Murder Behind Closed Doors

Sarn, near Bridgend, a typical South Wales village where warmth and friendliness are common, and rugby is a religion.

Logan Mwangi was born here in 2016, the first child of Angharad Williamson.

Angharad Williamson was privately educated.

She was the daughter of a City of London stockbroker.

ITV Wales reporter Hamish Oskary.

but she could also be prone to going off the rails slightly.

She was involved in some petty crime, for example, being arrested after using her mother's credit card.

But then she seemed to be settling down again.

She got a job as a manager of a phone shop in West London, and there she met Benjamin Mwangi.

Soon after becoming pregnant, Angharad moved from Essex to South Wales to be near her mother.

Her relationship with Ben Mwangi, who'd been a calming influence, didn't last, and soon she was back on the dating merry-go-round.

In 2019, after a short and turbulent marriage to a soldier, she went on a night out in Bridgend, where she met John J. Cole.

Cole had moved from rugby in England in 2017 for a fresh start.

He'd had a life of many criminal convictions, things like assault, battery, perverting the course of justice.

But he was also known to have some racist views.

He had been associated with the National Front.

He was an avid gamer of violent games.

There was also a suggestion that Cole was a fantasist, that he told people that he'd been in the SAS.

He had shown a video of a nighttime operation to Angharad, saying that he'd taken it during a tour of Afghanistan, even though he had no previous experience in the military.

Despite Cole's dubious past, Williamson was smitten, inviting him to move into the two-bedroomed flat she shared with Logan.

It was from here, on July 31st, 2021, that she called 999, triggering a huge police investigation and a story that would occupy local journalists like Bronwen Weatherby for months.

Can you please help me, please?

Where are you?

My son, I'm not here.

I won't come in, I'm not here.

Sarn, near Bridgend, a typical South Wales village where warmth and friendliness are common, and rugby is a religion.

Logan Mwangi was born here in 2016, the first child of Angharad Williamson.

Angharad Williamson was privately educated.

She was the daughter of a City of London stockbroker.

ITV Wales reporter Hamish Oskary.

but she could also be prone to going off the rails slightly.

She was involved in some petty crime, for example, being arrested after using her mother's credit card.

But then she seemed to be settling down again.

She got a job as a manager of a phone shop in West London, and there she met Benjamin Mwangi.

Soon after becoming pregnant, Angharad moved from Essex to South Wales to be near her mother.

Her relationship with Ben Mwangi, who'd been a calming influence, didn't last, and soon she was back on the dating merry-go-round.

In 2019, after a short and turbulent marriage to a soldier, she went on a night out in Bridgend, where she met John J. Cole.

Cole had moved from rugby in England in 2017 for a fresh start.

He'd had a life of many criminal convictions, things like assault, battery, perverting the course of justice.

But he was also known to have some racist views.

He had been associated with the National Front.

He was an avid gamer of violent games.

There was also a suggestion that Cole was a fantasist, that he told people that he'd been in the SAS.

He had shown a video of a nighttime operation to Angharad, saying that he'd taken it during a tour of Afghanistan, even though he had no previous experience in the military.

Despite Cole's dubious past, Williamson was smitten, inviting him to move into the two-bedroomed flat she shared with Logan.

It was from here, on July 31st, 2021, that she called 999, triggering a huge police investigation and a story that would occupy local journalists like Bronwen Weatherby for months.

Can you please help me, please?

Where are you?

My son, I'm not here.

I won't come in, I'm not here.