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In the early morning hours of the 15th of August, 2017,
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a fire and rescue service in the northeast of England
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responded to a 999 call reporting a car on fire.
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Inside the car, the body of 28-year-old mother of two,
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Nguyen Anhoc Nguyen, from Vietnam.
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The flames were so intense that her body had been
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fused into the backseat of the car.
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This was an act that was premeditated and planned.
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Her killers were 50-year-old William McFall and 39-year-old Stephen Unwin,
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two convicted murderers.
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It was the evil of all evils. They're just evil people.
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The killers had met in prison where they struck up
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a deadly friendship.
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When Unwin and McFall joined forces, they really amplified their
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level of dangerousness and violence, because it's not just about
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committing crime and hurting people now. It's about doing that
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and performing it in front of another individual.
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In her final hour, their victims suffered unimaginable pain and
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cruelty at the hands of Stephen Unwin and William McFall,
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two of the world's most evil killers. In April 2018,
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Stephen Unwin and William McFall were on trial in the
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Crown Court at Newcastle, England, for the brutal murder of
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Gwynne Nguyen. Unwin was also charged with raping the 28-year-old
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from Vietnam. Covering the day-to-day court proceedings was North East
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reporter for The Sun newspaper, Robin Perry.
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Quinn was subjected to a horrific assault. She was attacked, beaten,
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strangled with a ligature, and then quite horrifically, Unwinner McFall
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injected her with a syringe full of whiskey. As she
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was incapacitated, far too badly injured to escape, Unwinner then
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subjected to a series of sexual assaults and raped her.
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This poor woman has lost her innocence and her life
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eventually to these two mindless thugs. And this wasn't just
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an act of opportunism.
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On the 25th of April 2018, Mr Justice Morris sentenced
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40-year-old Stephen Unwin and 51-year-old William McFall to life in prison.
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Both men were given not just life terms, but full
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life terms. There are two of only approximately 60 people
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in the country who have full life terms, which means.
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They will never be released. They will die behind bars.
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Lovely cheese.
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Real cheese.
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They are considered among the most dangerous criminals in the country.
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They are highly likely to kill someone else, to harm
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someone else, if they were ever released.
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This was not the first time Stephen Unwin and William
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McFall had killed. Both men were already convicted murderers before
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they attacked Gwyn.
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I think we do need to take a step back
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and say, why on earth were these two men released
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in the first place? They took people's lives away, and
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the circumstances in which those first murders happened were particularly heinous.
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William McFall's story begins in Northern Ireland. He was born
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in 1967 and grew up in the small town of
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Green Island near Carrickfergus in County Antrim.
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These were quite turbulent times in Northern Ireland, so... Things
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weren't particularly stable.
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There was always a.
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Kind of fear in the air about what might happen next.
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And he's a child who didn't really seem to have
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very much in the way of sort of guidance and
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direction and discipline. So right from the word go, he
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was kind of left to his own devices, really.
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Jimmy Smith knew McFall as a child.
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The early memories of McFall was him just running about
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in the estate with a pair of Wellington boots on
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and a pair of shorts. and just like a feral child.
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He didn't seem to have any friends at all, but
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everyone knew him. People did really avoid him because he
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was just... There was something not right.
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McFall grew up with two sisters and a brother.
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McFall and his other siblings seemed to have no discipline
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in the house at all. You know, they just ran wild.
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All of them.
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MacFarlane always had a weapon in his hand, whether it
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be a stick or a hammer or a knife. The
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most bizarre one was a chainsaw.
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This really does tell us that he wants to be
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seen as threatening. He attaches a value to violence. He
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wants other people to fear him.
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He wasn't really a violent man with anybody that could
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challenge him. but if it was someone weaker, then, yes,
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he would be violent, he would be very, very nasty,
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very vindictive, you know.
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There were early signs that McFall was a troubled boy
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with tendencies to cruelty.
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McFall had an altercation with one of the teachers in
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Silverstream Primary School, and later on that evening, he broke
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into the school, went to the teacher's praise topical fish
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tank and killed all the fish and put them under
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desks and between books. and nailed him to the blackboard
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as well. Just really bizarre behavior.
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There's also a story that he killed 40 mice by
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beheading them. He was a brutal little boy, a boy
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who set himself apart from the crowd by his ferocity.
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We do see this quite often in cases of people
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who go on to commit horrendous murders. We look back
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at their childhoods and they do seem to have animal
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cruelty within them. We know that he is using animals
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to exercise power, to exercise control. When you are a
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small child, you don't have really much physical control over
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other people.
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His actual nickname was Mad John when he was a kid.
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It just stuck with him.
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As a young adult, William Mad John McFall had several
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convictions for violence and firearms offences.
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McFall did what he wanted. But then, as he grew
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towards the second half of his 20s, again in jail,
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he brags to a fellow cellmate that he's going to
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plot to rob an elderly lady who lives basically 100
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yards from his house, whom he's convinced has loads of
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cash under a bed.
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William McFall lived on Station Road, not far from 86-year-old
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Martha Gilmore. Martha was a frail woman who had bad
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arthritis and struggled with movement. She relied on carers for help,
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and one of the carers to visit her regularly was
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community nurse Anne Scott.
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She was just a lady that I just hit it
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off with her from the word go and she was
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a lady that I was very, very fond of. She
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did go out using her two sticks but she would
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have been very slow and she was very fragile but
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fiercely independent and always made me very welcome.
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In the early hours of Sunday 5th May 1996, McFall,
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armed with a hammer, went to Martha Gilmore's semi-detached bungalow
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on Station Road with the intention of burgling her. He
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hoped to find loads of cash under her bed. He
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rang the doorbell. Nobody answered.
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She'd obviously been in bed because she was slow because
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of her reduced mobility.
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But, of course, McFall doesn't factor any of this into
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his thinking. Nobody comes to the door because she can't
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get up very quickly. She's simply an old lady who
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finds movement extremely difficult. He rings the doorbell again. No response.
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So McFall breaks in. By this point, Martha Gellhorn has
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got up and gone into the hallway. Now, McFall is
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in the hallway. realizes that the house isn't empty. He's
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convinced she can identify him. After all, they live about
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100 yards apart, so it's pretty likely she could. So
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without hesitation, he kills her. He hits her over the
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head with a hammer.
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McFall battered the frail old woman three times on the
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back of the head.
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This is a violent young man who acts on instinct
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and also has a vengeful temper. So rather than risk
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leaving Martha alive... He kills her. But not only that,
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he then drags her along the hallway so that he
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can get back out of the door again and on
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the way breaks her sternum.
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McFall fled the scene, leaving Martha dead in the hallway
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in a pool of her own blood.
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The news came on and it said an elderly lady
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had been murdered she lived in the station road in
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Green Island and I know this sounds ridiculous but I
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just knew in my heart that it was Martha.
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McFall was arrested within hours of the murder after police
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discovered fingerprints on Martha's front door which matched those held
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on file for William McFall.
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When his name came up, I wasn't surprised that McFall
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had killed her. It was obvious. The most striking thing
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was the violence behind it. It's out of order, killing
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an old woman.
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We often find this in cases of killers like this individual.
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They begin by targeting very vulnerable people because they are
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easier to control. It's almost like a testing out, essentially,
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of a particular offence, of a particular crime, to see
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if they can do it.
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This lady who was kind, who was genteel, who did
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nobody any harm, who should have been safe in the
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sanctuary of her own home. But no, it was invaded
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and she was horribly and brutally attacked. He didn't need
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to use a hammer on a wee frail lady like Martha.
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He could have pushed her out of his way. No
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one deserves to be attacked like that. But Martha was
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particularly defenseless, not only her age, but her frailty as well,
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against a young man wielding a hammer.
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It's despicable.
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On the 11th of April, 1997, William McFall was sentenced
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to life in prison at Belfast Crown Court for the
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murder of Martha Gilmore.
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This is a violent man, truly given his justice. It's
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a life sentence. for murder.
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McFall was sent to HMP Swaleside in Kent, England, where
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he was housed with like-minded individuals. During his time behind bars,
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he shared a cell with Stephen Unwin. The two convicted
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killers struck up a close friendship.
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Friendships within prison are an interesting thing because for some people,
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they will not want to continue those friendships when they
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get out because they want to tie over a new leaf,
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they want to start again. But on the other hand,
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prison friendships can often be the most meaningful, the deepest
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attachment that somebody has felt to another individual in their
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entire lives. And I think potentially that's what we're looking
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at in this case.
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Stephen Unwin's story begins in 1978. He was born on
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the 16th of February in Durham. He grew up with
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an older sister in Fence Houses, a working-class village near
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Sunderland in the northeast of England. Like McFall, he was
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a troubled boy from an early age.
