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Handymen Stephen Unwin and John McFall, found guilty of torturing young mum and burning her alive in her car – After taking a grinning selfie to celebrate, killers robbed victim post mortem

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><div class&equals;"sun-row sun-container&lowbar;&lowbar;home-section--breaking">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"col sun-col-6">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"teaser-item teaser&lowbar;&lowbar;video teaser-item--breaking">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"teaser&lowbar;&lowbar;image-container"><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;">Chilling selfie of twisted &OpenCurlyQuote;curry killers’ who ate takeout meal&comma; as mum lay on the floor and then took grinning photo after setting her body ablaze<&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"teaser&lowbar;&lowbar;image-container"><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;">Maintenance workers&comma; Stephen Unwin and John McFall were convicted of torturing and depraved killing of Vietnamese nail bar worker&comma; Quyen Ngoc Nguyen on Aug 14&comma; 2017<br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"teaser&lowbar;&lowbar;image-container"><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;">Mother-of-two Quyen Nguyen&comma; was found dead in a burnt-out car in August last year after her killers had lured her to Unwin&&num;8217&semi;s  house in Newcastle&comma; UK<br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"teaser&lowbar;&lowbar;image-container"><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;">At trial court saw chilling selfie of the twisted killers grinning smugly&comma; took photo&comma; after setting her victim ablaze in her Audi A4 &&num;8211&semi; <&sol;span><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;">Unwin and McFall&comma; both convicted murderers&comma; ordered and ate curry takeout as their victim lay on the floor&comma; after she had been raped and beaten with a handgun<br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"teaser&lowbar;&lowbar;image-container"><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"> Unwin and his accomplice John McFall spent four hours attacking 28-year-old Quyen Nguyen&comma; before raiding her bank account as her corpse smouldered in a secluded field&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"teaser&lowbar;&lowbar;image-container"><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;">William McFall&comma; 51&comma; was found guilty of Quyen&&num;8217&semi;s murder &&num;8211&semi; but not her rape&comma; <&sol;span><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;">40-year-old Stephen Unwin was found guilty of rape and murder<&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"teaser&lowbar;&lowbar;image-container"><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;">The victim&&num;8217&semi;s family and rights activists are demanding life sentences without parole<&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"sun-row sun-row&lowbar;&lowbar;article-content">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"col sun-col-4">&NewLine;<article class&equals;"article">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"article-switcheroo">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"article&lowbar;&lowbar;content article&lowbar;&lowbar;content--intro"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-291172" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;03&sol;Stephen-Unwin-and-John-McFall-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Stephen Unwin and John McFall 1" width&equals;"723" height&equals;"960" &sol;><strong>Thieves and murderers&colon; The grinning pair of Stephen Unwin&comma; &lbrack;left&rsqb;&comma; and John McFall&comma; &lbrack;right&rsqb;&comma; took a celebratory selfie after they murdered Quyen Nguyen&comma; torched her body and her car&comma; before looting her account<br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"article&lowbar;&lowbar;content article&lowbar;&lowbar;content--intro">A pair of convicted murderers masquerading as home maintenance workers in Newcastle&comma; UK&comma;  have been found guilty of the rape&comma; abuse and murder of a young mum who they burnt alive in her car&period; The depraved killers then took a grinning selfie to celebrate&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Stephen Unwin&comma; 40&comma; and John McFall&comma; 51&comma; spent four hours attacking Vietnamese nail bar worker Quyen Ngoc Nguyen&comma; 28&comma; before raiding her bank account as her corpse smouldered in a secluded field&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Nguyen was allegedly murdered after turning up at Unwin’s home in Houghton-le-Spring on the evening of August 14 last year&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;article>&NewLine;<article class&equals;"article">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"article-switcheroo"><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-291185" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;03&sol;Quyen-Ngoc-Nguyen-1-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Quyen Ngoc Nguyen 1&period;jpg" width&equals;"721" height&equals;"960" &sol;><&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"article-switcheroo"><strong>Victim&colon; Quyen Ngoc Nguyen died after being lured to a house where she was brutally raped&period; She gave up her bank details under torture&comma; before her tormentors burnt her alive in her car<br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;article>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Newcastle Crown Court heard how the pair lured the single mum-of-two to Unwin&&num;8217&semi;s house on the outskirts of Newcastle before beating her until she surrendered her bank details&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Quyen standing at only 5ft&comma; was then raped and assaulted with a handgun before the fiends paused her ordeal to order