Mother’s murderers told they will never be freed
TWO convicted killers who tortured and murdered a Vietnamese mother-of-two while out on licence have been told they will never be freed.
Stephen Unwin, 40, and William McFall, 51, murdered Vietnamese nail technician Quyen Ngoc Nguyen after a four-hour ordeal and dumped her body in her car before torching it last August.
She had been lured to Unwin’s home in Shiney Row near Sunderland, where McFall lay in wait, Newcastle Crown Court has heard.
Unwin went on to rape the 28-year-old who was just 5ft and weighed seven stone.
Mr Justice Morris ruled they should never be released, sentencing both to whole-life jail terms.
The judge said: “Stephen Unwin, you are a calculating, manipulating and ruthless killer. William John McFall, you are an extremely violent man capable of monstrous behaviour.”
The victim’s sister, Quynh Ngoc Nguyen, 35, had earlier read a statement, saying: “We cannot comprehend how men like this can live freely in this country.
“My sister believed, as I did, that you came to this country for a safer life, with better opportunities for herself and her children.”
She said their parents and her sister’s two children had been left heartbroken by the actions of the murderers.
Unwin battered a pensioner to death during a break-in at his home on Christmas Day 1998. He admitted murder, was sentenced to life and released on licence in December 2012. While in prison, he met McFall, who was also serving life for murdering a pensioner in 1996. He was jailed for life and released on licence in October 2010.