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Serial Killer Documentary - Stephen Unwin & William McFall

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Hey, it's Ryan C. Crest for Albertsons, Vaughn's, and Pavilion's. It's time to stock up and save now through October 27th. Get $10 off when you spend $25 or more on participating items. Just look for participating item tags to earn on eligible items from brands like Chobani, Banquet, Peets Coffee, Trisket, and Arrowhead. Clip once and save through October 27th every time you shop. Grab these hot deals before they're gone. Save on brands you trust. Restrictions apply, see website for full terms and conditions. Right now at Subway, try the $4.99 sub of the day. Get a different six inch sub every day for just $4.99 each, like Meatball Marinera on Mondays, Tuna on Tuesdays, and the BMT on Saturdays. It's a different six inch sub every day, packed with protein and your choice of chopped

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It was the evil and fire labels, the just evil people. The killers had met in prison where they struck up a deadly friendship. When Unwin and McFall joined forces, they really amplified their level of dangerousness and violence because it's not just about committing crime and hurting people now. It's about doing that and performing it in front of another individual. In her final hour, their victim suffered unimaginable pain and cruelty. At the hands of Stephen Unwin and William McFall, two of the world's most evil killers. The victims were shot in the backseat of the car. Now the victims are dead in the backseat of the car.

In April 2018, Stephen, Unwin and William McFall were on trial in the crown court at Newcastle. England for the brutal murder of Gwynne Nguyen. Annwyn was also charged with raping the 28-year-old from Vietnam. Covering the day-to-day court proceedings was North East reporter for the Sun newspaper, Robin Perry. Gwynne was subjected to a horrific assault. She was attacked, beaten, strangled with a ligature, and then quite horrifically, Unwine and McFall injected her with a syringe full of whiskey. She was incapacitated and far too badly injured to escape. One Wine then subjected to a series of sexual assaults unraped her. This poor woman has lost her innocence and her life, eventually, to these two mindless thugs. And this wasn't just an act of opportunism. On the 25th of April 2018,

Mr Justice Morris sentenced 40-year-old Stephen Unwine and 51-year-old William McFall to life in prison. Both men were given not just life terms, but full life terms. They're two of only approximately 60 people in the country who have full life terms, which means they will never be released. They will die behind bars. Love me, Jesus! We'll choose. They are considered among the most dangerous criminals in the country. They are highly likely to kill someone else to harm someone else if they were ever released. This was not the first time Stephen Unwine and William McFall had killed. Both men were already convicted murderers before their tact twin. I think we do need to take a step back and say, why on earth were these two men released in the first place? They took people's lives away and the circumstances in which those first murders happened were particularly heinous. William McFall's story begins in Northern Ireland.

He was born in 1967 and grew up in the small town of Green Island near Caliq Furgus in County Antrim. These were quite turbulent times in Northern Ireland, so things weren't particularly stable. There was always a kind of fear in the air about what might happen next. And he's a child who didn't really seem to have very much in the way of sort of guidance and direction and discipline. So right from the word go, he was kind of left to his own devices really. Jimmy Smith knew McFall as a child. The early memories of McFall was I'm just run about in the estate with a pair of Wellington boots on and a pair of shorts and just like a furloughed child. He didn't seem to have any friends at all, but everyone knew. People did really avoid him because he was just, there was something not right. McFall grew up with two sisters and a brother. McFall and his older siblings seem to have no discipline at all.

You know, they're just, they're just round-well, all. McFall was had a weapon in his hand, whether it be a stick or a hammer or a knife. Most bizarre one was a chienso. This really does tell us that he wants to be seen as threatening. He attaches a value to violence. He wants other people to fear him. He wasn't really a valent man with anybody that could challenge him. But if it was someone weaker, then yes, he would be valent. He would be very, very nasty, very vindictive, you know. There were early signs that McFall was a trouble boy with tendencies to cruelty. McFall had an altercation with one of the teachers in Silver Stream Primer's group, and later on that evening, he broke into the school, went to the teachers' praise, put up a goldfish tank, and killed all the fish, and put them under their desks and between books,

and kneeled them to the blackboard as well, just really bizarre behavior. There's also a story that he killed 40 mice by beheading them. He was a brutal little boy, a boy who set himself apart from the crowd by his ferocity. We do see this quite often in cases of people who go on to commit horrendous murders. We look back at their childhoods, and they do seem to have animal cruelty within them. We know that he is using animals to exercise power, to exercise control. When you are a small child, you don't have really much physical control over other people. As actual Nicolien was mad, John, when he was a kid, had just stuck with him. As a young adult, William Mad John McFall had several convictions for violence and firearms offences.

