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Murder of Suzanne Capper

Suzanne Capper
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Born Suzanne Jane Capper
c. 1976
Manchester, England
Died 18 December 1992(1992-12-18) (aged 16)
Withington Hospital, Manchester, England
Cause of death Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome arising from burns
Body discovered Compstall Road
Parent(s) Elizabeth Capper
Bernadette McNeilly
Criminal charge murder, conspiracy to cause grievous bodily harm, false imprisonment
Criminal penalty Life imprisonment (minimum tariff 25 years)
Criminal status Released
Conviction(s) murder, conspiracy to cause grievous bodily harm, false imprisonment
Jean Powell
Criminal charge murder, conspiracy to cause grievous bodily harm, false imprisonment
Criminal penalty Life imprisonment (minimum tariff 25 years)
Criminal status In prison
Spouse(s) Glyn Powell (separated)
Conviction(s) murder, conspiracy to cause grievous bodily harm, false imprisonment
Glyn Powell
Criminal charge murder, conspiracy to cause grievous bodily harm, false imprisonment
Criminal penalty Life imprisonment (minimum tariff 25 years)
Criminal status In prison
Spouse(s) Jean Powell (separated)
Conviction(s) murder, conspiracy to cause grievous bodily harm, false imprisonment
Jeffrey Leigh
Criminal charge murder, conspiracy to cause grievous bodily harm, false imprisonment
Criminal penalty 12 years imprisonment
Criminal status Released
Conviction(s) false imprisonment
Anthony Michael Dudson
Criminal charge murder, conspiracy to cause grievous bodily harm, false imprisonment
Criminal penalty detained indefinitely (minimum tariff 18 years)
Criminal status In prison
Conviction(s) murder, conspiracy to cause grievous bodily harm, false imprisonment
Clifford Pook
Criminal charge murder, conspiracy to cause grievous bodily harm, false imprisonment
Criminal penalty 15 years imprisonment
Criminal status Released
Conviction(s) conspiracy to cause grievous bodily harm, false imprisonment

The murder of Suzanne Capper was committed in Greater Manchester, England in December 1992. Sixteen-year-old Suzanne Jane Capper died in Withington Hospital on 18 December 1992, from multiple organ failure arising from eighty percent burns after she was deliberately set on fire on 14 December. Before her death, Capper related that she had previously been kidnapped and kept prisoner for seven days at a house in Moston, Manchester, where she was beaten and tortured. She was taken from the house by car, driven into the countryside and forced out of the car virtually naked into a wood at Werneth Low where petrol was poured over her and she was set alight. The torture and murder arose from the "avenging [of] trivial grievances: a sexual insult, infection with pubic lice and the loss of a pink duffle coat."

Detectives conducting the inquiry said that "for sheer mindless brutality" the crime ranked alongside the torture inflicted on children by the Moors murderers. The case went to trial in November 1993, but received "comparatively little publicity" as it coincided with the trial of Robert Thompson and Jon Venables for the murder of James Bulger. On 17 December 1993, Jean Powell, aged 26, her ex-husband Glyn Powell, aged 29, and Bernadette McNeilly, aged 24, were sentenced to life imprisonment for their parts in the murder. Jeffrey Leigh, aged 27, was jailed for twelve years for false imprisonment. Jean Powell's brother Clifford Pook, aged 18, was sentenced to fifteen years in a Young Offenders' Institution for false imprisonment and conspiracy to cause grievous bodily harm. Anthony Michael Dudson, who was 16 years old at the time of the murder, was also found guilty of murder and sentenced to be detained at Her Majesty's pleasure under section 53(1) of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933.


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