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Shiney Row burning inquest: Failings 'possibly' led to woman's murder | Shiney Row burning inquest: Failings 'possibly' led to woman's murder |
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A failure to share information about a convicted killer after his release "possibly contributed" to him and another man going on to murder an woman, a coroner has ruled. | |
The body of Quyen Ngoc Nguyen, 28, was found in a burning car at Shiney Row, near Sunderland, in August 2017. | The body of Quyen Ngoc Nguyen, 28, was found in a burning car at Shiney Row, near Sunderland, in August 2017. |
Her killers Stephen Unwin and William McFall were out of prison on licence. | Her killers Stephen Unwin and William McFall were out of prison on licence. |
Sunderland coroner Derek Winter said breaches of Unwin's licence were not shared between police and probation. | |
He ruled Ms Nguyen had been unlawfully killed. | |
Unwin, of Houghton-le-Spring, near Sunderland, and Mcfall, of Blackpool, had met in prison while serving life terms for separate murders. | Unwin, of Houghton-le-Spring, near Sunderland, and Mcfall, of Blackpool, had met in prison while serving life terms for separate murders. |
The coroner looked at whether there were systemic and individual failures by those charged with the supervision of the pair after they were released. | |
Mr Winter said police gathered 26 pieces of intelligence about Unwin between 2012 and 2017 but these were not shared with probation officers. | |
Unwin was arrested after a disturbance in 2013 in which he threatened to burn a house down, and he allegedly assaulted a teenager in 2015. | |
A few weeks before Ms Nguyen was murdered, a woman told police Unwin had sent her a message in which he threatened to "smash her jaw in" and take turns with an accomplice to rape her. | |
One month later Unwin raped 28-year-old Ms Nguyen before he and McFall dumped her body in the burning vehicle. They were jailed in April 2018. | |
The coroner said that if police had passed on information there would have been enforcement action against Unwin, although it would not have been enough to recall him to prison - but "might have moderated his behaviour". | |
The inquest was told assessments of Unwin "fell below good practice", with records updated retrospectively after Ms Nguyen was killed | |
The coroner will write to the justice secretary, Northumbria Police's chief constable and the probation service about the need for further training to help prevent future deaths. |