan as Child Y throughout the extensive review, which was commissioned by the Cwm Taf Morgannwg Safeguarding Board.
The report said: "There were gaps in risk assessments and specialist skills around interrogating and analysing evidence. There were examples of risk management plans being stepped down without clear explanations as to how the risk had changed or could be managed in the longer term." "If the injuries were considered by Health Professionals to be non-accidental there should have been clear considerations to the number of injuries and site on the body, parental supervision being afforded to Child T and if wider agencies’ support was required. This again should have triggered a child protection referral."
During this time, he was confined to his tiny bedroom behind a locked child gate. Whenever he attempted to leave the room to interact with his family, Williamson and Cole would repeatedly punish him - with little Logan also self-harming by biting himself until he bled. She added: "He was kept in isolation in his room for 10 days with a baby gate across the door. He had no physical contact with his mother and was made to look away and face a wall when food was passed for him.
"Logan was particularly vulnerable because of his age, he was just five years old, small, and he was completely defenceless."
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