McFall did what he wanted, but then, as he grew towards the second half of his 20s, again in jail, he brags to a fellow cellmate, and then he's going to plot to rob an elderly lady, who lives basically a hundred yards from his house, whom he's convinced has loads of cash under a bed. William McFall lived on station road, not far from 86-year-old Martha Gilmore. Martha was a frail woman who had bad arthritis and struggled with movement. She relied on carers for help, and one of the carers to visit her regularly was community nurse Anne Scott. She was just a lady that I just headed off with her from the word go, and she was a lady that I was very, very fond of. She did go out using her two sticks, but she would have been very slow, and she was very fragile,

but fiercely independent, and always made me very welcome. In the early hours of Sunday, the 5th of May, 1996, McFall armed with a hammer, went to Martha Gilmore's semi-detached bungalow on station road, with the intention of burgling her. He hoped to find loads of cash under her bed. He rang the doorbell. Nobody answered. She'd obviously been in bed, because she was slow, because of her rigid mobility. She was taken too long to come to the door. But of course, McFall doesn't factor any of this into his thinking. Nobody comes to the door, because she can't get up very quickly. She's simply an old lady, who finds movement extremely difficult. He rings the doorbell again. No response. So McFall breaks in. By this point, Martha Gilmore has got up and gone into the hallway.

Now McFall realises that the house isn't empty. He's convinced she can identify him. After all, they live about 100 yards apart, so he's pretty likely she could. So without hesitation, he kills her. He hits her over the head with a hammer. McFall battered the frail old woman three times on the back of the head. This is a violent young man, who acts on instinct, and also has a vengeful temper. So rather than risk, rather than risk leaving Martha alive, he kills her. But not only that, he then drags her along the hallway, so that he can get back out of the door again, and on the way breaks her sternum. McFall fled to scene, leaving Martha dead in the hallway, in a pool of her own blood. The news came on. On it said, an elderly lady had been murdered. She lived in the station road in Green Island, and I know this signs ridiculous.

But I just knew you, and my heart that it was Martha. McFall was arrested within hours of the murder, after police discovered fingerprints on Martha's front door, which matched those held on file for William McFall. When his name came up, I wasn't surprised that McFall had killed her. It was obvious. The most striking thing was the violence behind it, it's out of order, killing all the women. We often find this in cases of killers like this individual. They begin by targeting very vulnerable people, because they are easier to control. It's almost like a testing out, essentially, of a particular offense, of a particular crime, to see if they can do it. This lady who was kind, who was gentile, who didn't know anybody any harm, who should have been safe in the sanctuary of her own home,

but know it was invaded, and she was horribly and brutally attacked. He didn't need to use a hammer on a way frail lady like Martha. He could have pushed her out of his way. No one deserves to be attacked like that, but Martha was a particularly defenseless, not only her age, but her frailty as well against a young man, waiting a hammer. It's despicable. On the 11th of April 1997, William McFall was sentenced to life in prison at Belfast Crown Court for the murder of Martha Gilmore. This is a violent man, truly given his just desserts and life sentence for murder. McFall was sent to HMP Swaleside in Kent, England, where he was housed with like-minded individuals. During his time behind bars, he shared a cell with Stephen Unwin. The two convicted killers struck up a close friendship.

Friendships within prison are an interesting thing, because for some people, they will not want to continue those friendships when they get out, because they want to tie over a new leaf, they want to start again. But on the other hand, prison friendships can often be the most meaningful, the deepest attachment that somebody has felt to another individual in their entire lives. And I think potentially that's what we're looking at in this case. Hey, it's Ryan C. Crest for Albertsons, Vaughn's and Pavilion. It's time to stock up and save now through October 27th. Get $10 off when you spend $25 or more on participating items. Just look for participating item tags that are an uneligible items from brands like Bubbler, Ghost Energy, Lindoor, Halo Top, Vital Farms, Kellogg's, Campbell's and Hines. Clip once and save through October 27th every time you shop. Grab these hot deals before they're gone. Restrictions apply, see website for full terms and conditions.

