The only way this boy knows punishment is pain'
Angharad Williamson’s final police interview took place on the evening of August 4. She said on the Thursday Logan was attacked she slept in his room until 11pm as she was worried about him.
The defendant said Logan was wriggling but claimed Logan “had always been melodramatic”.
On the Friday morning Williamson claimed Cole shouted at Logan and said: “Your mum had a go at me last night because of you, we’re always arguing over you. If you split me and your mum up I’m going to



**** kill you.”
She said Logan became frightened and Cole shouted “It’s all your fault, we’re always arguing about you, you’re always doing s*** and you’re always lying."
Williamson added: “He shouted his head off at Logan, I’ll be honest with you I walked away from the argument. Jay said I needed to get this sorted and [the youth] said: ‘We need to nip this in the bud’.”
DS Burt said: “How did that make you feel?”
Williamson said: “Like a failure. Logan never told the truth and I thought it was bad parenting. Everybody knew he was a sweet boy but Jay said he was lying. Now I’m second guessing everything with Jay.
“I thought I was failing Logan as a mum and [Cole] said he had to step in because he was the only person who could control and discipline him. The only thing I did was slap him on the back of the wrist.”
She added: “[Cole] found every excuse to have a go at Logan but it was never physical….
“It got to the point where I couldn’t control [Logan] and [Cole] said: ‘If you can’t control him, I’ll control him’. He said: ‘The only way this boy knows punishment is pain’.
When asked if Cole had been violent to Logan before she said July 29 was the worse it had ever been.
She said when Logan was put in the corner he would pull “dirty face” which would wind Cole up and would smile when he was being told off.
DS Burt said: “You were aware [Cole] punched him and threw him on the floor?”
Williamson said: “Yes. I didn’t do anything.”
Williamson was asked again about the lights in the kitchen switching on and how she could have been the only person to do it as Cole and the youth had left the house with Logan’s body.
She said: “I’ve told you it must have been the security light. I’m not adding anything to my previous statement. No comment.”
The defendant was asked again about Logan’s injuries but claimed she couldn’t comment on it because she was asleep. She added: “Has anyone spoken to a doctor about my medication?”
DS Burt said: “You presented John Cole as a good man.”
She said: “He’s not been violent towards me. He’s a good man but he’s got an angry streak. He’s a wicked father but when it comes to punishment he’s too harsh. I don’t know who Jay is anymore… He’s a good man, a good father, a good partner, but he has his violent outbursts.”
The officers ask about Williamson’s medication and whether it made her confused. She said: “Jay’s going to blame this on memory loss. Medication does make me feel confused but I would remember about that for Christ's sake.”
She was asked if she had changed her story and if she was up in the night. She said: “No comment, I was not awake.”
Logan Mwangi murder trial hears what his mum said in police interviews