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Unwin is a face, if you like, in that local
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criminal community. At 13, there was arson. on a heavy
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goods vehicle. There's theft. There's another brush with the law
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at 17. More burglary, more theft. Out of control would
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be the contemporary way of describing him. Bouncing in and
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out of juvenile care. In the mid 1990s, when Unwin
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was a teenager, he burgled the house of an amputee
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of 72.
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Unwin broke into his house. He forced a panel on
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the front door He went in downstairs. The chap was
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asleep upstairs, obviously taking his false leg off. Unwin stole
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some benefit books. But most remarkable about this offence was
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that all he had to do was just leave the house.
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He hadn't been disturbed. What he then did, he set
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five separate seats of fire downstairs.
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It was a crime of opportunity, but it also indicated
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that he was prepared to try and cover his tracks
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because a certain amount of arson was involved. And that
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became one of Unwin's fingerprints.
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Luckily, neighbors were able to rescue the old man in time.
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Later that day, Unwin was caught when he tried to
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cash in the books.
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He is engaging in quite lawless behavior from a very
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early age. These incidents happened before he was 18 years old.
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So this shows somebody who doesn't have respect for the law,
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who likes to create chaos, essentially.
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But the most horrifying part of this story of the
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young life of Stephen Unwin comes when he apparently befriends
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an aged pharmacist called John Greenwell.
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He was 73 years of age, a retired pharmacist. He
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was well respected in the community. He knew one or
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two young lads who used to run messages for him. Really,
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really nice man from all accounts.
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In the summer of 1998, one of the neighbourhood boys
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introduced 20-year-old Stephen Unwin to the retired pharmacist. John had
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terminal cancer and was often bedridden. He lived very close
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to Unwin, who decided one day he'd steal a few
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items from the old man's house. Unwin burgles Greenwell and steals,
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among other things, a Zenit camera. A friend remonstrates with him.
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and says, you can't do that. You must return the
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goods that you've stolen. And so a very unrepentant, and
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in fact, I would say probably furious, Unwin leaves what
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he's stolen on the doorstep, including the Zenit camera. But
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now Unwin's got a grudge. He's going to teach Greenwell
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a lesson. On the 25th of December, 1998, two uniformed
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police officers on patrol spotted John Greenwell's bungalow on fire.
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They notified the fire brigade who attended, and after several hours,
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extinguished the place. And once they'd gained entry, they realised
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that there was a body in the back room. He
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was lying on a bed, face up, and it was
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the body of Mr Greenwell.
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Colin Dobson was the senior investigating officer on call that
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Christmas bank holiday weekend.
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I knew that we were dealing with a murder investigation
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once we saw the scene. Mr Greenwell's body was desecrated,
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badly burned. When a pathologist carried out the post-mortem, it
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was quite evident that he'd received several blows to the head.
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We think that he attacked Mr Greenwell as he lay
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in bed using the Zenith camera. We also realised that
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he'd been stabbed to the chest, once to the chest.
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So the cause of death was actually a fractured skull
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and brain damage as well as the stab wound.
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Unwin set fire to several parts of the house, including
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John's body. He stole a television set and a VHS recorder.
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Shortly after Unwin had set fire to John's home, the
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two police officers on patrol had seen him pushing a
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wheelie bin down the road and had stopped him.
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Where are you going? What you got there? He says, oh,
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I'm just returning the VHS recorder for the time being. Well,
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they're suspicious, to put it politely, and they watch what
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house he goes into.
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As the officers walked on, they spotted John Greenwell's bungalow
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on fire. It didn't take Colin Dobson and his team
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long to connect the dots between the fire and Unwin.
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They arrested him the same day.
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Once he was arrested and we did a check, we
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realised that he had previous convictions and, indeed, He had
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two previous convictions of arson. There's no doubt that he
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was setting fire to the different scenes to destroy evidence,
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evidence of contact, any DNA evidence, anything at all. Unwanted
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had been arrested. We had no eyewitnesses. We had no
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forensic evidence. There was no CCTV in the area. Although
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he was a prime suspect, we had to build up
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a case, you know.
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But Unwin made one vital mistake. He'd wrapped the VHS
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recorder in a bin bag and taped it with sticky tape.
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The beauty about this one was that our own scenes
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of crime officers, they found amongst the debris a roll
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of sellotape. The Forensic Science Service was able to say
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that the roll of sellotape was a physical match to
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the tape used on the recovered bin line as we
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got back off Unwin. Not only that, there was a
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fingerprint on the sellotape roll, which was Unwin's fingerprint. When
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we got that evidence, obviously, we placed Unwin in the property.
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There was no doubt he was the person responsible for
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Mr Greenwell's savage murder, and we charged him with murder.
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Stephen Unwin pleaded guilty to the murder of 73-year-old pensioner
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John Greenwell. On 29th October 1999, the 21-year-old was sentenced
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to life in prison at Newcastle Crown Court.
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I was watching Unwin at the time, and in my eyes,
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he showed no remorse whatsoever. At the end of Mr
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Greenwell's case, I was interviewed, and I remember saying quite
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clearly that I thought Unwin was a very, very dangerous man,
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and I didn't say that lightly.
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Stephen Unwin and William McFall were both in their 20s
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when they killed frail and defenceless pensioners.
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One question must always remain. McFall and Unwin, both burgled, elderly,
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very vulnerable people. Why didn't they just leave it? at burglary?
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Why did they proceed to kill Martha and John? What
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was it in their nature, in their character, that drove
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them to kill? I would argue that it's a propensity
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to violence and a propensity to murder that exists in
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both men, which is why, when you add them together,
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they become even more dangerous.
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I think burglaries are a bit of a sideshow to
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what these crimes are really about. They are about dominating
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and controlling other people, and their victims were elderly, they
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were vulnerable. This really does add to the gravity of
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their crimes. They're never going to go after some muscle-bound
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man who is more than a match for them. They
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will always target those who can't fight back.
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William McFall and Stephen Unwin, two convicted killers, would meet
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and become friends in prison. Both men were released on
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licence after serving just 14 years of their life sentences.
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While Unwin was still in prison, he got back in
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touch with a girl he'd met as a teenager. To
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protect her identity, Rachel is not her real name and
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her image has been concealed.
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When I first met Stephen, he was quite charming.
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You know, the typical teenage charming lad, bit of Jack
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the Lad, made us laugh and we started dating for
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a little bit. It was like a teenage sort of
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summer romance kind of thing. And then we just ended
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up losing touch after that. When I first started talking
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to Stephen back in prison, I didn't really think much
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of it. A mutual friend got us talking again through
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phone calls and letters and stuff. He had the charm
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when I was speaking to him on the phone. made
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everything seem like it was okay.
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In December 2012, 34-year-old Stephen Unwin was released on license
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to serve the remaining years of his life sentence supervised
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by probation.
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When Stephen was released from prison, he convinced everyone he
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was a changed man, even his probation officer. Even she
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believed that he was remorseful for what he'd done, that
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he was never going to reoffend again.
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He moved back to his native northeast and lived and
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worked in the Sunderland area and the Hotel of Spring area,
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where he worked as a handyman, carrying out maintenance on properties.
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By 2014, Rachel and Unwin lived together and were expecting
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a daughter.
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When I first told Stephen I was pregnant, he was
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quite excited.
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He was there through the pregnancy and he was there
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at the birth as well.
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He was quite good at the birth.
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Family life was great at first.
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Absolute daughter and dad, to be honest. He was a
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good dad to her. It's one thing I can say.
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Many men who engage in criminal and violent behavior are fathers,
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and I would say that none of them are good fathers.
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What they are very good at is performing the role
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of the good father, the doting father, because they're aware
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that that is going to distract attention.
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And Unwin struggled to keep up the charade of the caring,
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loving partner and dad.
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He was a very jealous man. Stephen was abusive a
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couple of times. Once, he got all of us by
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the throat. Never hit us, but more sort of mental abuse.
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Convinced I wasn't good enough for anybody else, that I
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was his and his only.
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He was an angry man. He had lots of issues,
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especially when he was drinking. He'd become very, very angry.
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just at everything and everyone.
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I look at Unwin's behaviour and what I see is
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somebody who is a misogynist. Men like Unwin are possessive
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and jealous in their relationships with women because they see
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women as their possessions, who are there to meet their needs.
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While Unwin was living with Rachel, he kept in touch
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with his old cellmate, William McFall, who'd moved to Blackpool
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after his release from prison in 2010. Stephen used to
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talk about McFall a lot.
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My first impression of McFall was that he was just bonkers, basically.
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He liked to have a good laugh. He liked his drugs.