Try the ball. Only at McDonald's. Stephen Unwin's story begins in 1978. He was born on the 16th of February in Durham. He grew up with an older sister in fence houses, a working-class village near Sunderland in the northeast of England. Like McFall, he was a troubled boy from an early age. Unwin is a face, if you like, in that local criminal community. At 13, there was arson on a heavy goods vehicle. There's theft. There's another rush with the law at 17. More burglary, more theft. Out of control would be a contemporary way of describing him. Bouncing in and out of juvenile care. In the mid-1990s when Unwin was a teenager, he aburgelled the house of an amputee of 72. Unwin broke into his house.

He forced a panel on the front door. He went in downstairs. The chap was asleep upstairs, obviously, to get nice false leg off. Unwin stalled some benefit books, but most remarkable about this offense was that all he had to do was just leave the house. He hadn't been disturbed. What he then did, he set five separate seats of fire downstairs. It was a crime of opportunity, but it also indicated that he was prepared to try and cover his tracks, because the certain amount of arson was involved. And that became one of Unwin's fingerprints. Luckily, neighbours were able to rescue the old man in time. Later that day, Unwin was caught when he tried to cash in the books. He is engaging in quite lawless behaviour from a very early age. These incidents happened before he was 18 years old. So this shows somebody who doesn't have respect for the law,

who likes to create chaos, essentially. But the most horrifying part of this story of the young life of Stephen Unwin comes when he apparently befriends an aged pharmacist called John Greenwell. He was 73 years of age, a retired pharmacist. He was well respected in the community. In year 102, young lads who used to do run messages for him, really reading nice man from all accounts. In the summer of 1998, one of the neighbourhood boys introduced 20-year-old Stephen Unwin to the retired pharmacist. John had terminal cancer and was often bedridden. He lived very close to Unwin, who decided one day he'd steal a few items from the old man's house. Unwin burgls Greenwell and steals among other things, a Zenit camera, a friend, remonstrates with him and says, you can't do that. You must return the goods that you stolen. And so a very unrepentant, in fact, I would say probably furious,

Unwin leaves what's he stolen on the doorstep, including the Zenit camera. But now Unwin's got a grudge. He's going to teach Greenwell a lesson. On the 25th of December 1998, two uniform police officers on patrol spotted John Greenwell's bungalow on fire. They were notified the fire brigade who attended and after several hours, extinctions to the players. And once again, they realised that there's a body in the back room. He was lying on a bed, fierce up, and it was the body of Mr. Greenwell. Colin Dobson was the senior investigating officer on call that Christmas bang holiday weekend. I knew that well, dealing with the murder investigation, once we saw the scene. Mr. Greenwell's body was desiccated, badly burned. When a pathologist carried out the force mortem, it was quite evident that he'd received several blows to the head. We think that he attacked Mr. Greenwell as he lay in bed,

using the Zenit camera. We also realised that he'd been stabbed to the chest, once to the chest. So the cause of death was actually fractured school and brain damage, as well as the stab wound. Unwinds set fire to several parts of the house, including John's body. He stole a television set and a VHS recorder. Shortly after unwinded set fire to John's home, the two police officers on patrol had seen him pushing a wheelie bin down the road, and had stopped him. Where are you going? What you got there? He said, oh, I'm just returning the VHS recorder for some. They were suspicious to put it politely and they watched what house he goes into. As the officers walked on, they spotted John Greenwell's bungalow on fire. It didn't take Colin Dobson and his team long to connect the dots between the fire and unwind. They arrested him the same day.

Once he was arrested and we did a check and we realised that he had previous convictions, and indeed he had two previous convictions of arson. There's no doubt that he was setting fire to the different scenes to destroy evidence, evidence of contact, any day of evidence and hangar at all. Unwind had been arrested. We had no eye witnesses. We had no forensic evidence. There was no CCTV in the area. Although he was a prime suspect, we had to build the bouquet assume. But unwind made one vital mistake. He'd wrapped the VHS recorder in a bin bag and taped it with sticky tape. The beauty about this one was that our own scenes of crime officers, they have found amongst the debris a roll of cellar tape. The forensic science service was able to see that the roll of cellar tape was a physical match to the tape used on the recovered bin liners we got back off on one. Not only that, there was a fingerprint on the cellar tape roll which was on one's fingerprint. When we got that evidence obviously we had placed