and eat a takeout dish of curry&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Prosecutors said the suspects held the victim captive&comma; raped&comma; extorted and possibly asphyxiated during her time in the house&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Four hours after she arrived at Unwin&&num;8217&semi;s home&comma; the 28-year-old part time realtor from  Killingworth&comma; North Tyneside in Newcastle&comma; was carried out in a white sheet&comma; placed in the back of her car&comma; driven to a track and set on fire&comma;<br &sol;>&NewLine;They then dragged her into her Audi A4 before torching it as she clung to life in the back seat&period; Twisted McFall&comma; the court heard&comma; then took a &&num;8220&semi;smiling selfie&&num;8221&semi; of himself and Unwin in another car after her death&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6><span class&equals;"article&lowbar;&lowbar;bc&lowbar;video-caption"><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-291186" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;03&sol;Unwin-and-McFall-caught-on-camera-carrying-Nguyens-body-from-the-house-where-they-killed-her&period;png" alt&equals;"Unwin and McFall caught on camera carrying Nguyen's body from the house where they killed her" width&equals;"674" height&equals;"378" &sol;>Crime scene&colon; &ZeroWidthSpace;Stephen Unwin and William McFall were caught on camera &lbrack;circle&rsqb;&comma; carrying Nguyen&&num;8217&semi;s body from the house where they killed her<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span class&equals;"article&lowbar;&lowbar;bc&lowbar;video-caption"><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-291181" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;03&sol;William-McFall-3&period;png" alt&equals;"William McFall 3&period;png" width&equals;"646" height&equals;"685" &sol;><br &sol;>&NewLine;John McFall was found guilty of Quyen&&num;8217&semi;s murder&comma; but freed on the rape charge<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span class&equals;"article&lowbar;&lowbar;bc&lowbar;video-caption"><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-291180" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;03&sol;Stephen-Unwin-3&period;png" alt&equals;"Stephen Unwin 3&period;png" width&equals;"639" height&equals;"576" &sol;>Stephen Unwin was found guilty of both rape and murder&period; The crime was committed in his home on the outskirts of Newcastle <&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span class&equals;"article&lowbar;&lowbar;bc&lowbar;video-caption"><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-291177" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;03&sol;Quyen-Ngoc-Nguyens-body-was-found-in-her-burnt-out-car-wrapped-in-a-blanket&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Quyen Ngoc Nguyen's body was found in her burnt out car wrapped in a blanket&period;jpg" width&equals;"960" height&equals;"611" &sol;>Unwin and McFall tried to cover their crime with arson&period; Nguyen&&num;8217&semi;s body was found in her burnt out car wrapped in a blanket<br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>The victim&&num;8217&semi;s  sister Quyhn Ngoc Nguyen&comma; had earlier voiced her pessimism when it comes to obtaining a good measure of justice for her sister when she said&colon; &&num;8216&semi;I think Britain will be soft on my sister&&num;8217&semi;s killers&&num;8217&semi;&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;My sister has passed away and nothing can change that&comma;&&num;8217&semi; she added<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;But I believe that if these two people were released at some point in the future&comma; then definitely some innocent people could be harmed&period; I think they should never be released&comma; they are evil&&num;8217&semi;&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;I don&&num;8217&semi;t want to blame anyone but it seems that the Government is too kind to these people&comma; because what they have done is terrible&&num;8217&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"article-boxout">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"article-boxout&lowbar;&lowbar;content theme&lowbar;&lowbar;background-color-rgba-20">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"article&lowbar;&lowbar;content--intro"><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-291179" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;03&sol;Quyhn-Ngoc-Nguyen-1&period;png" alt&equals;"Quyhn Ngoc Nguyen 1&period;png" width&equals;"702" height&equals;"467" &sol;>Quyhn Ngoc Nguyen &&num;8211&semi; &&num;8216&semi;I think Britain will be soft on my sister&&num;8217&semi;s killers&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"article-boxout">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"article-boxout&lowbar;&lowbar;content theme&lowbar;&lowbar;background-color-rgba-20">&NewLine;<p>I took all the courage that I have in order to know exactly what happened to my sister&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;When I hear the stories from the two defendants&comma; I was so resentful&comma; I couldn&&num;8217&semi;t control myself&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;They make up stories that you just cannot imagine how they do things like that&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>Her sister Quyhn clutched a framed picture and wept in the gallery as the verdicts were handed down&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"article-boxout">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"article-boxout&lowbar;&lowbar;content theme&lowbar;&lowbar;background-color-rgba-20"><strong><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-291178" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;03&sol;The-victims-relatives-and-family-attended-court-wearing-headbands-in-her-memory&period;-They-also-carried-her-portrait&period;jpg" alt&equals;"The victim's relatives and family attended court wearing headbands in her memory&period; They also carried