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He used to smoke cannabis.
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But Rachel soon realised there was something about McFall that
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didn't feel right.
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McFall was very scary. Just the way he looked.
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That he had a lot of anger inside him, which
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was really scary, yeah.
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I never felt safe around him.
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The relationship between Rachel and Unwin was becoming increasingly strained.
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The couple eventually broke up in December 2016.
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Final separation from Stephen was I'd just had enough of
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failing the way I felt.
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I was never happy.
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For all he did do it on our little one,
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I wasn't happy with him and I just said enough's enough.
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Rachel's departure from her relationship with Stephen Unwin is significant.
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I think it unsettles Unwin, and he doesn't quite know
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where to turn. The obvious person, of course, is McFall, his, quote, friend.
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And indeed, McFall cements that by leaving Blackpool and moving
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to stay with Unwin.
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By the summer of 2017, McFall and Unwin, the two
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convicted killers released on license, were living together at St.
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Oswald's Terrace in the Houghton-le-Spring area near Sunderland.
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When Unwin and McFall joined forces, they really amplified their
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level of dangerousness and violence because it's not just about
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committing crime and hurting people now. It's about doing that
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and performing it in front of another individual. So you
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have that competitive element that's going on.
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Unwin's and McFall's behavior escalated. They stole substantial cannabis crops
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and tried to get hold of guns. They were like
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a ticking time bomb about to explode. In the early
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hours of the 15th of August, 2017, Tyne and Wear
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Fire Service in England received what seemed to be a
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routine 999 call. A car had been spotted ablaze down
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a quiet lane near the allotments behind Shiny Row in Houghton-le-Spring.
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But the inferno was concealing an horrific secret.
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When the fire brigade finally extinguish the blaze, they do
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discover what they think is the body of a child
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in the back. In fact, it's just a very small woman,
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and it rapidly turns into a murder investigation.
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The flames were so intense that a horrific damage had
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been caused to her body, and when investigators were able
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to get close to the car, they discovered that her
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body had been fused into the back seat.
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The car had been burning for over an hour, and
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the dead body inside was unidentifiable.
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Initial information came out from the police in the normal
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fashion that journalists get to hear about breaking news stories,
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but there was very little detail to start with.
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It was a curious case.
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Not much information was given initially.
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The passport and other documentation were recovered from the burnt-out car,
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but police needed more to identify the body on the
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back seat of the black Audi. Later that morning, Gwen
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Nyok-Nguyen woke up and realized her sister Gwen had not
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come home the night before.
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She tried to contact her by mobile phone without success.
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And she alerted the authorities and went out looking for
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her herself without any success. And later in the day,
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she was told the terrible news that Quinn's car had
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been found burnt out and that there was a body
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inside it.
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Only dental records could confirm that the body found in
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the burnt-out car was that of her sister, 28-year-old mother
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of two, Nguyen Ngoc Nguyen. Nguyen was originally from Vietnam.
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Little is known about her life before she relocated to
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Berkeley near Gateshead.
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She arrived in Britain in 2010 when she moved to
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London to study business at a university. Following her studies,
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she moved to the northeast of England, where she worked
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with her sister.
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In a nail bar.
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She also was involved in the management of residential properties,
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looking after them and sourcing tenants for those properties. She
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was a caring, loving, devoted, hardworking mother of two. All
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her working hours, really, were spent providing for her family.
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Thanks to CCTV footage, police were quickly able to retrace
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Gwyn's final steps.
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CCTV footage was crucial to this case and the first
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relevant footage was at 6.12pm when Gwyn was seen leaving
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Glitter Nails, the nail bar that she ran with her
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sister in Gateshead.
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And then there's some more CCTV that shows her outside
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the back of Unwin's house.
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Gwyn had driven to St Oswald's Terrace for a business
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meeting with Stephen Unwin.
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Gwyn came into contact with Unwin because she managed a
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number of residential properties and Unwin would work as a
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handyman doing minor maintenance jobs on these properties. McFall would
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work for £ 50 a day helping Unwin in this job.
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Quinn and her sister spoke at 7 o'clock when her
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sister asked her when she would be home that night
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and Quinn explained she would be late because she had
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some business to attend to at a rental property.
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At 7.24pm, Quinn arrived at St Oswald's Terrace and was
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greeted by Stephen Unwin.
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This is the last moment that Quinn is ever seen
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alive by anyone other than Unwin and McFall.
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Unwin invites her in. having told McFall to hide, to
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conceal his existence in the house.
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Once Quinn had entered the property, it isn't exactly known,
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apart from by when Winnie McFall, exactly what happened.
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Now, precisely what happens next and in precisely what order
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is a matter of conjecture. But we can be sure
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that Quinn, this tiny little Vietnamese woman, is subdued very quickly.
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The attack on Quinn happened over a number of hours,
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and at any point during this time, either or both
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of these men could have decided not to go any further,
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to call it a day, to say, no, we're not
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doing any more here.
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But they didn't.
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They followed it through. And I think they fed off
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each other's energy when they were doing that.
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Quinn was forced to hand over her bank cards and
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reveal the PIN numbers.
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So she's been in their hands for hours. And she's
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been subjected to the worst imaginable treatment. She's been just
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about allowed to live so they can make sure they've
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got the right PIN number so that she can, in
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a sense, give them money.
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At 9.51pm, Arnwil was seen getting into his van at
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St Oswald's Terrace.
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The CCTV camera at the back of the house captured
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Unwin leaving the property and then driving to a nearby
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co-op where he used her bank card to withdraw cash
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and then to go and buy a bottle of spirits.
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Unwin withdrew 500 pounds using Quinn's card. The PIN number
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she'd given them was correct.
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But then the most horrific element of it all emerges.
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At 11.35 p.m., the CCTV at the back of the
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house captured more movement.
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Shortly after half past 11 that evening in August 2017,
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the two men are seen again on CCTV carrying Gwen's
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body wrapped in a sheet to the back of her car,
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her Audi.
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Quinn was very petite. She was only five foot tall
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and seven stones tall. and Unwin was clearly capable of
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00:32:48.039 --> 00:32:52.640
carrying her out. McFall walked behind him, making sure that
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she'd completely covered her body.
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They put her in the back seat and drive it
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not terribly far away.
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She was still alive at this point, but only just.
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They then drove a short distance, around a mile away,
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to a deserted remote lane where they set fire to
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the car in an attempt to cover their tracks.
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While the fire was taking hold of the car with
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Gwyn lying gravely injured in the back seat, Unwin and
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McFall walked back home as if nothing had happened. Several
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CCTV cameras picked up their whereabouts as they returned on
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foot to St. Oswald's Terrace to pick up Unwin's car.
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30 minutes after killing Gwyn and disposing of her body
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by setting her car alight, they were in Unwin's Audi
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driving around the local area.
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The men drove to a local post office to use
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Quinn's bank card once more and withdrew another £ 500. They
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returned to St. Oswald's Terrace around the same time the
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burning car was spotted and the fire service was called
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at 12.34 a.m.
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The details of how McFall and Unwin took Quinn in
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her own car to a deserted road where they would
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then set fire to her body. There are so many
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elements here of control, of possession. We have taken what
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we wanted from you. We've had our fun with you.
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We're now going to destroy you. And we're going to
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destroy something that's important to you as well. Your car
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00:34:24.369 --> 00:34:27.489
is a symbol of your success and your independence and
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your accomplishments. So we're going to get rid of that too.
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The next day, Gwyn's ruthless killers casually went shopping and
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to the pub with no apparent fear of being caught
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for their crimes. The CCTV images captured on the evening
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of the 14th of August were the last time Gwyn
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00:34:47.710 --> 00:34:52.210
Nyok Nguyen was seen alive. Four hours later, her dead
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00:34:52.289 --> 00:34:55.489
body was discovered inside a burned-out car.
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During the four-hour ordeal in the house when Gwyn was
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lying on the floor after being severely beaten, and when
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she was close to death, quite unbelievably, MacFarlane Unwin then
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cooked a curry and casually ate it.
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I think this shows us the absolute lack of empathy,
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the absolute lack of attachment, of understanding of other people's
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emotions and suffering that these men have. They are just
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about fulfilling their own basic needs. They cooked the curry
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because they were hungry. They wanted something to eat. and
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the fact that somebody's dying on the floor next to
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them is immaterial to them.
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Thanks to CCTV, the killer's whereabouts on the night of
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00:35:36.800 --> 00:35:40.559
the murder and the following day could be quickly retraced.
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The footage was damning.
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The police were on to one man very quickly. Early
570
00:35:45.820 --> 00:35:49.079
investigations led them to his door. He'd used Quinn's bank
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card to withdraw money from her account and had bought
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00:35:51.630 --> 00:35:54.530
some spirits with it, and he'd been caught on various
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CCTV in the area.