only on the property. There was no doubt he was the person responsible for Mr. Greenwell's savage murder and we chard him with murder. Stephen Unwind pleaded guilty to the murder of 73-year-old pensioner John Greenwell. On the 29th of October 1999, the 21-year-old was sentenced to life in prison at Newcastle Crown Court. I was watching Unwind at the time and in my eye he showed no remorse whatsoever. At the end of Mr. Greenwell's case I was interviewed and I remember saying quite clearly that I thought Unwind was a very very dangerous man and I didn't see that lightly. Stephen Unwind and William McFall were both in their 20s when they killed frail and defenseless pensioners. One question must always remain. McFall and Unwind both bergled, elderly, very vulnerable people. Why didn't they just leave it? But burglary. Why did they proceed

to kill Martha and John? What was it in their nature, in their character, that drove them to kill? I would argue that it's a propensity to violence and a propensity to murder that exists in both men, which is why when you add them together they become even more dangerous. I think burglary's are a bit of a side show to what these crimes are really about. They are about dominating and controlling other people and their victims were elderly. They were vulnerable. This really does add to the gravity of their crimes. They're never going to go after some muscle bound man who is more than a match for them. They will always target those who can't fight back. William McFall and Stephen Unwind too convicted killers would meet and become friends in prison. Both men were released on license after serving just 14 years of their life sentences. While Unwind was still in prison, he got back in touch with a girl he'd met as a teenager.

To protect her identity, Rachel is not her real name and her image has been concealed. When I first met Stephen, it was quite charming. The typical teenage charming lad, a bit of Jack the Lad, made of slath and then we started dating for a little bit. It was like a teenage sort of summer warm-man kind of thing. And then we just ended up losing touch after that. When I first started talking to Stephen back in prison, I didn't really think much of it. A mutual friend got us talking again through phone calls and letters and stuff. He had the charm when I was speaking over on the phone. Made everything seem like it was okay. In December 2012, 34-year-old Stephen Unwind was released on license to serve the remaining years of his life sentence supervised by probation. When Stephen was released from prison, he convinced everyone was a changed man of Avanese probation officer.

Avan Shea believed that he was remorseful for what he'd done, that he was never going to reaffend again. He moved back to his native northeast and lived and worked in the Sunderland area and the hotel is spring area where he worked as a handyman, carrying out maintenance on properties. By 2014, Rachel and Unwind lived together and were expecting a daughter. When I first told Stephen I was pregnant, he was quite excited. He was there through the pregnancy and he was there with the birth as well. He was quite good at the birth. Family life was great at first. Absolutely, daughter and dad, to be honest. He was a good dad to her. It's one thing I can't see. Many men who engage in criminal and violent behaviour are fathers and I would say that none of them are good fathers. What they are very good at is performing the role of the good father, the doating father because they're aware that that is going to distract attention. And Unwind struggled to keep up the charade of the caring, loving partner and dad.

He was a very jealous man. Stephen was abusive a couple of times once he got all of us by the throught. Never hit us, but more sort of mental abuse. Convinced I wasn't good enough for anybody else, that I was his and his only. He was an angry man and we had lots of issues. Especially when he was drinking. He became very, very angry. Just everything and everyone. I look at Unwind's behaviour and what I see is somebody who is a misogynist. Men like Unwind are possessive and jealous in their relationships with women because they see women as their possessions who are there to meet their needs. While Unwind was living with Rachel, he kept in touch with his old cellmate, William McFall, who'd moved to Blackpool after his release from prison in 2010. Stephen used to talk about McFall a lot. My first impression of McFall was that he was just bonkers, basically. He liked to have a good laugh. He liked these drugs.

He was smoke, cannabis. But Rachel soon realised there was something about McFall that didn't feel right. McFall was very scary. Just the way he looked. That he had a lot of anger inside him, which was really scary, and never felt safe around him. The relationship between Rachel and Unwind was becoming increasingly strained. The couple eventually broke up in December 2016. Final separation from Stephen was just a had enough of failing that we are felt. I was never happy. If Raleigh did do it on our little one, I wasn't happy with him, and I'd just said enough, it's enough. Rachel's departure from her relationship with Stephen Unwind is significant. I think it unsettles Unwind, and he doesn't quite know where to turn. The obvious person, of course, is McFall, his, quote's friend. And indeed, McFall subments that by leaving Blackpool and moving to stay with Unwind.

