‘Monstrous’ killer must spend life in jail

A murderer who was released from prison only to kill again in a “monstrous” attack on a woman has been condemned to die in prison after losing an appeal.

William McFall, 52, and an accomplice murdered Vietnamese nail technician Quyen Ngoc Nguyen in a four-hour ordeal on Wearside in August 2017.

She was lured to the house, raped by accomplice Stephen Unwin and brutally attacked before she was dumped in a car, which was then set alight, in Shiney Row.

McFall and Unwin had met in prison in Northern Ireland, where McFall, originally from Greencastle, Co Antrim, was serving a sentence for a murder committed in the 1990s.

In February last year, they were convicted of Ms Nguyen’s murder at Newcastle Crown Court and given life sentences.

The trial judge ordered that they serve “whole life tariffs”, meaning they would never be freed.

Yesterday McFall was back before a court as he launched an appeal against the term, claiming his crime was not so serious that he spend the rest of his life in jail.

But three senior judges, led by Lord Justice Gross, rejected his case at the Court of Appeal in London.

McFall claimed today that the whole life sentence he received was too tough.

But the judge said he was a previously convicted killer, capable of “monstrous” acts and who was “chillingly devoid of any human empathy”.

“He was party to the sexual and financial motivation behind the luring of the victim to the house and was party to the attack while she was there,” he said.

“The justice of this case plainly requires that he should spend the remainder of his life in prison.”

The appeal was refused.