Logan Mwangi murder: Previous injuries treated as accident

Hospital doctors failed to stock with kid extortion services a database of "significant" injuries a five-year-old lad suffered 11 months earlier helium was murdered, a lawsuit reappraisal has found.

Logan Mwangi had a breached limb and aggregate bruises crossed his assemblage erstwhile helium was taken to A&E successful August 2020.

But a paediatric advisor said these injuries were accidental and did not marque a kid extortion referral.

Logan's mother, Angharad Williamson, 31, is present serving astatine slightest 28 years successful jailhouse for the execution successful July 2021.

His stepfather John Cole, 40, volition service astatine slightest 29 years successful situation and Craig Mulligan, 14, was fixed a condemnation of astatine slightest 15 years.

A Child Practice Review (CPR) has looked astatine however antithetic agencies were progressive with Logan's household successful the 17 months earlier his death.

It has recommended that Cwm Taf Morgannwg wellness committee committee an autarkic reappraisal into however it identifies and investigates non-accidental injuries.

The study said that if the injuries had been shared with societal services, due enactment could person been taken to safeguard Logan.

On 16 August 2020, Logan was taken to A&E aft a autumn down the stairs, which his parent described arsenic accidental.

A&E made a referral to Bridgend children's services to study that determination was a hold successful Logan being taken to infirmary aft the fall.

However, portion Logan was successful infirmary a further appraisal was made and a paediatric doc took 31 images of different "significant" injuries which included bruising to his forehead, ears, cheeks, limb and a carpet bruise connected his chin.

The reappraisal said immoderate wellness unit were "uncomfortable" astir the decisions astir Logan but felt incapable to explicit their concerns.

It added that determination was a civilization successful the wellness committee wherever unit were reluctant to situation decisions made by much qualified professionals.

The paediatric advisor did not see Logan to beryllium a kid "who had sustained a non-accidental injury" and determination was nary grounds that accusation astir the injuries was shared with agencies extracurricular the wellness board.

The reappraisal makes 10 recommendations arsenic portion of "significant halfway learning," to beryllium carried retired locally by the wellness committee and section authorization and 5 much which request to beryllium brought successful Wales-wide.

It follows an August 2021 study that raised "serious concerns" astir children's services successful Bridgend.

In that report, Care Inspectorate Wales (CIW) said "urgent action" was needed but noted immoderate improvements had been made since an inspection 4 months earlier

This latest review, commissioned by Cwm Taf Morgannwg Safeguarding Board, praises the constabulary for their effect and besides the relation played by Logan's school.

It besides said the archetypal kid extortion study by societal services was an "accurate and concise assessment" of the risks and needs of Logan and his family, contempt being a "complicated and analyzable task to achieve."

Logan died aft Williamson, Cole and Mulligan subjected him to a "brutal and sustained" attack, leaving him with 56 injuries, including tears successful his liver and bowel.

Cole and Mulligan past dumped his assemblage successful the River Ogmore, conscionable 250m (820ft) from his location successful the Sarn country of Bridgend.

Police officers recovered Logan partially submerged successful the stream wearing his dinosaur pyjama bottoms and a Spider-Man top.

Mrs Justice Jefford said the onslaught was "nothing abbreviated of horrifying".

Mulligan was not related to immoderate of them, but Cole had raised him since helium was 9 months aged and considered himself a begetter figure.

The reappraisal details the analyzable inheritance of household relationships, successful which Cole and Williamson lived astatine points successful a polyamorous narration with different semipermanent spouse of Cole, the parent of Mulligan.

The lawsuit is besides acceptable against the inheritance of the Covid-19 pandemic, which had a important interaction connected moving practices, arsenic good arsenic Covid being utilized by the household arsenic a obstruction to prosecute with services.

This besides led to an lack of one-to-one sessions with Logan extracurricular the household home, partially owed to restrictions and partially owed to pressures from unit lack successful societal services owed to Covid.

Its recommendations see a absorption connected sharing accusation betwixt agencies wrong Cwm Taf Morgannwg's safeguarding hub and raising consciousness connected however the nationalist tin rise concerns astir imaginable maltreatment and signs of coercive control.

The reappraisal besides said Logan's household circumstances had "complex dynamics", and the household courts successful aboriginal should see 12-week minimum periods to springiness much clip for societal idiosyncratic assessments, erstwhile successful this lawsuit they were fixed lone 4 weeks.

August 16, 2020: Logan is taken to infirmary by Williamson. She suspected helium dislocated his enarthrosis erstwhile helium fell down the stairs the time before. Doctors find Logan has breached limb and marque a referral to societal services.

January 21, 2021: Williamson calls 101 and during the speech tells the relation Mulligan had confessed to pushing Logan down the stairs erstwhile helium fractured his arm.

March 16: Logan placed connected kid extortion registry which means societal workers person to sojourn each 10 days.

June: Social workers successful Bridgend region Logan and his younger sibling from the kid extortion registry arsenic helium was nary longer considered to beryllium astatine important hazard of harm. He was inactive considered to beryllium a kid successful need.

July 21: Logan tests affirmative for Covid-19 and has to self-isolate.

July 26: Family Court o.k. Cole and Williamson's custody exertion for Mulligan, who moves successful with them 5 days earlier Logan's murder.

July 29/30: Logan is earnestly assaulted. The accounts of Williamson, Cole and Mulligan vary.

July 30: Mulligan's societal idiosyncratic Deborah Williams visits the level but is denied introduction arsenic Logan has Covid-19. She stays for 20 minutes and leaves without seeing oregon proceeding Logan.

July 31: CCTV shows Cole and Mulligan dumping Logan's assemblage successful the River Ogmore astatine 02:43.