By the summer of 2017, McFall and Unwind, the two convicted killers released on license, were living together at St. Oswald's Terrace in the Houghton the Spring Area near Sunderland. When Unwind and McFall joined forces, they really amplified their level of dangerousness and violence, because it's not just about committing crime and hurting people now, it's about doing that and performing it in front of another individual. So you have that competitive element that's going on. Unwinds and McFall's behavior escalated. They stole substantial cannabis crops and tried to get hold of guns. They were like a ticking time bomb about to explode. Hey, it's Ryan C. Crest for Albertsons, Vaughn's, and Pavilion's. It's time to stock up and save now through October 27th.

Get $10 off when you spend $25 or more on participating items. Just look for participating item tags to earn on eligible items from brands like Bubbler, Ghost Energy, Lindor, Halo Top, Vital Farms, Kellogg's, Campbell's and Hines. Clip once and save through October 27th every time you shop. Grab these hot deals before they're gone. Restrictions apply. See website for full terms and conditions. In the early hours of the 15th of August, 2017, Tyne and Wear Fire Service in England received what seemed to be a routine 999 call. A car had been spotted and blazed down a quiet lane near the allotments behind shiny row in Houghton, the spring. But the inferno was concealing an horrific secret. When the fire brigade finally extinguished the blaze, they do discover what they think is the body of a child. In the back, in fact, it's just a very small woman.

And it rapidly turns into a murder investigation. The flames are so intense, the horrific damage have been caused to a body and one investigate as we're able to get close to the car. They discovered that her body had been fused into the backseat. The car had been burning for over an hour, and the dead body inside was unidentifiable. Initial information came out from the police in the normal fashion that journalists get to hear about breaking news stories. But there was very little detail to start with. It was a curious case, not much information was given initially. The passport and other documentation were recovered from the burnt-out car, but police needed more to identify the body on the backseat of the Black Audi.

Later that morning, Gwen, the yacht, the when woke up, and realized her sister, Gwen, had not come home the night before. She tried to contact her by mobile phone without success, and she alerted the authorities and went out looking for her herself without any success. And later in the day, she was told the terrible news that Gwen's car had been found burnt out and that there was a body inside it. Only dental records could confirm that the body found in the burnt-out car was that of her sister, 28-year-old mother of two, Gwen New York-Nawain. Gwen was originally from Vietnam, little is known about her life before she relocated to Berkeley near Gateshead. Um, she arrived in Britain in 2010 when she moved to London, a study business at a university.

Following her studies, she moved to the northeast of England, where she worked with her sister in a nail bar. She also was involved in the management of residential properties, looking after them and sourcing tenants for those properties. She was a caring, loving, devoted, hard work in mother of two. All her work in hours really was spent providing for her family. Thanks to CCTV footage, police were quickly able to retrace Gwen's final steps. CCTV footage was crucial to this case and the first relevant footage was at 612 pm when Quinn was seen leaving Glitten Ails, the nail bar that she ran with her sister in Gateshead. And then there's some more CCTV that shows her outside the back of Unwin's house. Gwen had driven two St. Oswell's terrors for a business meeting with Stephen Unwin. Quinn came into contact with Unwin because she managed a number of residential properties and

Unwin would work as a handyman doing minor maintenance jobs on these properties. McFall would work for £50 a day helping Unwin in this job. Quinn and her sister spoke at 7 o'clock when her sister asked her when she would be home that night. And Quinn explained she would be late because she had some business to attend to at a rental property. At 7.24 pm, Quinn arrived at St. Oswell's terrors and was greeted by Stephen Unwin. This is the last moment that Quinn is ever seen alive by anyone other than Unwin Unwin Unwookful. Unwin invites her in having told McFall to hide, to conceal his existence in the house. Once Quinn had entered the property, it isn't exactly known apart from by Unwin Unwookful, exactly what happened. Now precisely what happens next and in precisely what order is a matter of conjecture. But we can be sure that Quinn, this tiny little Vietnamese woman, is subdued very quickly.

