Sister: ‘They should never be released – they are evil’
Quyen Ngoc Nguyen’s murderers are “evil” and should never be released from jail, her heartbroken sister has said.
Quynh Ngoc Nguyen revealed the nightmare she and her family have lived ever since her sister Quyen was murdered
Speaking after the case, with the help of a translator, Quyen’s sister, Quynh Ngoc Nguyen, said: “My sister is very kind and honest. Her friends even told her [she was] too naive. Her friends kept telling her a lot of jokes, but she still believed everything that her friends tell her. That is the most lovely characteristic of Quyen that I can remember.
“Her friends and even the clients of the Glitter Nail Salon where she used to work are still sending sending flowers because they miss her so much.
“My family and myself feel empty and we feel very sorry for the incident.
“Her life was very simple. In the morning we would go to work then in the afternoon we would go home and cook for our families, for our children. We would play with them as a small family and we would go to sleep together as a family.
“Her life was so simple I can’t imagine that anything terrible could happen to her.
“I thought that a life working in any country like the UK would be wonderful for anyone.”
Speaking about the impact Quyen’s death had on her children, Quynh added: “Their life has changed dramatically. My sister and I and our children used to live in a very happy family. Since my sister passed away David, my sister’s child, has to move to another area of the country to live with his father.”
Quynh said how both she and her children miss David and described how her daughter drew a picture of her and David holding hands with Quyen - who was also known as Anna - which she wanted to send to David.
Reflecting on how Quyen’s murder had affected their parents, Quynh added: “I didn’t dare to call my parents, My parents received information from my friends and at first they just told my parents that Anna/Quyen just had an accident and was staying in the hospital.
“After they just told my parents that Anna was getting worse - nobody dared to say that Anna had actually passed away. It was not until the news broke that my parents got the information.”
“The pain that my parents had to experience is beyond anybody’s imagination. You are probably also parents you can imagine how painful it is to lose your children.
“It is very difficult to give your children a life like this and suddenly then everything is lost.”
Quynh had sat in court throughout the trial, listening to the harrowing evidence.
She added: “I was not brave at all but I did my best.
“It took all the courage that I had to know exactly what happened to my sister.
“Sometimes when I hear the stories from those to defendants I was very resentful and I can’t control myself.
“They made up a story and I can’t imagine how they can do things like that. They just make up a story in order to get away from the crime that they have made and alleviate the sentence.
“I just want to know what kind of people in humankind can do anything like that. It was very brutal to do anything like that to my sister.
“I can imagine that when my sister first met them she thought that the two defendants were kind [people] as well. She is very naive.
“I can imagine her smile when he entered the house. She would be very friendly to Mr Unwin and I cannot imagine any person could do anything like that to such a nice girl.”
The fact both had Unwin and McFall had murdered before and had been released from jail only added to the family’s agony.
Quynh added: “I don’t want to blame anyone but it seems that the Government is too kind to those persons because what they have done is too terrible.
“My sister has passed away and nothing can change that.”