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Murder jury shown gun video footage

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the song Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd played in the background, has been shown .

The trial heard that thevideo, Jurors have watched bizarre which appears to have video footage of a man on trial been shot by mobile phone or for murder posing with a small camera, had been sent gun. from McFall’s phone to Unwin’s

Stephen Unwin and William on March 27 last year. McFall are accused The close-up footage of keeping Quyen Nguyen shows McFall in different captive at a house for four poses with the black weapon, hours which he points to his

Prosecutor­sclaimshew­as own head briefly. “rapedandin­capacitate­d”beforeshea­ndherAudiA­4were The clip, which lasts less than a minute, appeared to dumped and set on fire at a be recorded inside a house dirt track in Shiney Row. and at least one other person

Both men are being tried could be seen in the background, by a jury at Newcastle Crown looking away from Court, where footage of McFall the camera. handling a gun, while The footage appears to have been taken by McFall himself.

It was found when detectives investigat­ed and retrieved informatio­n from the handsets belonging to the two men.

Miss Nguyen’s remains, whichwereb­adlydamage­dby fire, were found when emergency services were called to a dirt track at Success Road, in Shiney Row, after reports of a fire last August.

Unwin, 40, of St. Oswald’s Terrace, Houghton, and McFall, 51, who is originally from Northern Ireland but now of Waterloo Road, Blackpool, both deny her murder and rape.

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