The attack on Quinn happened over a number of hours and at any point during this time either or both of these men could have decided not to go any further to call it a day to say no we're not doing any more here. But they didn't, they followed it through and I think they fed off each other's energy when they were doing that. Quinn was forced to hand over her bank cards and reveal the pin numbers. So she's been in their hands for hours and she's been subjected to the worst imaginable treatment. She's been just about allowed to live so they can make sure they've got the right pin number so that she can in a sense give them money. At 9.51 pm Unwin Unwin was seen getting into his van at St Oswell's terrace. The CCTV camera at the back of the house captured Unwin leaving the

property and then driving to a nearby co-op way used her bank card to withdraw cash and then to go and buy a bottle of spirits. Unwin withdrew 500 pounds using Quinn's card, the pin number she was given them was correct. But then the most horrific element of all emerges. At 11.35 pm the CCTV at the back of the house captured more movement. Shortly after half past 11 that evening in August 2017 the two men are seen again on CCTV carrying Quinn's body wrapped in a sheet to the back of her car, her Audi. Quinn was very petite she was only five foot tall and seven stones and Unwin was clearly capable of carrying her out. McFarl more behind him making sure the sheet completely covered her body. They put her in the back seat and drive it not terribly

far away. She was still alive at this point but only just. They then drove a short distance around a mile away to a deserted remote lane where they set fire to the car and an attempt to cover their tracks. While the fire was taking hold of the car with Quinn lying gravely injured in the back seat Unwin and McFarl walked back home as if nothing had happened. Several CCTV cameras picked up their whereabouts as they returned on foot to St Oswell's terrace to pick up Unwin's car. 30 minutes after killing Quinn and disposing of her body by setting her car light they were in Unwin's Audi driving around the local area. The men drove to a local post office to use Quinn's back card once more and withdrew another 500 pounds. They returned to St Oswell's terrace around the same time the burning car was spotted and the fire service was called at 1234 AM.

The details of how McFarl and Unwin took Quinn in her own car to a deserted road where they would then set fire to her body. There are so many elements here of control of possession. We have taken what we wanted from you. We've had our fun with you. We're now going to destroy you and we're going to destroy something that's important to you as well. Your car is a symbol of your success and your independence and your accomplishments so we're going to get rid of that too. The next day Quinn's ruthless killers casually went shopping and to the pub with no apparent fear of being caught for their crimes. The CCTV images captured on the evening of the 14th of August were the last time Quinn, New York, New-Wen was seen alive. Four hours later her dead body was discovered inside a burned out car. During the four hour deal in the house when Quinn was lying on the floor after being severely beaten and when she was close to death quite unbelievably McFarl and

Unwin then cooked a curry and casually ate it. I think this shows... Hey it's Ryan C. Crest for Albertsons, Vaughn's and Pavilion. It's time to stock up and save now through October 27th. Get $10 off when you spend $25 or more on participating items. Just look for participating item tags to earn on eligible items from brands like Bubbler, Ghost Energy, Lindor, Halo Top, Vito Farms, Kellogg's, Campbell's and Hines. Clip once and save through October 27th every time you shop. Grab these hot deals before they're gone. Restrictions apply. See website for full terms and conditions. The absolute lack of empathy, the absolute lack of attachment, of understanding of other people's emotions and suffering that these men have. They are just about fulfilling their own basic needs. They cooked the curry because they were hungry. They wanted to eat and the fact that somebody's dying on the floor next to them is immaterial to them. Thanks to CCTV, the killers were abouts on the night of the murder and the following day could be quickly retraced. The footage was damning.

The police were onto one when very quickly, early investigations led them to his door. He had used Quinn's bank card to withdraw money from her accountant and bought some spirits with it and he'd been caught on various CCTV in the area. They have left so much evidence. There is so much CCTV that it begs belief. They haven't even thought out any explanation for any of this action. Within 24 hours of the attack on Quinn, the police arrested on when McFall was actually pulled into the inquiry early on as a witness initially but he was very quickly arrested as a suspect as well. Looking at the evidence against it was incredibly compelling and it shows us how stupid these two were as well. They're very brutish, they're very primitive in a way because they're so focused on the violence, they're so fixated on that, that they're not really doing very much to think about how they're going to get away with it and that's where they're doing. Police also analyzed the data

