Boy, 5, had 'dark circles around his eyes', teacher tells murder trial
Those who know me know I LOVE A STATEMENT. Straight from the horse's mouth and all that.
So, I've had a little look. To see if AW's statement in August 2020 about Logan's broken arm and dislocated shoulder appears to be truthful, or deceptive (all in my unqualified opinion, nothing factual, probably biased)
The first thing I was looking for was a definitive statement that Logan fell down the stairs. See the phone call to police (copied below) in Jan 2021 where she says it three times, no doubt after much practice with friends and family some 5 months down the road.
So, what do we have at the hospital :
“I am the mother of Logan Williamson. I am currently in a relationship with John Cole. He resides at 20 Maesglas near Sarn. We live five minutes from each other and regularly stay at each other’s houses.
“On August 15 I was staying at John Cole’s house with Logan, four… At around 5pm I was in the kitchen, except Logan who was upstairs in one of the bedrooms. There was a camera in his bedroom so I can watch him from the kitchen….
“Dinner was ready so I called Logan through the monitor to come down as food was ready. He acknowledged my request and I heard a slight thud when he jumped off the mattress and ran across the landing.
“This took two to three seconds and next thing I heard was a series of very loud thuds. I thought he had fallen and ran to help. I immediately saw Logan in a heap at the bottom of the first flight of stairs. He was screaming and appeared to be in a lot of pain."
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I thought he had fallen". (Note also that Logan is a verbal child, at age 4. What AW "thought" could have been verified by Logan.) "
I thought he had fallen" has many problems. It omits 'down the stairs'. People don't like lying to police, in case they muck up and it doesn't sound convincing. Not only that but the "I thought" part should have been confirmed immediately and by the next day she should be sure about it. It's not relevant to tell police what AW was thinking as she stood in the kitchen, unless she's building up a story. (IMO)
So I'm immediately doubting whether she believed Logan fell down the stairs.
Next I went through the statement looking for other things that stood out:
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At around 5pm I was in the kitchen, except Logan who was upstairs in one of the bedrooms. There was a camera in his bedroom so I can watch him from the kitchen."
She's placed him upstairs, which would of course have to be true for a fall down the stairs, but the part saying "except Logan" is, I would say, nervous babble. It isn't a proper sentence.
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“Dinner was ready so I called Logan through the monitor to come down as food was ready."
It seems so important that AW has a reason for Logan coming down the stairs that she says dinner/food was ready twice. More attempts to convince, IMO, because who cares why Logan was coming down the stairs? It's not relevant but when irrelevant details are given it becomes more likely to be story building and delaying getting to the only relevant part - the injury, IMO.
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"He acknowledged my request and I heard a slight thud when he jumped off the mattress and ran across the landing."
More irrelevant detail in that Logan "acknowledged" her request.
Then BOOM "
and I heard a slight thud when he jumped off the mattress and ran across the landing." AW heard a slight thud - she's just said she was watching him, so why did she switch to an auditory narrative? What does a thud in the bedroom have to do with an injury that hadn't occurred yet? I now have to wonder, with the lack of one definitive statement that Logan fell down the stairs, whether the injury occurred in the bedroom, and that is why AW goes to all the trouble of explaining that she has a monitor in the bedroom to watch him, so justifiying why it couldn't have happened in the bedroom. It reminds me of the case of 5 year old Summer Wells (USA), where her mum says she walked her the distance of 25 feet or so from the caravan to the house, just before she disappeared, as if she needed constant supervision. I think emphasising parental vigilance is a narrative often used by neglectful parents. I think Logan had his humerus broken and shoulder dislocated by the youth in the bedroom and the only excuse they could come up with was a fall down stairs, and she couldn't even bring herself to state that part because it was a lie.
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"This took two to three seconds and next thing I heard was a series of very loud thuds. I thought he had fallen and ran to help. I immediately saw Logan in a heap at the bottom of the first flight of stairs. He was screaming and appeared to be in a lot of pain."
More irrelevant detail in the time it took Logan to exit the bedroom, seems like another build up. AW is very focused in this part on herself, what she heard, what she thought, what she saw and what she did. Then she describes Logan screams last. She would have heard him before she saw him. He is the last priority, after herself, in her statement about what happened to Logan.
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I conclude, IMO, it's deceptive and it's all designed to make her seem like a good mother which wouldn't be needed if it was true. When my son fell in the garden and hit his head and needed an ambulance it was about 15 odd years ago but I don't remember telling them what I was doing at the time and what I heard, all that was important was telling them how the injury happened.
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Lastly, the call to police - where the stairs narrative can't be undone after the early statement, but the youth is now being held accountable for Logan's injuries. Maybe he did beat him up
and push him down the stairs but I have doubts the stairs were involved given the unnecessary explanations AW gave of watching the bedroom, and with two injuries, a broken arm and dislocated shoulder. Just my opinion. :
"A call made by Angharad Williamson to police on January 20, 2021, is played to the court.
During the call, Williamson tells the officer the youth defendant confessed to pushing Logan down the stairs.
She said: “My son broke his arm and been to the hospital.
We thought he had fallen down the stairs but (the youth) pushed him, we only just found out.”
She added: “My four-year-old son Logan,
he fell down the stairs. I took him to hospital and got him checked out and everything. I have been in a domestic violence situation before and I got looked into.
I thought he fell downstairs and (the youth) confessed.... he pushed him down stairs. I can't keep my mouth shut, this is unacceptable.”
