When I got to the hospital all I saw was this figure in bed, covered in bandages with just her face showing. There are many unanswered questions, such as how could it have happened in these terraced houses where the walls are paper thin and where it would have been impossible not to hear Suzannes screams? However, the couple split when Capper was only 14 years old a split that proved to be traumatic for the whole family. Bernadette Mcneilly Profiles | Facebook She then told me she wanted to move in with me. McNeilly had also convinced herself that Capper had stolen a pink duffle coat from her, worth around $60. Murder of Suzanne Capper - Wikipedia Gillespie, McNeilly, and Powell were sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 25 years. When all four contracted pubic lice in November, Bernadette and Jean pinned the blame on Suzanne because she sometimes slept in the downstairs bed in 97 Langworthy Road. She came to where I worked and I noticed a bruise on her face. She stayed in touch with Matthews and moved to the same area when she was freed. A source said of Matthews and McNeilly - who live in the south of England: Everyone nearby is well aware of what both women were sent to prison for. Aside from one brief visit, the last time Mrs Dunbar was in Moston was 20 years ago today when Suzannes funeral procession passed through some of her favourite haunts before making its way to Blackley Cemetery for her burial. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. She started to skip school, and her teachers said her behaviour was erratic. Another prisoner told us: She is not sorry. I know this not to be true. Their bullying of Suzanne also began to escalate into outright violence. At one point, just hours before her death, Bernadette McNeilly injected Capper with amphetamines, placed headphones over her ears, and blasted rave music at full volume featuring Chuckys catchphrase looping on repeat: Im Chucky. She was given a bath in concentrated disinfectants, burning her skin. But she will only have justice if those murderers remain in prison., As always you can unsubscribe at any time. So at this point you have the two mothers and 6 children in the house. They left her for dead in the early hours of the morning, singing Burn, Baby, Burn all the way home. Suzanne was living with her step-father, John Capper, at 6 Bewley Walk when on 7December, Jean and Bernadette knocked on the door and led Suzanne back to their house on Langworthy Road. All this reflects a society showing reckless disregard for the survival of its own decency. In the short walk to 6 Bewley Walk, where Suzanne lived with her step-father, you can see a different Moston being created. The sick couple are said to have had a series of nasty rows recently, with Matthews threatening to call the cops. The Daily Mail, the day the verdicts were read, used the crime as an excuse to attack the welfare system and wrote: It is interesting to note that most of Suzanne's tormentors were on social security. She somehow managed to survive just long enough to tell the police who her attackers were. Mum-of-three McNeilly and her drug-crazed gang beat their helpless victim, shackled her to a bed, injected her with drugs and pulled out her front teeth with pliers at a house in Moston, Manchester in December 1992. Thats what she did in the end, she survived her ordeal long enough to name every single one of them.". Pook had been sitting by the side of the road one day, lamenting a situation with his girlfriend, when Capper approached him to see if he was okay. More can be done but were heading in the right direction.. At the hospital, before she fell into a coma and ultimately died, she was able to tell the police who she was, what had happened, and who, exactly, had been responsible. The day I interviewed Mrs Dunbar she had just received news that Anthony Dudson had lost his appeal for full parole. She went on to have an affair with the prison governor Mike Martin, who resigned his post before disciplinary action could be taken. 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'. Kyle Walker admits that he didn't expect Erling Haaland to have the 50-goal impact that he's had since joining Man City last summer. The kidnap faker is best pals with killer Bernadette McNeilly, Matthews is engaged to handyman Paul Saunders, despite being told of his child sex abuse past, Suzanne Capper was tortured and set alight. Bernadette McNeilly is serving. Officers spoke to both Matthews, 44, and her lover Paul Saunders, 57, but made no arrests before leaving. Just a few hours previous, on 14December, Jean, Bernadette, Glyn, and Anthony had bundled Suzanne into the boot of a stolen Fiat Panda and driven her to a secluded spot to murder her. Jean was 10 years Cappers senior, a 26-year-old living with three children in a dilapidated home not far from John Cappers house. The teenager was stripped, plunged into a bath of disinfectant and forced to listen to recordings of McNeilly imitating Chucky, the demonic doll from horror film Childs Play. Suzanne had 75 per cent burns to her body but was still alive. They injected themselves and Suzanne with amphetamines and lost themselves in sadism and depravity. I went down to have a look and the houses are still standing. She was also good friends with Gloucester House of Horrors monster Rose West. In November 1992, just a few weeks before her death, Suzanne turned up at the day centre having been beaten up by Jean. Her mouth was stuffed with socks so she couldnt scream. I just wish we still had the death penalty.. Confidentials Manchester. Its where a 16-year-old schoolgirl called Suzanne Capper was held captive by six people she thought were her friends. With the last of her strength, she pulled herself to the nearest roadway, where she was spotted by the driver of a passing vehicle. A source said: Matthews and Saunders had just come in not so long ago from shopping with loads of bags when police knocked on her door. McNeilly enjoyed scores of day release outings from HMP Styal in Cheshire after a High Court judge cut her minimum 25-year sentence in 2012. Her release will devastate Suzannes family. Karen Matthews was dubbed Britains worst mum for staging