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They have left so much evidence, there is so much CCTV,
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that it beggars belief. They haven't even thought out any
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00:36:07.719 --> 00:36:10.059
explanation for any of this action.
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Within 24 hours of the attack on Quinn, the police
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00:36:16.159 --> 00:36:19.599
arrested Unwin. McFall was actually pulled into the inquiry early
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00:36:19.639 --> 00:36:22.000
on as a witness initially, but he was very quickly
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arrested as a suspect as well.
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Looking at the evidence against them, it was incredibly compelling,
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and it shows us how stupid these two were as well.
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They're very brutish.
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They're very primitive in a way because they're so focused
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on the violence, they're so fixated on that, that they're
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00:36:38.820 --> 00:36:41.570
not really doing very much to think about how they're
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going to get away with it, and that's why they don't.
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Police also analyzed the data on the men's mobile phones.
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The content was highly incriminating.
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Evidence was found on the phones of them chatting to
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each other, plotting the attack going back a number of weeks,
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and also of them communicating with each other and other
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people in the hours after Quinn had been murdered. Approximately
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half an hour after they set fire to Quinn's car,
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McFall took a selfie of the both of them in
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the car. McFall was smiling on the selfie, seemingly without
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a care in the world, and he sent that to
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a friend.
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The fact that this guy wanted to document this in
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a photograph, he wanted to take a picture of himself
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at this time, this is really significant. This is a
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00:37:29.110 --> 00:37:31.650
sort of decisive moment for him that he wants to
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00:37:31.730 --> 00:37:35.289
capture in a picture. It's almost a celebratory mood.
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Both men are charged with the murder of Quinn.
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News of the murder spread through the local community. Unwin's
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00:37:44.929 --> 00:37:48.150
ex-partner and mother to his daughter was shocked.
607
00:37:48.800 --> 00:37:49.920
It was on the local news.
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00:37:50.179 --> 00:37:53.659
His picture got brought up, and I just burst into tears.
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It's just the thought that he'd been in my.
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Life, really.
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Only the day before killing Gwyn, Unwin's daughter had stayed
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with him at St. Oswald's Terrace, as she did so
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on many weekends.
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Just before the murder, Stephen had had my daughter on
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00:38:10.440 --> 00:38:14.579
the Saturday night, overnight. He came, dropped her back off
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00:38:14.619 --> 00:38:17.539
on the Sunday sort of late morning, just seemed normal.
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Mr McFall was also sitting in the car, but hadn't
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gotten out of the car.
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Thanks to overwhelming evidence, police were able to shed some
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light on the horrific events that took place on the
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00:38:30.530 --> 00:38:35.170
night of the murder. It emerged that Gwyn had been
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sexually assaulted. Furthermore, she was dragged through the house, beaten
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and asphyxiated.
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They obtained a DNA sample using her toothbrush and a
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00:38:46.940 --> 00:38:49.559
face mask that she had previously used at the nail
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00:38:49.579 --> 00:38:52.340
bar that she ran with her sister. And using that
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00:38:52.420 --> 00:38:55.579
DNA profile, they were then able to piece together what
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00:38:55.599 --> 00:38:58.139
had happened at the crime scene in Unwin's house.
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As if there could be the slightest doubt of Unwin
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00:39:03.659 --> 00:39:09.789
and McFall's guilt, Gwen's DNA is found on Unwin's tracksuit bottoms.
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It was the evidence investigators needed to charge Stephen Unwin
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00:39:15.480 --> 00:39:17.440
with rape as well as murder.
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00:39:18.300 --> 00:39:21.159
Police were also able to prove that she'd been sexually
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abused with a number of items, including a gas gun.
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00:39:24.510 --> 00:39:28.250
The forensics team found Gwyn's DNA on the barrel of
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00:39:28.309 --> 00:39:35.159
McFall's gas gun. and chillingly on a toy lightsaber belonging
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00:39:35.219 --> 00:39:36.650
to Unwin's young daughter.
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00:39:37.690 --> 00:39:41.769
I think parents feel a particular kind of attachment to
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objects that their children play with, because these objects represent innocence.
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00:39:47.849 --> 00:39:51.050
But those parents are people who have an emotional attachment
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00:39:51.170 --> 00:39:54.239
to their children. I don't think that Unwin does. I
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00:39:54.280 --> 00:39:57.340
don't think he has an emotional attachment to anyone. So
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I think he would have assaulted Quinn with whatever was there, essentially.
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00:40:06.019 --> 00:40:09.809
Six months after the murder of Gwyn, the trial began
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00:40:09.889 --> 00:40:14.230
on the 20th of February 2018 at Newcastle Crown Court.
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The most striking thing about their court case was their
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behaviour in court, especially McFall. He made a series of
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outbursts throughout the trial. On one occasion, he made a
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00:40:23.039 --> 00:40:28.280
throat-cutting gesture towards the press bench. Unwin was a lot different.
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00:40:28.300 --> 00:40:31.519
He seemed to be this quiet, smouldering individual. He was
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00:40:31.579 --> 00:40:35.449
clearly capable of incredibly violent, dangerous acts. but he just
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00:40:35.469 --> 00:40:37.969
seemed to sit there with his very calm demeanor throughout
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00:40:38.030 --> 00:40:40.690
the trial, as if he was on trial for an
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incredibly minor offense.
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Behavior in the courtroom is always really revealing, and this
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00:40:45.989 --> 00:40:49.550
case is no exception. So Unwin was quite cool and
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calm and collected, and I think that tells us about
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00:40:52.630 --> 00:40:57.639
his coldness, about how unaffected he is by things. McFall,
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on the other hand, was the opposite end of the spectrum.
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00:41:00.849 --> 00:41:03.760
he would break down and freak out and make a
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00:41:03.840 --> 00:41:06.639
scene on multiple occasions. And I think this tells us
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00:41:06.699 --> 00:41:09.880
a lot about the dynamic between these two. Unwin is
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the puppet master.
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McFall is the puppet.
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The killers were convinced they'd found a legal loophole by
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which they could escape justice.
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00:41:20.949 --> 00:41:23.809
They're both going to claim that the other one did
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00:41:23.869 --> 00:41:26.289
it to confuse the jury.
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McFall's version of events is that he walked into the
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property and discovered Unwin raping Quinn and then strangling her.
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00:41:36.570 --> 00:41:39.269
Unwin claimed the polar opposite. He claimed he walked into
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the property to find McFall strangling Quinn.
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It's an absolute cacophony of silliness, except it's so awful,
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so serious, it demands to be treated as it was,
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which is barbarism.
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The jury didn't fall for it and decided both men
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were equally responsible for Gwyn's murder. On the 25th of April, 2018,
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William McFall and Stephen Unwin were given whole-life prison sentences.
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This time, they will never be released.
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Anyone connected with this case will remember it for many
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years because the horrific degree of cruelty they both exhibited
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00:42:20.659 --> 00:42:23.639
towards Gwyn and the way that they disposed of her
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body There are no happy endings in this case for
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Quinn's family at all, but one tiny degree of comfort
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is them knowing that they will never, ever be released
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from prison.
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00:42:34.880 --> 00:42:42.469
This meeting of two murderous men who meet by coincidence
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in a jail cell meant that they were more dangerous
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together than they were apart. The treatment of Quinn... literally
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00:42:55.059 --> 00:43:00.840
is heartbreaking. What she had to suffer was all but unimaginable.
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Stephen Unwin and William McFall are ruthless killers in their
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own right. They preyed on the most vulnerable when they
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viciously killed elderly pensioners. And when they joined forces, the
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sadistic nature of their wicked ways knew no bounds. they
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brutally murdered an innocent young mother and set fire to
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her car while she was still alive inside, all for
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their own twisted gratification, making Stephen Unwin and William McFall
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two of the world's most evil killers.
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In the early morning hours of the 15th of August, 2017,
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a fire and rescue service in the northeast of England
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responded to a 999 call reporting a car on fire.
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Inside the car, the body of 28-year-old mother of two,
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Nguyen Anhoc Nguyen, from Vietnam.
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The flames were so intense that her body had been
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fused into the backseat of the car.
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This was an act that was premeditated and planned.
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Her killers were 50-year-old William McFall and 39-year-old Stephen Unwin,
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two convicted murderers.
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It was the evil of all evils. They're just evil people.
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The killers had met in prison where they struck up
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a deadly friendship.
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When Unwin and McFall joined forces, they really amplified their
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level of dangerousness and violence, because it's not just about
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committing crime and hurting people now. It's about doing that
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and performing it in front of another individual.
