Murderers get life
THE murder of a lone, vulnerable woman by two convicted killers was such an exceptional case it deserved a whole life sentence, a judge has said.
Mr Justice Morris said only Stephen Unwin and William McFall knew exactly what happened to Quyen Ngoc Nguyen at Unwin’s property in Shiney Row near Sunderland last August. Both men, who had already served life sentences for murders, played a role in the pre-meditated attack on the vulnerable Vietnamese woman, the judge said. THE Queen has paid tribute to the efforts of the Royal Tank Regiment as she presented the unit with a new standard.
As Colonel-in-Chief of the regiment, the Queen hosted its soldiers and officers at Windsor Castle and told them their “reputation for hard work and ingenuity endures”.
The Queen highlighted the “unbreakable connection” that has existed between the Sovereign and the Royal Tank Regiment since King George V, her grandfather, visited trials of early tanks at Elveden in Suffolk in July 1916.
She told the servicemen, who were joined by their partners: “Of course much has changed since 1916. Technology has evolved, and the regiment with it.
“But the regiment’s reputation for hard work and ingenuity endures. And the bond within tank crews, within squadrons and within the regiment remains undiminished. The standard is the symbol of that bond between the men and women who serve in the regiment and of your allegiance to the Sovereign and to the nation.
“It bears the place-names of the regiment’s hard-won battle honours and, in an increasingly uncertain world, it serves to remind us of the sacrifices which have been made in the past on behalf of the nation.”