Pair face whole-life term for torture and murder of woman

KILLERS WHO teamed up to again commit murder have been warned they face a whole-life term for torturing a Vietnamese woman then torching her body in a car.

Maintenance men Stephen Unwin, 40, and William McFall, 51, put Quyen Ngoc Nguyen, through a four-hour ordeal after she was lured to Unwin’s home in Shiney Row, Tyne and Wear.

Unwin raped her and she was forced to hand over her PINs so they could raid £1,000 from her bank. McFall even posed for a grinning selfie after the pair had committed their depraved and greed-fuelled crime.

He was cleared of the rape charge following the trial at Newcastle Crown Court.

It was the second time each had murdered, having both killed pensioners in the 1990s before they met in prison. Each served 13 years of a life sentence before they were released on licence.

Mr Justice Morris said mandatory life sentences will follow and he warned them they may be never be released. He will set their minimum term at a hearing next month. THERE COULD be a jump in households struggling to pay back their debts if interest rates were increased to about two per cent, a Bank of England document says, with low mortgage rates keeping down borrowing costs.

Last week, the Bank kept the base rate on hold at 0.5 per cent, but left the door open for a potential rise in May.

Minutes of the latest Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting

Firefighters discovered Ms Nguyen’s badly burned body in the back of her Audi after it had been torched beside allotments last August.

The jury heard how her killers ate a curry they had cooked as their victim lay dying.

The mother of two worked at her sister’s nail bar but also helped Vietnamese people find accommodation when she came across Unwin, who worked for landlords maintaining properties.

She would not have known he was a life prisoner, out on licence for murdering a pensioner in 1998. Tellingly, he also set fire to his elderly victim’s house in a bid to cover his tracks.

McFall, who is from Northern Ireland, also murdered a pensioner during a 1996 break-in.

The killers met in the prison system at HMP Swaleside, a Category B institution, in Kent.

After the trial, the victim’s sister Quyhn Ngoc Nguyen branded the killers “evil” and said they should never be released.

McFall made a series of outbursts from the dock while Unwin kept his head bowed. showed that two of the nine members voted to raise rates to 0.75 per cent amid concerns over inflation as wage growth has started to pick up.

The document said although the share of lending at very high loan-to-value ratios of more than 95 per cent has remained significantly below pre-crisis levels, the share of lending at LTV (loan-to-value) ratios just below that has recovered from its crisis troughs.