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In her final hour, their victims suffered unimaginable pain and
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cruelty at the hands of Stephen Unwin and William McFall,
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two of the world's most evil killers. In April 2018,
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Stephen Unwin and William McFall were on trial in the
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Crown Court at Newcastle, England, for the brutal murder of
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Gwynne Nguyen. Unwin was also charged with raping the 28-year-old
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from Vietnam. Covering the day-to-day court proceedings was North East
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reporter for The Sun newspaper, Robin Perry.
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Quinn was subjected to a horrific assault. She was attacked, beaten,
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strangled with a ligature, and then quite horrifically, Unwinner McFall
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injected her with a syringe full of whiskey. As she
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was incapacitated, far too badly injured to escape, Unwinner then
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subjected to a series of sexual assaults and raped her.
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This poor woman has lost her innocence and her life
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eventually to these two mindless thugs. And this wasn't just
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an act of opportunism.
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On the 25th of April 2018, Mr Justice Morris sentenced
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40-year-old Stephen Unwin and 51-year-old William McFall to life in prison.
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Both men were given not just life terms, but full
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life terms. There are two of only approximately 60 people
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in the country who have full life terms, which means.
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They will never be released. They will die behind bars.
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Lovely cheese.
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Real cheese.
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They are considered among the most dangerous criminals in the country.
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They are highly likely to kill someone else, to harm
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someone else, if they were ever released.
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This was not the first time Stephen Unwin and William
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McFall had killed. Both men were already convicted murderers before
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they attacked Gwyn.
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I think we do need to take a step back
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and say, why on earth were these two men released
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in the first place? They took people's lives away, and
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the circumstances in which those first murders happened were particularly heinous.
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William McFall's story begins in Northern Ireland. He was born
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in 1967 and grew up in the small town of
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Green Island near Carrickfergus in County Antrim.
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These were quite turbulent times in Northern Ireland, so... Things
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weren't particularly stable.
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There was always a.
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Kind of fear in the air about what might happen next.
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And he's a child who didn't really seem to have
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very much in the way of sort of guidance and
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direction and discipline. So right from the word go, he
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was kind of left to his own devices, really.
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Jimmy Smith knew McFall as a child.
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The early memories of McFall was him just running about
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in the estate with a pair of Wellington boots on
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and a pair of shorts. and just like a feral child.
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He didn't seem to have any friends at all, but
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everyone knew him. People did really avoid him because he
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was just... There was something not right.
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McFall grew up with two sisters and a brother.
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McFall and his other siblings seemed to have no discipline
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in the house at all. You know, they just ran wild.
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All of them.
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MacFarlane always had a weapon in his hand, whether it
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be a stick or a hammer or a knife. The
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most bizarre one was a chainsaw.
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This really does tell us that he wants to be
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seen as threatening. He attaches a value to violence. He
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wants other people to fear him.
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He wasn't really a violent man with anybody that could
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challenge him. but if it was someone weaker, then, yes,
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he would be violent, he would be very, very nasty,
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very vindictive, you know.
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There were early signs that McFall was a troubled boy
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with tendencies to cruelty.
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McFall had an altercation with one of the teachers in
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Silverstream Primary School, and later on that evening, he broke
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into the school, went to the teacher's praise topical fish
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tank and killed all the fish and put them under
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desks and between books. and nailed him to the blackboard
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as well. Just really bizarre behavior.
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There's also a story that he killed 40 mice by
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beheading them. He was a brutal little boy, a boy
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who set himself apart from the crowd by his ferocity.
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We do see this quite often in cases of people
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who go on to commit horrendous murders. We look back
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at their childhoods and they do seem to have animal
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cruelty within them. We know that he is using animals
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to exercise power, to exercise control. When you are a
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small child, you don't have really much physical control over
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other people.
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His actual nickname was Mad John when he was a kid.
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It just stuck with him.
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As a young adult, William Mad John McFall had several
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convictions for violence and firearms offences.
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McFall did what he wanted. But then, as he grew
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towards the second half of his 20s, again in jail,
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he brags to a fellow cellmate that he's going to
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plot to rob an elderly lady who lives basically 100
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yards from his house, whom he's convinced has loads of
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cash under a bed.
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William McFall lived on Station Road, not far from 86-year-old
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Martha Gilmore. Martha was a frail woman who had bad
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arthritis and struggled with movement. She relied on carers for help,
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and one of the carers to visit her regularly was
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community nurse Anne Scott.
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She was just a lady that I just hit it
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off with her from the word go and she was
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a lady that I was very, very fond of. She
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did go out using her two sticks but she would
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have been very slow and she was very fragile but
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fiercely independent and always made me very welcome.
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In the early hours of Sunday 5th May 1996, McFall,
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armed with a hammer, went to Martha Gilmore's semi-detached bungalow
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on Station Road with the intention of burgling her. He
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hoped to find loads of cash under her bed. He
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rang the doorbell. Nobody answered.
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She'd obviously been in bed because she was slow because
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of her reduced mobility.
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But, of course, McFall doesn't factor any of this into
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his thinking. Nobody comes to the door because she can't
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get up very quickly. She's simply an old lady who
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finds movement extremely difficult. He rings the doorbell again. No response.
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So McFall breaks in. By this point, Martha Gellhorn has
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got up and gone into the hallway. Now, McFall is
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in the hallway. realizes that the house isn't empty. He's
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convinced she can identify him. After all, they live about
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100 yards apart, so it's pretty likely she could. So
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without hesitation, he kills her. He hits her over the
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head with a hammer.
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McFall battered the frail old woman three times on the
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back of the head.
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This is a violent young man who acts on instinct
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and also has a vengeful temper. So rather than risk
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leaving Martha alive... He kills her. But not only that,
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he then drags her along the hallway so that he
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can get back out of the door again and on
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the way breaks her sternum.
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McFall fled the scene, leaving Martha dead in the hallway
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in a pool of her own blood.
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The news came on and it said an elderly lady
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had been murdered she lived in the station road in
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Green Island and I know this sounds ridiculous but I
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just knew in my heart that it was Martha.
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McFall was arrested within hours of the murder after police
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discovered fingerprints on Martha's front door which matched those held
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on file for William McFall.
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When his name came up, I wasn't surprised that McFall
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had killed her. It was obvious. The most striking thing
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was the violence behind it. It's out of order, killing
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an old woman.
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We often find this in cases of killers like this individual.
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They begin by targeting very vulnerable people because they are
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easier to control. It's almost like a testing out, essentially,
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of a particular offence, of a particular crime, to see
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if they can do it.
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This lady who was kind, who was genteel, who did
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nobody any harm, who should have been safe in the
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sanctuary of her own home. But no, it was invaded
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and she was horribly and brutally attacked. He didn't need
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to use a hammer on a wee frail lady like Martha.
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He could have pushed her out of his way. No
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one deserves to be attacked like that. But Martha was
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particularly defenseless, not only her age, but her frailty as well,
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against a young man wielding a hammer.
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It's despicable.
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On the 11th of April, 1997, William McFall was sentenced
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to life in prison at Belfast Crown Court for the
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murder of Martha Gilmore.
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This is a violent man, truly given his justice. It's
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a life sentence. for murder.
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McFall was sent to HMP Swaleside in Kent, England, where
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he was housed with like-minded individuals. During his time behind bars,
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he shared a cell with Stephen Unwin. The two convicted
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killers struck up a close friendship.
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Friendships within prison are an interesting thing because for some people,
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they will not want to continue those friendships when they
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get out because they want to tie over a new leaf,
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they want to start again. But on the other hand,
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prison friendships can often be the most meaningful, the deepest
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attachment that somebody has felt to another individual in their
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entire lives. And I think potentially that's what we're looking
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at in this case.
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Stephen Unwin's story begins in 1978. He was born on
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the 16th of February in Durham. He grew up with
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an older sister in Fence Houses, a working-class village near
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Sunderland in the northeast of England. Like McFall, he was
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a troubled boy from an early age.
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Unwin is a face, if you like, in that local
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criminal community. At 13, there was arson. on a heavy
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goods vehicle. There's theft. There's another brush with the law
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at 17. More burglary, more theft. Out of control would
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be the contemporary way of describing him. Bouncing in and
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out of juvenile care. In the mid 1990s, when Unwin
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was a teenager, he burgled the house of an amputee
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of 72.
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Unwin broke into his house. He forced a panel on
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the front door He went in downstairs. The chap was
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asleep upstairs, obviously taking his false leg off. Unwin stole
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some benefit books. But most remarkable about this offence was
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that all he had to do was just leave the house.
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He hadn't been disturbed. What he then did, he set
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five separate seats of fire downstairs.
