Female drug boss Dung Thi Ngo and associate Kevin Ly cop 30 years’ jail over meth cook and his partner’s murder

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.

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A Sydney drug boss and her male associate have both been jailed for at least 30 years for the “heinous” murders of 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.

Dung Thi Ngo. Picture: AAP

Kevin Ly. Picture: AAP

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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 some missing 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.

Image taken by Google April 10, 2013 at Canley Vale which led to the conviction of Dung Thi Ngo and her enforcer Kevin Ly.

Ly strangled Mr Nguyen, but Do’s body was so badly decomposed when it was found it’s unclear how she died. Justice Geoffrey Bellew heard smothering, asphyxiation and choking were all suggested.

The deaths left the Nguyen and Do families devastated, the court heard. “(Mr Nguyen’s sister) described the circumstances surrounding her brother’s death as a ‘recurring nightmare’,” the judge said.

“One of the effects of Ms Do’s death is that it has deprived her daughter, who now finds herself in foster care, of any relationship with her mother.” The judge described the murders as “brutal and callous” with Ms Do likely killed to ensure her silence.

“There is no evidence that Ms Do played any part in the manufacture of any drugs,” the judge said.

“Indeed, her pleas for help in the bedroom, which I am satisfied were made, would suggest that she knew nothing at all about such manufacture.” Justice Bellew was unable to agree with the crown prosecutor that money had changed hands in the bloody moments before the pair was killed and, as a result, did not agree it was a “contract killing”.

But, he said, the fact the pair had worked together to kill two people made the offending “more heinous” than if only one person had died.

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.