Logan Mwangi’s mother drastically changed her appearance in a desperate bid to avoid being recognized by inmates after his murder.
Anharad Williamson, 31, was jailed alongside her boyfriend John Cole, 40, and his stepson Craig Mulligan, 14, for murdering her five-year-old son in July last year.
Logan was found dumped in the River Ogmore near his home in Bridgend, South Wales, after suffering catastrophic injuries similar to those seen in car crash victims.
In dashcam footage released by police, Williamson can be seen with bright pink hair as she screams and sobs, telling police “I haven’t done anything wrong” after they arrive at her home to arrest her on suspicion of murder.
But images from the ITV documentary The Killing of Logan Mwangi show the mother with dark brown hair just weeks later.
During the murder trial at Cardiff Crown Court, jurors heard evidence from Joan Brooks, an inmate at HMP Eastwood Park in Gloucestershire, about Williamson’s dramatic transformation after arriving there.
Brooks, who was on the same cleaning team as Williamson, said the mother had changed her name to ‘Angie’ and told her she had been offered a ‘change of identity’, Wales Online reported.
Anharad Williamson can be seen with bright pink hair in police body cam footage from the day he was arrested on suspicion of murdering her five-year-old son
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She told the court: “She asked me if she knew who she was, if I had heard of her. I hadn’t heard of her, I didn’t know her name or anything about her and she basically told me why I should know who she is…
“She said, ‘Did you hear about Baby Bridgend, the boy who was killed and thrown into the river?’ I was his mother… It was like she was telling me what she bought from the shops.
Anharad Williamson, 31, claims she was offered an ‘identity switch’ to blend in with other inmates
(South Wales Police)
“She said she was there for her own protection … She said she was offered to change her identity, dye her hair, change her name, go from wearing glasses to wearing contact lenses.”
During her own testimony, Williamson also described being taken to jail after being charged with perverting the course of justice.
Anharad Williamson appeared in the dock with dark brown hair as she gave evidence at Cardiff Crown Court
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She told the court: “I turned up and was bombarded with insults from the other girls. “Child killer, kill yourself before we kill you, wrong, f****.”
Williamson was placed in the prison’s medical unit and was on 24-hour duty for a month.
Describing what prison officials told her, Williamson added: “They can’t protect you from everything, they isolated me from everyone.
Five-year-old Logan Mwangi, whose body was found in the Ogmore River
(South Wales Police)
“They changed my name from Angharad to Angie and where I had bright pink hair they said ‘Dye your hair, here’s glasses, change your image, we’ll try to blend you in as much as we can.’
Williamson was told by a judge at Cardiff Crown Court that she will spend at least 28 years behind bars, while Cole will serve a minimum of 29 years in custody.
Mulligan was sentenced to a minimum of 15 years in prison.
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