Overview

• The hearing, opened July 1 by Assistant South Wales coroner Rachel Knight, recorded a provisional verdict of multiple traumatic injuries in Clare Williamson’s June 16 fall from Southerndown cliffs.
• Williamson, 64, had emailed her daughter in prison expressing intent to end her life, and prison authorities alerted South Wales Police before discovering her body below the cliff.
• Five-year-old Logan Mwangi was tortured and murdered in July 2021 by his mother Angharad Williamson, her partner John Cole and stepbrother Craig Mulligan, all serving minimum terms of 28, 29 and five years respectively.
• Prosecutors highlighted that Cole’s affiliation with the far-right National Front and Logan’s mixed-race background contributed to the boy’s dehumanisation and brutal treatment.
• Coroner Knight adjourned the inquest for further evidence on the effects of grief-driven trauma and systemic responses following the high-profile child abuse case.