on the men's mobile phones. The content was highly incriminating. Evidence was found on the phones of them chatting to each other, plotting the attack going back a number of weeks and also of them communicating with each other and other people in the hours after Quinn had been murdered. Approximately half an hour after they set fire to Quinn's car, and McFall took a selfie of the both of them in the car, McFall was smiling on the selfie, seemingly without a care in the world and he sent that to a friend. The fact that this guy wanted to document this in a photograph, he wanted to take a picture of himself at this time. This is really significant. This is a sort of decisive moment for him that he wants to capture in a picture. It's almost a celebratory mood. Both men are charged with the murder of Quinn. News of the murder spread through the local community. Unwin's ex partner and mother that his daughter was shocked. It was on the local news, his picture got brought up and I just

burst into tears. It's just the thought that he'd been in my life really. Only the day before killing Quinn, Unwin's daughter had stayed with him at St Oswell's terrace as she did so on many weekends. Just before the murder, Stabil had had me daughter on Saturday night or the night. He came, dropped her back off on a Sunday sort of late morning, just same normal. Mr McFall was all so sitting in the car, but hadn't getting out the car. Thanks to overwhelming evidence, police were able to shed some light on the horrific events that took place on the night of the murder. It emerged that Quinn had been sexually assaulted. Furthermore, she was dragged through the house, beaten and as fixated. They obtained a DNA sample using her toothbrush and a face mask that she had previously used at the nail bar that she run with a sister and using that DNA profile. They

were then able to piece together what had happened up the crime scene in Unwin's house. As if there could be the slightest doubt of Unwin and McFall's guilt, Quinn's DNA is found on Unwin's tracksuit bottoms. It was the evidence investigators needed to charge Stephen Unwin with rape as well as murder. Police were also able to prove that she'd been sexually abused with a number of items including a gas gun. The forensics team found Quinn's DNA on the barrel of McFall's gas gun. And, shillingly, on a toy lightsaber belonging to Unwin's young daughter. I think parents feel a particular kind of attachment to objects that their children play with because these objects represent innocence. But those parents are people who have an emotional attachment to their children. I don't think that Unwin does. I don't think he has an emotional

attachment to anyone. So I think he would have assaulted Quinn with whatever was there, essentially. Six months after the murder of Quinn, the trial began on the 20th of February, 2018 at Newcastle Crown Court. The most striking thing about their court case was their behavior in court, especially McFall. He made a series of outbursts throughout the trial. A one-acation, he made a throat-cutting gesture towards the press bench. Unwin was a lot different. He seemed to be this quiet, smoldering individual. He was clearly capable, incredibly violent, dangerous acts. But he just seemed to sit there with his very calm demeanor throughout the trial, as if he was on trial for incredibly minor offends. The behavior in the courtroom is always really revealing and this case is no exception. So Unwin was quite cool and calm and collected. And I think that tells us about his coldness, about how unaffected he is by things. McFall on the other hand was the opposite end of the

spectrum. He would break down and freak out and make a scene on multiple occasions. And I think this tells us a lot about the dynamic between these two. Unwin is the puppet master. McFall is the puppet. The killers were convinced they'd found a legal loophole by which they could escape justice. They're both going to claim that the other one did it, to confuse the jury. McFall's version of events is that he walked into the property and discovered Unwin raping Quinn and then strangling her. Unwin claimed the polar opposite. He claimed he walked into the property to find McFall strangling Quinn. It's an absolute cacophony of silliness, except it's so awful, so serious. It demands to be treated as it was, which is barbarism. The jury didn't fall for it and decided both men were equally responsible for Quinn's murder.

On the 25th of April 2018, William McFall and Stephen Unwin were given whole life prison sentences. This time, they will never be released. Anyone connected with this case will remember it for many years because the horrific degree of cruelty they both exhibited towards Quinn and their way that they dispute of her body. There are no happy endings in this case for Quinn's family at all, but one tiny degree of comfort is them knowing that they will never ever be released from prison. This meeting of two murderous men who meet by coincidence in a jail cell meant that they were more dangerous together than they were apart. The treatment of Quinn literally is heartbreaking. What she had to suffer was all but unimaginable.

Stephen Unwin and William McFall are ruthless killers in their own right. They prayed on the most vulnerable when they viciously killed elderly pensioners. And when they joined forces, the sadistic nature of their wicked ways knew no bounds. They brutally murdered an innocent young mother and set fire to her car while she was still alive inside, all for their own twisted gratification. Making Stephen Unwin and William McFall two of the world's most evil killers.

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