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It was a crime of opportunity, but it also indicated
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that he was prepared to try and cover his tracks
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because a certain amount of arson was involved. And that
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became one of Unwin's fingerprints.
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Luckily, neighbors were able to rescue the old man in time.
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Later that day, Unwin was caught when he tried to
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cash in the books.
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He is engaging in quite lawless behavior from a very
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early age. These incidents happened before he was 18 years old.
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So this shows somebody who doesn't have respect for the law,
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who likes to create chaos, essentially.
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But the most horrifying part of this story of the
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young life of Stephen Unwin comes when he apparently befriends
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an aged pharmacist called John Greenwell.
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He was 73 years of age, a retired pharmacist. He
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was well respected in the community. He knew one or
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two young lads who used to run messages for him. Really,
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really nice man from all accounts.
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In the summer of 1998, one of the neighbourhood boys
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introduced 20-year-old Stephen Unwin to the retired pharmacist. John had
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terminal cancer and was often bedridden. He lived very close
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to Unwin, who decided one day he'd steal a few
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items from the old man's house. Unwin burgles Greenwell and steals,
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among other things, a Zenit camera. A friend remonstrates with him.
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and says, you can't do that. You must return the
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goods that you've stolen. And so a very unrepentant, and
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in fact, I would say probably furious, Unwin leaves what
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he's stolen on the doorstep, including the Zenit camera. But
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now Unwin's got a grudge. He's going to teach Greenwell
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a lesson. On the 25th of December, 1998, two uniformed
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police officers on patrol spotted John Greenwell's bungalow on fire.
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They notified the fire brigade who attended, and after several hours,
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extinguished the place. And once they'd gained entry, they realised
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that there was a body in the back room. He
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was lying on a bed, face up, and it was
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the body of Mr Greenwell.
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Colin Dobson was the senior investigating officer on call that
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Christmas bank holiday weekend.
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I knew that we were dealing with a murder investigation
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once we saw the scene. Mr Greenwell's body was desecrated,
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badly burned. When a pathologist carried out the post-mortem, it
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was quite evident that he'd received several blows to the head.
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We think that he attacked Mr Greenwell as he lay
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in bed using the Zenith camera. We also realised that
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he'd been stabbed to the chest, once to the chest.
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So the cause of death was actually a fractured skull
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and brain damage as well as the stab wound.
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Unwin set fire to several parts of the house, including
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John's body. He stole a television set and a VHS recorder.
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Shortly after Unwin had set fire to John's home, the
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two police officers on patrol had seen him pushing a
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wheelie bin down the road and had stopped him.
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Where are you going? What you got there? He says, oh,
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I'm just returning the VHS recorder for the time being. Well,
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they're suspicious, to put it politely, and they watch what
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house he goes into.
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As the officers walked on, they spotted John Greenwell's bungalow
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on fire. It didn't take Colin Dobson and his team
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long to connect the dots between the fire and Unwin.
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They arrested him the same day.
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Once he was arrested and we did a check, we
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realised that he had previous convictions and, indeed, He had
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two previous convictions of arson. There's no doubt that he
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was setting fire to the different scenes to destroy evidence,
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evidence of contact, any DNA evidence, anything at all. Unwanted
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had been arrested. We had no eyewitnesses. We had no
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forensic evidence. There was no CCTV in the area. Although
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he was a prime suspect, we had to build up
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a case, you know.
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But Unwin made one vital mistake. He'd wrapped the VHS
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recorder in a bin bag and taped it with sticky tape.
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The beauty about this one was that our own scenes
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of crime officers, they found amongst the debris a roll
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of sellotape. The Forensic Science Service was able to say
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that the roll of sellotape was a physical match to
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the tape used on the recovered bin line as we
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got back off Unwin. Not only that, there was a
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fingerprint on the sellotape roll, which was Unwin's fingerprint. When
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we got that evidence, obviously, we placed Unwin in the property.
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There was no doubt he was the person responsible for
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Mr Greenwell's savage murder, and we charged him with murder.
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Stephen Unwin pleaded guilty to the murder of 73-year-old pensioner
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John Greenwell. On 29th October 1999, the 21-year-old was sentenced
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to life in prison at Newcastle Crown Court.
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I was watching Unwin at the time, and in my eyes,
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he showed no remorse whatsoever. At the end of Mr
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Greenwell's case, I was interviewed, and I remember saying quite
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clearly that I thought Unwin was a very, very dangerous man,
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and I didn't say that lightly.
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Stephen Unwin and William McFall were both in their 20s
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when they killed frail and defenceless pensioners.
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One question must always remain. McFall and Unwin, both burgled, elderly,
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very vulnerable people. Why didn't they just leave it? at burglary?
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Why did they proceed to kill Martha and John? What
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was it in their nature, in their character, that drove
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them to kill? I would argue that it's a propensity
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to violence and a propensity to murder that exists in
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both men, which is why, when you add them together,
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they become even more dangerous.
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I think burglaries are a bit of a sideshow to
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what these crimes are really about. They are about dominating
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and controlling other people, and their victims were elderly, they
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were vulnerable. This really does add to the gravity of
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their crimes. They're never going to go after some muscle-bound
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man who is more than a match for them. They
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will always target those who can't fight back.
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William McFall and Stephen Unwin, two convicted killers, would meet
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and become friends in prison. Both men were released on
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licence after serving just 14 years of their life sentences.
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While Unwin was still in prison, he got back in
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touch with a girl he'd met as a teenager. To
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protect her identity, Rachel is not her real name and
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her image has been concealed.
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When I first met Stephen, he was quite charming.
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You know, the typical teenage charming lad, bit of Jack
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the Lad, made us laugh and we started dating for
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a little bit. It was like a teenage sort of
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summer romance kind of thing. And then we just ended
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up losing touch after that. When I first started talking
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to Stephen back in prison, I didn't really think much
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of it. A mutual friend got us talking again through
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phone calls and letters and stuff. He had the charm
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when I was speaking to him on the phone. made
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everything seem like it was okay.
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In December 2012, 34-year-old Stephen Unwin was released on license
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to serve the remaining years of his life sentence supervised
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by probation.
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When Stephen was released from prison, he convinced everyone he
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was a changed man, even his probation officer. Even she
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believed that he was remorseful for what he'd done, that
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he was never going to reoffend again.
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He moved back to his native northeast and lived and
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worked in the Sunderland area and the Hotel of Spring area,
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where he worked as a handyman, carrying out maintenance on properties.
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By 2014, Rachel and Unwin lived together and were expecting
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a daughter.
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When I first told Stephen I was pregnant, he was
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quite excited.
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He was there through the pregnancy and he was there
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at the birth as well.
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He was quite good at the birth.
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Family life was great at first.
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Absolute daughter and dad, to be honest. He was a
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good dad to her. It's one thing I can say.
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Many men who engage in criminal and violent behavior are fathers,
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and I would say that none of them are good fathers.
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What they are very good at is performing the role
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of the good father, the doting father, because they're aware
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that that is going to distract attention.
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And Unwin struggled to keep up the charade of the caring,
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loving partner and dad.
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He was a very jealous man. Stephen was abusive a
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couple of times. Once, he got all of us by
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the throat. Never hit us, but more sort of mental abuse.
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Convinced I wasn't good enough for anybody else, that I
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was his and his only.
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He was an angry man. He had lots of issues,
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especially when he was drinking. He'd become very, very angry.
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just at everything and everyone.
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I look at Unwin's behaviour and what I see is
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somebody who is a misogynist. Men like Unwin are possessive
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and jealous in their relationships with women because they see
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women as their possessions, who are there to meet their needs.
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While Unwin was living with Rachel, he kept in touch
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with his old cellmate, William McFall, who'd moved to Blackpool
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after his release from prison in 2010. Stephen used to
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talk about McFall a lot.
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My first impression of McFall was that he was just bonkers, basically.
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He liked to have a good laugh. He liked his drugs.
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He used to smoke cannabis.
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But Rachel soon realised there was something about McFall that
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didn't feel right.
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McFall was very scary. Just the way he looked.
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That he had a lot of anger inside him, which
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was really scary, yeah.
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I never felt safe around him.
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The relationship between Rachel and Unwin was becoming increasingly strained.
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The couple eventually broke up in December 2016.
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Final separation from Stephen was I'd just had enough of
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failing the way I felt.
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I was never happy.
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For all he did do it on our little one,
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I wasn't happy with him and I just said enough's enough.
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Rachel's departure from her relationship with Stephen Unwin is significant.
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I think it unsettles Unwin, and he doesn't quite know
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where to turn. The obvious person, of course, is McFall, his, quote, friend.