her portrait&period;jpg" width&equals;"960" height&equals;"602" &sol;>The victim&&num;8217&semi;s sister <&sol;strong><&sol;strong><strong>Quyhn Ngoc Nguyen &lbrack;holding Quyen&&num;8217&semi;s portrait&rsqb;&comma;  as well as other relatives and friends&comma; attended court wearing headbands in her memory&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>Both men were found guilty of murder &&num;8211&semi; but only Unwin was convicted of her rape&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Jurors heard before the victim arrived at Unwin&&num;8217&semi;s home in Tyne and Wear&comma; McFall texted his friend saying&colon; &&num;8220&semi;&&num;8221&semi;We raping the c&ast;&ast;&ast;&ast;&period;&&num;8221&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Unwin replied&colon; &&num;8220&semi;Remove daft s&ast;&ast;&ast; like that lol&period;&&num;8221&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Quyen had come to the UK in 2010 from Vietnam&comma; and helped compatriots find housing in the North-East&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The court heard the men&comma; both maintenance workers&comma; met the victim through her involvement in rental properties&period;<strong><br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6 id&equals;"bc-video-5759035484001"><span class&equals;"article&lowbar;&lowbar;bc&lowbar;video-caption"><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-291183" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;03&sol;Stephen-Unwin-and-William-McFall&ZeroWidthSpace;-&ZeroWidthSpace;walk-home-after-setting-Quyen-Nguyens-body-alight&period;png" alt&equals;"Stephen Unwin and William McFall&ZeroWidthSpace; &ZeroWidthSpace;walk home after setting Quyen Nguyen's body alight&period;png" width&equals;"732" height&equals;"413" &sol;>The suspects Stephen Unwin and William McFall&ZeroWidthSpace; &ZeroWidthSpace;walk home after setting Quyen  Nguyen&&num;8217&semi;s body on fire&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<div>The court heard it is unclear why the single mum&comma; who was &&num;8220&semi;tiny&&num;8221&semi; in stature&comma; visited Unwin&&num;8217&semi;s house on August 14 but prosecutors say she walked into a &&num;8220&semi;trap&&num;8221&semi;&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Prosecutors Jamie Hill said some of the properties the victim was involved with had been used as cannabis farms and claimed the defendants were also there to steal the crops&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The court heard it is likely she was &&num;8220&semi;just alive&&num;8221&semi; when she&comma; and her car&comma; were set alight&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Mr Hill added&colon; &&num;8220&semi;The prosecution says that she was sexually abused and raped and also threatened into providing her PIN numbers for her two bank cards&period;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<h6><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-291195" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;03&sol;Quyen-Ngoc-Nguyen-6&period;png" alt&equals;"Quyen Ngoc Nguyen 6&period;png" width&equals;"693" height&equals;"512" &sol;>Prosecution said <span class&equals;"article&lowbar;&lowbar;bc&lowbar;video-caption">&&num;8216&semi;s the killers<&sol;span> set Ngoc Nguyen&&num;8217&semi;s car ablaze while she was still alive in the back seat after she had been raped&comma; and abused<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;It may be that they were also after the whereabouts of other cannabis growers&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;When the defendants had finished abusing her&comma; and gained access to her money&comma; they decided to dispose of her&comma; determined to destroy the evidence of what they had been doing&period;&&num;8221&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;While Unwin and McFall blamed each other for the murder&comma; court documents stated that the victim&&num;8217&semi;s DNA was found inside the pants worn by Unwin and there were traces in McFall&&num;8217&semi;s shorts&comma; as well&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Prosecutors said the murder was motivated by money and sex and the defendants both&comma; convicted murderers&comma; have a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;ruthless streak” and were &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;in it together”&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Jamie Hill told the court&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;They were in it together&comma; acting together&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;”We say they have displayed a callous and brutal disregard for everyone other than themselves&comma;” Hill said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;In a statement Quyen&&num;8217&semi;s sister said&colon; &&num;8220&semi;I believe that if these two people were released at some point in the future&comma; then definitely some innocent people could be harmed&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;I think they should never be released&comma; they are evil&period;&&num;8221&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;National Victims&&num;8217&semi; Association founder David Hines said&colon; &&num;8220&semi;A life sentence should mean a minimum of 40 years behind bars&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<form class&equals;"skinny-signup skinny-signup-top publication-theme-border" data-mod&equals;"skinnySignup" data-json&equals;"&lbrace;&quot&semi;mailingListId&quot&semi;&colon;&quot&semi;37314&quot&semi;&comma;&quot&semi;displayName&quot&semi;&colon;&quot&semi;daily&quot&semi;&comma;&quot&semi;contentId&quot&semi;&colon;9931305&comma;&quot&semi;endpointUrl&quot&semi;&colon;&quot&semi;https&colon;&sol;&sol;comm-proxy&period;tm-awx&period;com&sol;api&sol;publications&sol;nechronicle&sol;subscriptions&sol;&quot&semi;&rcub;"><&sol;form>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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