It was a much more personal story about loss and for Mostons residents the crime was as upsetting as it was disquietingly familiar. In 2017 Jean Gillespie, formerly Powell, was released. McNeilly was paroled in 2015 after having her 25 year sentence cut by one year. The court was told that working as a gym orderly and as a 'listener' for other inmates, McNeilly had earned glowing reports for helping a group of 'last chance kids' stay clear of crime and had shown 'a strong measure of remorse and contrition'. Enraged by this baseless claim, the group forced the girl to shave her pubic hair in front of them and clean it off the floor. Looks like you might have an AdBlocker on. Bernadette McNeilly had her sentence reduced because the judge said she was a model prisoner and had an exceptional record. Karen Matthews living in same building as 'Chucky' killer pal Despite the lack of any logic in this explanation, Bernadette convinced them all of this lie and they decided to exact their revenge. Jean was 10 years Cappers senior, a 26-year-old living with three children in a dilapidated home not far from John Cappers house. Leigh's sentence was reduced from 12 to 9 years in November 1994. The crime occurred just two months before the James Bulger murder and the two were bracketed together by the press and turned into symbols; symbols how low the country had sunk, of the state of the nation, of moral decline, of the breakdown of the family unit, of anything you wanted them to represent. Suzanne Capper's Murderer And The Jeremy Hunt Scandal Amphetamines would be weighed out on kitchen scales and stolen cars would be traded. Suzanne Capper, 16, from Greater Manchester was brutally murdered in December 1992 - she was tortured for a week before burning burnt alive View gallery Glyn Powell (above) now 58, was one of. Anyone capable of doing what they did has zero business being allowed out around the public ever again! The craziest gang killed her badly. They had not allowed Suzanne to use a bathroom, so she was defecting on herself. The group would spend the next 5 days assaulting Suzanne, injecting her with amphetamines, and burning her body with cigarettes. Suzanne was held for five days before they decided to kill her and at some point Clifford Pook and Jeffrey Leigh, 26, a known car thief, visited the house to take part in the torture. The horrific spiral of torture and murder that would cost Suzanne her life began in early December 1992 when Powell and McNeilly called at her stepfather John Capper's house in nearby Bewley Walk, where she was living, and took her back to their house in Langworthy Road. Suzanne Capper was tortured and murdered in a case that sickened Manchesters skyline as seen from Werneth Low, Suzanne Capper. Id just moved into a new flat that very day and I told her to give me a couple of weeks to get her room ready. This process of constantly being told about an appeal, then doing an interview and making statements to parole boards is making me ill. Murderer Glyn Powell could soon be a free manCredit: PA Murder of Suzanne Capper - Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core Those who knew her said that all she wanted in her life was to be loved. Initially, the gang all denied any involvement but then Anthony, urged by his father, began to tell the truth. Panicking, all six finally agreed that Suzanne needed to be removed from the house. She had never known her father and lived with her mother and step-father until they divorced when she was 14. Opposite, the houses theres a rusting childrens play area and on the corner of Joan Street and Attleboro Road theres a boarded up property. While I dont think too much of Americas legal system, the sentences of 200+ years handed out to killers are sentences of which I greatly approve. I dont want to know anything anymore. The Child's Play films were directly connected to another murder; that of 16-year-old Suzanne Capper. The few times we did get to stay we were put in a basement closet with a small mattress. On 18January it was 20 years since we buried Suzanne, but I feel like shes never rested with all the fighting weve done as a family to keep them in prison, she said. In a statement the Parole Board said: "The case of Glyn Powell is currently referred to the Parole Board and is awaiting a hearing date. He is the only one of Suzanne's four killers still behind bars. The divorce was traumatic for the whole family but it also meant that Suzanne would never have a permanent home and, along with her older sister, she spent periods living with her mother, her step-father, in the care of the local authority, with family friends, and ultimately with Jean Powell at 97 Langworthy Road. Sixteen-year-old Suzanne Jane Capper died in Withington Hospital on December 18th 1992, from multiple organ failure while in a coma arising from 80% burns after she was deliberately set on fire. Murder of Sylvia Likens. They should be put through everything they put Suzanne through! She was put the boot of a stolen Fiat Panda, and driven to Werneth Low, a remote area in Romiley, Stockport, 15 miles away. Powell and McNeilly lured Suzanne to the house by telling her a boy she liked was there. Dudson was given a minimum term of 18 years. Like 29/20 or dateline, just something to put out there about these evil evil people . At