Logan Mwangi murder trial latest as mum admits 'selfish' lies
You were awake and don’t want the jury to know'
Defendant Angharad Williamson is asked about events leading up to and after she claims to have gone to bed on the night of July 30 last year.
Prosecutor Caroline Rees QC said: “You went to bed and took your medication knowing, as your evidence suggests, it would knock you out.” Williamson said: “Yes I was desperate for some sleep.”
Ms Rees said: “And took your hearing aids out?” Williamson said: “I thought it would be okay. Nothing happens in the night so I didn’t think there would be a problem.”
Ms Rees said: “If anything happened in the night what were you going to do about it?”
Williamsons said: “Someone would have had to shake me to wake me up…. I thought Logan was safe because he was asleep.”
Ms Rees said: “John Cole had threatened to kill him that morning.” Williamson said: “I thought Jay was saying it flippantly, I didn’t think he actually meant it.”
Ms Rees said: “You’re lying about being awake.” Williamson said: “No I wasn’t, I don’t know what happened to my son.”
Ms Rees said: “What have you got to hide?” Williamson said: “I wasn’t awake.”
Williamson was asked about the use of her banking app in the early hours of July 31. Ms Rees said: “It was you wasn’t it?” Williamsons said: “No it wasn’t.”
When asked who else could have used it, she said: “Jay Cole.”
Ms Rees said: “You liked Pimple Popper videos didn’t you. That was you wasn’t it?” Williamson said: “No.”
Ms Rees said: “All the other access to Pimple Popper are you but on the 31st it’s others?”
Williamson said: “I can’t tell you all the other times people used my phone.”
Ms Rees said: “It was you using them and accessing them on the night of 31st.”
Williamson said: “No it wasn’t…. I didn’t use my phone, I wasn’t awake.”
The topic is turned to the lights in Logan’s room.
Ms Rees said: “Why was he light coming off and on in Logan’s bedroom on 31st?”
Williamson said: “I don’t know. I wasn’t awake.”
Ms Rees said: “If John Cole and [the youth] leave with Logan’s body, you’re the only person there.”
Williamson said: “If you come back jumping over the wall from the side it doesn’t mean you can be seen on the camera.”
Footage of Cole and the youth leaving 5 Lower Llansantffraid is played to the court.
Williamson is asked to watch but initially refuses. Mrs Justice Jefford tells Williamson she will be asked questions.
Ms Rees said: “Logan’s curtains open, the lights come on. It was you.”
Williamson said: “It was someone else because it wasn’t me. I was asleep.”
She suggested Cole or the youth ran back quickly and turned the lights on.
The defendant added: “I can’t answer the question, it wasn’t me….. I wasn’t doing it and I wasn’t there.”
Ms Rees said: “That is you opening that curtain?” Williamson said: “No it’s not.”
Ms Rees said: “Why won’t you tell the truth?” Williamson said: “I was not involved in my son’s murder, I was not involved in covering up, it’s not me opening the curtains, switching on the lights or anything like that.”
Footage is played of Cole and the youth returning to the property. Ms Rees said: “They appear to leave on the and come back on the path.”
Williamson said: “I cannot tell you what happened, I wasn’t awake. I cannot tell you why they took that route, I wasn’t awake.”
Ms Rees said: “Jumping over walls is absolute lies… You were awake and don’t want the jury to know.”
Williamson said: “No I wasn’t.”