daughter Shannons disappearance. Then a few days later, with the news that two ten-year-olds had been arrested, being asked by my parents and their friends whether I knew it was wrong to do what Venables and Thompson did. I wasnt allowed to attend the first day of the trial because they were going over some of the worst things they had done to her. Michelle was fairly close with Suzanne from what I can gather in my research. Bernadette McNeilly blamed Capper. The amphetamines would have not allowed her to sleep. It was in this apparent wilderness that Suzannes killers initially proposed dumping her, but maybe they'd learnt from the mistakes of a man who had terrorised Moston years previously. Killer whose gang tortured teenage girl to Chucky horror film quotes They all had to shave their genitals and were annoyed by it. McNeilly stayed in touch with Matthews during her final years in prison and moved to the same town when she was freed. Jean and Bernadette were weighing amphetamines in the kitchen, dealing them in the living room, selling stolen car parts, and sleeping with a slew of people who came through the house for drugs chiefly, a 16-year-old named Anthony Dudson, who entered a sexual relationship with both Powell and McNeilly, as well as Suzanne Capper. She would do anything to make her jail life better and was in lots of sexual relationships with women and men in jail. She never knew her biological father as he had walked out before Suzanne had been born, and her mother Elizabeth Dunbar had married. She pampered their every whim.Just a month before Suzannes murder, November 1992,she went to visit her mother with a massive black eye,asking if she could stay with her, but her mother turned away, saying that her boyfriend wouldnt like it if Suzanne was to stay. They have had reports of some kind of disturbance.. Clifford Pook and Jeffrey Leigh pleaded guilty to false imprisonment and were given 15 year and 12 year sentences respectively. After a number of failed attempts to ignite her, Glyn applied a lighter he had borrowed from Clifford directly to Suzannes naked back. Please whitelist confidentials.com to continue to our site and enjoy an Ad-Light experience. The bedframe to which Suzanne Capper was bound for five days while her supposed friends tortured her. Paul Barlowwho was Michelles fianc said Suzanne turned up on her doorstep with a huge black eye and said she wanted to get away from the trouble she had been having. Matthews moved in paedo fianc Paul Saunders earlier this month and cops had to be called to the pad just days ago following a blazing row. Our pediatric specialists work as a team to meet the needs of each child by drawing from the resources of our world-class clinical programs. She now lives almost 200 miles from the West Yorkshire town and under the terms of her release she is not allowed to set foot in the district but speaks to several friends regularly on the phone and via social media. Karen Matthews living in same building as 'Chucky' killer pal Mrs Dunbar also criticised the decisions of the parole board. I couldnt recognise her.. Suzanne was meant to move in on Christmas Eve. When we confronted her about it, she actually threatened to burn our house down.. Murderer McNeilly, 51, was released in 2015. He was sitting on his own by the side of a road, upset because he was having problems with his girlfriend, when Suzanne went over to see if he was okay. Meanwhile, paedophile Roy Whiting, 63 - who murdered schoolgirl Sarah Payne in 2000 - is said to have become pals with child rapist Sidney Cooke, 94, at HMP Wakefield, West Yorks. The next day, Suzanne Cappers friends moved her into McNeillys former home, where no children were present to hear the teenager scream. Bernadette McNeilly was paroled in 2015 after having her 25-year sentence cut by one year Credit: PA 8 Jeanne Powell had babysat Suzanne since Capper was 10 years old Credit: PA 8 Jeffrey Leigh was sentenced to 12 years behind bars for his role, but was released after serving five Credit: PA 8 BERNADETTE McNEILLY AKA BERNIE GARDNER - READING RINGLEADER OF GROUP WHO KIDNAPPED RAPED TORTURED AND KILLED YOUNG SUZANNE CAPPER NOW FREE AND LIVING IN READING WHILST WORKING IN M&S FACEBOOK HAVE REMOVED OUR POST WHERE WE EXPOSED BERNADETTE MCNEILLY WHO NOW USES THE NAME BERNIE GARDNER AND LIVES IN READING Matthews was released after serving just half her sentence for kidnapping Shannon in a bid to grab 50,000 in reward cash. She spent 21 years behind bars for setting fire to 16-year-old Suzanne Capper in 1992. Jean Powell was one of the three people in the group given a life sentence for her role in Suzanne Cappers death. So too has 'Chucky' killer Bernadette McNeilly, who spent 21 years in prison for the sadistic murder of 16-year-old Suzanne Capper. Burnt Alive The Most Chilling Murder In UK History - Medium Both women dealt drugs and had a very bad relationship with their neighbors, once setting a neighbors washing on fire. Something went wrong, please try again later. Jean later claimed that even she was disturbed by the behaviour Bernadette displayed. She was also "good friends" with Gloucester House of Horrors monster Rose West. Pediatric Rheumatology Online J 2012 29;10(1):29. She had originally been renting 91 Langworthy Rd, but after becoming best friends with Jean Powell, decided to move in with her with her own 3 children. Twenty-four-year-old Bernadette McNeilly had three children of her own and had been living only a few doors down from Jean Powell, but by 1992, she had all but moved in to Powell's house, along with her children. Jean Powell, 26, Glyn Powell, 29, and Bernadette McNeilly, 24, were jailed for life for murder. A boy she liked was going to be there, they told her. Kidnap faker Karen Matthews - dubbed Britain's worst mum for staging daughter Shannon's disappearance - has asked best pal Bernadette McNeilly to be her bridesmaid, Don't miss a thing! Matthews is still engaged to handyman Saunders despite being told of his wicked child sex abuse past. Cops were called to the home after receiving reports of a disturbance at the property. This instability and frequent relocating ultimately led Suzanne Capper to the home of Jean Powell.