least in America if youre a convicted multiple murderer, when you receive life you better damn well believe they will die incarcerated. After the group made her clean up the hair from the floor they spend hours assaulting her, kicking her, beating her with wooden ornaments and belts, and suffocating her with a plastic bag. I went to the sentencing though and I can still remember clearly the moment the guilty verdicts were read. Jeffrey Leigh was sentenced to 12 years. Genres Suspense, Special Interest Subtitles English [CC] Audio languages English Included with REELZ on Amazon for $1.99/month after trial Watch with REELZ Start your 7-day free trial Add to Watchlist Suzanne Capper was tortured and murdered in a case that sickened Manchester. This poor girl. In this group was a 16-year-old boy called Anthony Dudson and Jeans ex-husband Glyn Powell, 28. Its where a 16-year-old schoolgirl called Suzanne Capper was held captive by six people she thought were her friends. I dont even smack my own children.7 Bernadette claimed she had held the canister of petrol but said that Anthony had grabbed it from her moments before Suzanne went up in flames. The case has been referred previously but there has been no direction for release made. It was the final song to be completed for the release.CreditsAdam Ford - Lyrics, vocalsMatt Ford - Music, guitar, bass, drum programming, mixGuitar tuningBADGBEBass tuningBEADGLyricsHazy lazy faintly shadyWeary Every parent should take this as a cautionary tale of what happens when a child is starved for attention. But what began as punishment for these largely imaginary grievances, quickly morphed into something that was being done for sheer pleasure. Powell would later state, She went straight up in flames and was screaming. As Suzanne burned alive, the group sang Burn, baby, burn while laughing. Capper screamed all through the night. She then told me she wanted to move in with me. But yes, I hope they burn in hell, or better stil, their cover gets blown and their identities revealedthen hopefully they will face full on retribution. Before Suzanne became involved with the group at Jeans house, she had no human companionship other than from her family. She staggered out of the woods and towards a main road where she was spotted by the workmen. Mrs Dunbar still had the trial to face and struggled to cope with the media frenzy that surrounded it. She was then driven to woods near Romiley in Stockport where she was doused in petrol and set on fire. Gillespie, McNeilly, and Powell were sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 25 years. Suzanne Capper was tortured and murdered in a case that sickened Manchester. I do however remembering hearing the news headlines on Radio One that morning that a young girl had been found alive with horrific burns near Stockport and it kind of stayed with me. Morbidology is a weekly true crime podcast created and hosted by Emily G. Thompson. Read it again, pubic NOT public, Wow! Before her death, Capper related that she had been kidnapped and kept prisoner for seven days at a house in Moston . Leigh was released from prison in 1998, Pook in 2001, and Anthony Dudson in 2013. If the Myra Hindley and Ian Brady received whole-life tariffs then so should Jean and Bernadette. There was the failure of teachers from Suzannes school, Moston Brook High School, to act in the face of her extraordinary level of truanting. Jan 15, 2023, 11:26 AM. The British justice system at its bestabsolutely joke. Glyn Powell, 58, was convicted with three others for burning 16-year-old Suzanne Capper alive in Greater Manchester in 1992. She had never known her father and lived with her mother and step-father until they divorced when she was 14. Bernadette poured petrol over the terrified teenager and they set her alight. Once there they doused her in petrol and set her on fire, before leaving her for dead. 2023 She died on December 18, in the burns unit at Withington Hospital. Now only one remains in prison - Glyn Powell. A KILLER whose gang murdered a teenage girl singing 'burn, baby burn' could walk free after being granted a parole hearing. A staff writer for All That's Interesting, Austin Harvey has also had work published with Discover Magazine, Giddy, and Lucid covering topics on mental health, sexual health, history, and sociology. Petty grudges settled by torture spree then murder: Suzanne Capper's Suzanne Cappers murderers Top: Glyn Powell, Bernadette McNeilly, Clifford Pook. her cell. A few weeks before they murdered Suzanne, the girls had beat her up. For decades since Suzanne's death in 1992, her mother Elizabeth Dunbar and veteran Manchester MP, Graham Stringer, have campaigned to oppose any applications by the killers for parole, but three have been released. Therefore a lovely place in heaven. Clifford Pook and Jeffrey Leigh pleaded guilty to false imprisonment and were given 15 year and 12 year sentences respectively. I agree 100%! Dudson was given a minimum term of 18 years. Glyn Powell, 29, was Jeans ex-husband who had convictions for burglary, theft, and being drunk and disorderly. Glyn Powell has a parole hearing coming up, Sign up for our daily newsletter to get the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox. Clifford was Jeans younger brother and he would ultimately go on to torture Suzanne.