Overview
- In December 1992, 16-year-old Suzanne Capper was abducted in Greater Manchester, tortured for days, set alight near Stockport and died from her injuries on December 18.
- She survived long enough to identify her attackers to police, providing names and the address where she had been held.
- Four defendants — Jean Powell (now Gillespie), Bernadette McNeilly, Glyn Powell and Anthony Dudson — were convicted of murder after a November 1993 trial, while Clifford Pook and Jeffrey Leigh admitted false imprisonment.
- Court accounts detailed repeated beatings, amphetamine injections, cigarette burns, the shaving of her head and pubic hair, the extraction of two teeth and a disinfectant scrubbing that removed skin.
- All four murderers were later released on perpetual life licences — Dudson in 2013, McNeilly in 2015, Gillespie in 2017 and Glyn Powell in May 2023 — and remain subject to recall if they breach conditions.