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And indeed, McFall cements that by leaving Blackpool and moving
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to stay with Unwin.
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By the summer of 2017, McFall and Unwin, the two
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convicted killers released on license, were living together at St.
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Oswald's Terrace in the Houghton-le-Spring area near Sunderland.
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When Unwin and McFall joined forces, they really amplified their
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level of dangerousness and violence because it's not just about
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committing crime and hurting people now. It's about doing that
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and performing it in front of another individual. So you
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have that competitive element that's going on.
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Unwin's and McFall's behavior escalated. They stole substantial cannabis crops
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and tried to get hold of guns. They were like
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a ticking time bomb about to explode. In the early
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hours of the 15th of August, 2017, Tyne and Wear
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Fire Service in England received what seemed to be a
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routine 999 call. A car had been spotted ablaze down
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a quiet lane near the allotments behind Shiny Row in Houghton-le-Spring.
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But the inferno was concealing an horrific secret.
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When the fire brigade finally extinguish the blaze, they do
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discover what they think is the body of a child
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in the back. In fact, it's just a very small woman,
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and it rapidly turns into a murder investigation.
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The flames were so intense that a horrific damage had
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been caused to her body, and when investigators were able
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to get close to the car, they discovered that her
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body had been fused into the back seat.
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The car had been burning for over an hour, and
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the dead body inside was unidentifiable.
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Initial information came out from the police in the normal
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fashion that journalists get to hear about breaking news stories,
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but there was very little detail to start with.
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It was a curious case.
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Not much information was given initially.
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The passport and other documentation were recovered from the burnt-out car,
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but police needed more to identify the body on the
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back seat of the black Audi. Later that morning, Gwen
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Nyok-Nguyen woke up and realized her sister Gwen had not
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come home the night before.
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She tried to contact her by mobile phone without success.
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And she alerted the authorities and went out looking for
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her herself without any success. And later in the day,
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she was told the terrible news that Quinn's car had
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been found burnt out and that there was a body
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inside it.
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Only dental records could confirm that the body found in
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the burnt-out car was that of her sister, 28-year-old mother
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of two, Nguyen Ngoc Nguyen. Nguyen was originally from Vietnam.
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Little is known about her life before she relocated to
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Berkeley near Gateshead.
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She arrived in Britain in 2010 when she moved to
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London to study business at a university. Following her studies,
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she moved to the northeast of England, where she worked
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with her sister.
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In a nail bar.
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She also was involved in the management of residential properties,
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looking after them and sourcing tenants for those properties. She
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was a caring, loving, devoted, hardworking mother of two. All
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her working hours, really, were spent providing for her family.
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Thanks to CCTV footage, police were quickly able to retrace
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Gwyn's final steps.
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CCTV footage was crucial to this case and the first
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relevant footage was at 6.12pm when Gwyn was seen leaving
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Glitter Nails, the nail bar that she ran with her
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sister in Gateshead.
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And then there's some more CCTV that shows her outside
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the back of Unwin's house.
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Gwyn had driven to St Oswald's Terrace for a business
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meeting with Stephen Unwin.
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Gwyn came into contact with Unwin because she managed a
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number of residential properties and Unwin would work as a
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handyman doing minor maintenance jobs on these properties. McFall would
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work for £ 50 a day helping Unwin in this job.
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Quinn and her sister spoke at 7 o'clock when her
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sister asked her when she would be home that night
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and Quinn explained she would be late because she had
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some business to attend to at a rental property.
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At 7.24pm, Quinn arrived at St Oswald's Terrace and was
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greeted by Stephen Unwin.
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This is the last moment that Quinn is ever seen
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alive by anyone other than Unwin and McFall.
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Unwin invites her in. having told McFall to hide, to
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conceal his existence in the house.
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Once Quinn had entered the property, it isn't exactly known,
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apart from by when Winnie McFall, exactly what happened.
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Now, precisely what happens next and in precisely what order
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is a matter of conjecture. But we can be sure
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that Quinn, this tiny little Vietnamese woman, is subdued very quickly.
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The attack on Quinn happened over a number of hours,
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and at any point during this time, either or both
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of these men could have decided not to go any further,
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to call it a day, to say, no, we're not
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doing any more here.
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But they didn't.
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They followed it through. And I think they fed off
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each other's energy when they were doing that.
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Quinn was forced to hand over her bank cards and
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reveal the PIN numbers.
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So she's been in their hands for hours. And she's
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been subjected to the worst imaginable treatment. She's been just
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about allowed to live so they can make sure they've
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got the right PIN number so that she can, in
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a sense, give them money.
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At 9.51pm, Arnwil was seen getting into his van at
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St Oswald's Terrace.
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The CCTV camera at the back of the house captured
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Unwin leaving the property and then driving to a nearby
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co-op where he used her bank card to withdraw cash
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and then to go and buy a bottle of spirits.
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Unwin withdrew 500 pounds using Quinn's card. The PIN number
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she'd given them was correct.
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But then the most horrific element of it all emerges.
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At 11.35 p.m., the CCTV at the back of the
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house captured more movement.
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Shortly after half past 11 that evening in August 2017,
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the two men are seen again on CCTV carrying Gwen's
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body wrapped in a sheet to the back of her car,
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her Audi.
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Quinn was very petite. She was only five foot tall
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and seven stones tall. and Unwin was clearly capable of
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00:32:48.039 --> 00:32:52.640
carrying her out. McFall walked behind him, making sure that
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she'd completely covered her body.
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They put her in the back seat and drive it
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not terribly far away.
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She was still alive at this point, but only just.
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They then drove a short distance, around a mile away,
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to a deserted remote lane where they set fire to
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the car in an attempt to cover their tracks.
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While the fire was taking hold of the car with
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Gwyn lying gravely injured in the back seat, Unwin and
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McFall walked back home as if nothing had happened. Several
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CCTV cameras picked up their whereabouts as they returned on
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foot to St. Oswald's Terrace to pick up Unwin's car.
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30 minutes after killing Gwyn and disposing of her body
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by setting her car alight, they were in Unwin's Audi
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00:33:41.529 --> 00:33:42.789
driving around the local area.
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The men drove to a local post office to use
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Quinn's bank card once more and withdrew another £ 500. They
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00:33:51.839 --> 00:33:55.000
returned to St. Oswald's Terrace around the same time the
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burning car was spotted and the fire service was called
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00:33:58.460 --> 00:33:58.890
at 12.34 a.m.
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The details of how McFall and Unwin took Quinn in
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her own car to a deserted road where they would
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then set fire to her body. There are so many
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elements here of control, of possession. We have taken what
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we wanted from you. We've had our fun with you.
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00:34:18.960 --> 00:34:21.179
We're now going to destroy you. And we're going to
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00:34:21.219 --> 00:34:24.309
destroy something that's important to you as well. Your car
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00:34:24.369 --> 00:34:27.489
is a symbol of your success and your independence and
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your accomplishments. So we're going to get rid of that too.
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The next day, Gwyn's ruthless killers casually went shopping and
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to the pub with no apparent fear of being caught
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for their crimes. The CCTV images captured on the evening
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of the 14th of August were the last time Gwyn
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00:34:47.710 --> 00:34:52.210
Nyok Nguyen was seen alive. Four hours later, her dead
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00:34:52.289 --> 00:34:55.489
body was discovered inside a burned-out car.
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During the four-hour ordeal in the house when Gwyn was
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lying on the floor after being severely beaten, and when
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she was close to death, quite unbelievably, MacFarlane Unwin then
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cooked a curry and casually ate it.
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I think this shows us the absolute lack of empathy,
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the absolute lack of attachment, of understanding of other people's
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emotions and suffering that these men have. They are just
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about fulfilling their own basic needs. They cooked the curry
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because they were hungry. They wanted something to eat. and
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the fact that somebody's dying on the floor next to
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them is immaterial to them.
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Thanks to CCTV, the killer's whereabouts on the night of
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the murder and the following day could be quickly retraced.
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The footage was damning.
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The police were on to one man very quickly. Early
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00:35:45.820 --> 00:35:49.079
investigations led them to his door. He'd used Quinn's bank
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card to withdraw money from her account and had bought
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00:35:51.630 --> 00:35:54.530
some spirits with it, and he'd been caught on various
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00:35:54.570 --> 00:35:55.730
CCTV in the area.
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They have left so much evidence, there is so much CCTV,
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that it beggars belief. They haven't even thought out any
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00:36:07.719 --> 00:36:10.059
explanation for any of this action.
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Within 24 hours of the attack on Quinn, the police
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00:36:16.159 --> 00:36:19.599
arrested Unwin. McFall was actually pulled into the inquiry early
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00:36:19.639 --> 00:36:22.000
on as a witness initially, but he was very quickly
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00:36:22.019 --> 00:36:23.400
arrested as a suspect as well.
