Talking about the cover-up, Jefford said what they did was “careful and calculated and not the product of panic”.<\/p>\n
“It is impossible to imagine the terror a five-year-old would feel suffering those horrific injuries inflicted upon him by those regarded as his family with the compliance of his mother.”<\/p>\n
The concealment of Logan’s body in the river, was described as “heartless”, “calculated and orchestrated”.<\/p>\n
Jefford told the trio they were “all responsible for Logan’s death and all the anguish that has flowed from it”.<\/p>\n
“Because he was killed in his own home, it is not possible to be sure what has happened to him,” she said.<\/p>\n
She described the injuries Logan suffered as “the sort of injuries seen in abused children”.<\/p>\n
Logan, a previously “smiling, cheerful little boy”, died after suffering a “brutal and sustained” attack at home, leaving him with 56 “catastrophic” injuries, including extensive bruising to the back of his head and tears in his liver and bowel.<\/p>\n
Cole was told he would serve a minimum term of 29 years in prison while Mulligan, would serve at least 15 years. All three were convicted of murdering Logan in July 2021.<\/p>\n
Mulligan – who was able to be publicly named<\/a> after a judge lifted an anonymity order, external<\/a> – is not the biological son of Cole but he raised him from the age of nine months and considered himself a father figure.<\/p>\n On Wednesday, Williamson was seen briefly on screen with dark hair and glasses as she listened to the hearing from HMP Downview Prison in Surrey, alongside a mental health support worker.<\/p>\n She did not speak at the hearing and Coroner David Regan said he understood she “wanted to observe”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Talking about the cover-up, Jefford said what they did was “careful and calculated and not the product of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-693307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}