Sydney drug boss and associate jailed for 30 years for 'brutal and callous' murders
A Sydney drug boss and her male associate have both been jailed for at least 30 years for murdering a meth cook and his partner.
Dung Thi Ngo, 43, and Kevin Ly, 27, were each found guilty in November by a NSW Supreme Court jury of murdering Son Thanh Nguyen and Thi Kim Lien Do, whose bodies were found wrapped in bedspreads and dumped in Bankstown and West Hoxton respectively.
Both were killed in April 2013 but Ms Do’s body wasn’t found for nine months.
The trial had been told Ngo – who headed an illicit drug group – suspected Mr Nguyen staged a break-in at the Canley Vale house she had leased for him that year to set up a meth lab.
Ly and a group of men – numbering four or five – dragged the pair inside and bound them before demanding Mr Nguyen return the drugs, a sentencing hearing on Monday was told.
“Don’t kill me, I don’t know anything,” Ms Do screamed at her captors from a bedroom where she sat bleeding from the head. But Ly strangled Mr Nguyen.
Ms Do’s body was so badly decomposed when it was found it’s unclear how she died, but Justice Geoffrey Bellew heard smothering, asphyxiation and choking were all suggested.
The judge described the murders as “brutal and callous” with Ms Do likely killed just to ensure her silence.
Ly and Ngo were both handed maximum terms of 40 years in prison – backdated to September 2016 – with non-parole periods of 30 years.
Ngo closed her eyes and sunk into the chair in the dock when an interpreter conveyed the sentence. Ly took a sip of water – he showed no emotion.
The pair will first be eligible for parole in September 2046.
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