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Looking at the evidence against them, it was incredibly compelling,
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00:36:28.079 --> 00:36:31.460
and it shows us how stupid these two were as well.
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They're very brutish.
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They're very primitive in a way because they're so focused
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on the violence, they're so fixated on that, that they're
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00:36:38.820 --> 00:36:41.570
not really doing very much to think about how they're
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00:36:41.590 --> 00:36:43.570
going to get away with it, and that's why they don't.
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Police also analyzed the data on the men's mobile phones.
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00:36:48.769 --> 00:36:51.170
The content was highly incriminating.
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Evidence was found on the phones of them chatting to
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each other, plotting the attack going back a number of weeks,
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and also of them communicating with each other and other
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people in the hours after Quinn had been murdered. Approximately
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half an hour after they set fire to Quinn's car,
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McFall took a selfie of the both of them in
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the car. McFall was smiling on the selfie, seemingly without
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a care in the world, and he sent that to
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a friend.
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The fact that this guy wanted to document this in
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a photograph, he wanted to take a picture of himself
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at this time, this is really significant. This is a
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00:37:29.110 --> 00:37:31.650
sort of decisive moment for him that he wants to
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00:37:31.730 --> 00:37:35.289
capture in a picture. It's almost a celebratory mood.
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Both men are charged with the murder of Quinn.
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00:37:40.010 --> 00:37:44.849
News of the murder spread through the local community. Unwin's
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00:37:44.929 --> 00:37:48.150
ex-partner and mother to his daughter was shocked.
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It was on the local news.
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His picture got brought up, and I just burst into tears.
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It's just the thought that he'd been in my.
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Life, really.
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Only the day before killing Gwyn, Unwin's daughter had stayed
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with him at St. Oswald's Terrace, as she did so
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on many weekends.
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Just before the murder, Stephen had had my daughter on
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the Saturday night, overnight. He came, dropped her back off
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on the Sunday sort of late morning, just seemed normal.
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Mr McFall was also sitting in the car, but hadn't
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gotten out of the car.
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Thanks to overwhelming evidence, police were able to shed some
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light on the horrific events that took place on the
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00:38:30.530 --> 00:38:35.170
night of the murder. It emerged that Gwyn had been
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sexually assaulted. Furthermore, she was dragged through the house, beaten
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and asphyxiated.
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They obtained a DNA sample using her toothbrush and a
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00:38:46.940 --> 00:38:49.559
face mask that she had previously used at the nail
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00:38:49.579 --> 00:38:52.340
bar that she ran with her sister. And using that
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00:38:52.420 --> 00:38:55.579
DNA profile, they were then able to piece together what
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00:38:55.599 --> 00:38:58.139
had happened at the crime scene in Unwin's house.
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As if there could be the slightest doubt of Unwin
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00:39:03.659 --> 00:39:09.789
and McFall's guilt, Gwen's DNA is found on Unwin's tracksuit bottoms.
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It was the evidence investigators needed to charge Stephen Unwin
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00:39:15.480 --> 00:39:17.440
with rape as well as murder.
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00:39:18.300 --> 00:39:21.159
Police were also able to prove that she'd been sexually
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abused with a number of items, including a gas gun.
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00:39:24.510 --> 00:39:28.250
The forensics team found Gwyn's DNA on the barrel of
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00:39:28.309 --> 00:39:35.159
McFall's gas gun. and chillingly on a toy lightsaber belonging
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00:39:35.219 --> 00:39:36.650
to Unwin's young daughter.
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00:39:37.690 --> 00:39:41.769
I think parents feel a particular kind of attachment to
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objects that their children play with, because these objects represent innocence.
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00:39:47.849 --> 00:39:51.050
But those parents are people who have an emotional attachment
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00:39:51.170 --> 00:39:54.239
to their children. I don't think that Unwin does. I
642
00:39:54.280 --> 00:39:57.340
don't think he has an emotional attachment to anyone. So
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I think he would have assaulted Quinn with whatever was there, essentially.
644
00:40:06.019 --> 00:40:09.809
Six months after the murder of Gwyn, the trial began
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on the 20th of February 2018 at Newcastle Crown Court.
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The most striking thing about their court case was their
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behaviour in court, especially McFall. He made a series of
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00:40:19.989 --> 00:40:23.000
outbursts throughout the trial. On one occasion, he made a
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00:40:23.039 --> 00:40:28.280
throat-cutting gesture towards the press bench. Unwin was a lot different.
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00:40:28.300 --> 00:40:31.519
He seemed to be this quiet, smouldering individual. He was
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00:40:31.579 --> 00:40:35.449
clearly capable of incredibly violent, dangerous acts. but he just
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00:40:35.469 --> 00:40:37.969
seemed to sit there with his very calm demeanor throughout
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00:40:38.030 --> 00:40:40.690
the trial, as if he was on trial for an
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00:40:40.710 --> 00:40:42.449
incredibly minor offense.
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Behavior in the courtroom is always really revealing, and this
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00:40:45.989 --> 00:40:49.550
case is no exception. So Unwin was quite cool and
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00:40:49.630 --> 00:40:52.570
calm and collected, and I think that tells us about
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00:40:52.630 --> 00:40:57.639
his coldness, about how unaffected he is by things. McFall,
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00:40:57.659 --> 00:41:00.480
on the other hand, was the opposite end of the spectrum.
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00:41:00.849 --> 00:41:03.760
he would break down and freak out and make a
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00:41:03.840 --> 00:41:06.639
scene on multiple occasions. And I think this tells us
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00:41:06.699 --> 00:41:09.880
a lot about the dynamic between these two. Unwin is
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the puppet master.
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McFall is the puppet.
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00:41:13.440 --> 00:41:17.309
The killers were convinced they'd found a legal loophole by
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which they could escape justice.
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00:41:20.949 --> 00:41:23.809
They're both going to claim that the other one did
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00:41:23.869 --> 00:41:26.289
it to confuse the jury.
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McFall's version of events is that he walked into the
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00:41:30.670 --> 00:41:35.630
property and discovered Unwin raping Quinn and then strangling her.
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00:41:36.570 --> 00:41:39.269
Unwin claimed the polar opposite. He claimed he walked into
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00:41:39.289 --> 00:41:43.389
the property to find McFall strangling Quinn.
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00:41:44.489 --> 00:41:50.050
It's an absolute cacophony of silliness, except it's so awful,
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00:41:50.199 --> 00:41:53.539
so serious, it demands to be treated as it was,
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00:41:53.619 --> 00:41:55.940
which is barbarism.
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00:41:56.449 --> 00:41:59.530
The jury didn't fall for it and decided both men
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00:41:59.570 --> 00:42:05.289
were equally responsible for Gwyn's murder. On the 25th of April, 2018,
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00:42:05.289 --> 00:42:09.889
William McFall and Stephen Unwin were given whole-life prison sentences.
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00:42:10.469 --> 00:42:12.820
This time, they will never be released.
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Anyone connected with this case will remember it for many
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00:42:17.559 --> 00:42:20.639
years because the horrific degree of cruelty they both exhibited
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00:42:20.659 --> 00:42:23.639
towards Gwyn and the way that they disposed of her
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00:42:23.679 --> 00:42:27.300
body There are no happy endings in this case for
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00:42:27.460 --> 00:42:30.820
Quinn's family at all, but one tiny degree of comfort
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00:42:30.900 --> 00:42:33.340
is them knowing that they will never, ever be released
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00:42:33.360 --> 00:42:33.840
from prison.
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00:42:34.880 --> 00:42:42.469
This meeting of two murderous men who meet by coincidence
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00:42:43.110 --> 00:42:46.510
in a jail cell meant that they were more dangerous
689
00:42:46.789 --> 00:42:54.880
together than they were apart. The treatment of Quinn... literally
690
00:42:55.059 --> 00:43:00.840
is heartbreaking. What she had to suffer was all but unimaginable.
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Stephen Unwin and William McFall are ruthless killers in their
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00:43:06.530 --> 00:43:10.010
own right. They preyed on the most vulnerable when they
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00:43:10.090 --> 00:43:15.289
viciously killed elderly pensioners. And when they joined forces, the
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00:43:15.349 --> 00:43:21.320
sadistic nature of their wicked ways knew no bounds. they
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brutally murdered an innocent young mother and set fire to
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00:43:25.789 --> 00:43:30.230
her car while she was still alive inside, all for
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00:43:30.269 --> 00:43:37.219
their own twisted gratification, making Stephen Unwin and William McFall
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two of the world's most evil killers.
