THEYRE still there. As The Independent reported, the already ramshackle house had become a den of drugs, parties, and sex. 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. At this point, something happened to Suzannes arm, Im not sure exactly what but it hung limp by her side. Jean was 10 years Cappers senior, a 26-year-old living with three children in a dilapidated home not far from John Cappers house. Mums with kids cross over the road when they have to walk past the place because they know a pair of real wrong 'uns live there. Her body was covered in cigarette burns. Bernadette McNeilly (pictured) was caged for the sick 1992 murder of Suzanne Capper Credit: PA:Press Association. They were dealing drugs, handling stolen car parts, rows with neighbours had led to fights, and on one occasion they set fire to a neighbours washing. She stayed in touch. In the short walk to 6 Bewley Walk, where Suzanne lived with her step-father, you can see a different Moston being created. In another instance, McNeilly, Dudson, and Jean and Glyn Powell all contracted pubic lice. Now, there are other characters and it can become confusing. When we confronted her about it she actually threatened to burn our house down.. 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! Hardy was a serial killer who had already murdered two other teenage girls in Moston by that point, Wanda Skala and Janet Stewart. Something went wrong, please try again later. PA Images/Getty ImagesJean Powell was one of the three people in the group given a life sentence for her role in Suzanne Cappers death. An ex-con who spent her stretch at HMP Foston Hall in Derby and HMP Styal said: All I can say is no human being should have to breathe the same air as that animal. Anthony Dudson, then aged 16, was also convicted of murder and ordered to spend a minimum of 16 years behind bars before he could apply for parole. The house is known as Monster Mansion due to Matthews and McNeilly residing there.". But prison chiefs reckon she has been rehabilitated and have freed her after 21 years. Bernadette McNeilly. Opposite, the houses theres a rusting childrens play area and on the corner of Joan Street and Attleboro Road theres a boarded up property. In this suburb on the north eastern edge of Manchester, Suzanne Cappers death never came to symbolise a moral panic about the breakdown of society. Matthews, 44, is engaged to handyman Paul Saunders, despite hearing of his child sex abuse past. Suzanne was an incredibly brave young girl. PA Images/Getty ImagesSuzanne Capper had asked to move in with her mother, but her mother needed a few weeks to prepare her new flat. Clifford Pook and Jeffrey Leigh pleaded guilty to false imprisonment and were given 15 year and 12 year sentences respectively. It is believed that she may have had an affair with Rose West, with whom she was sharing a prison wing with, along with Myra Hindley. Between this case, and the murder of James Bulger that had happened within the same timeframe, the release of movies were pushed back- includingNatural Born KillersandReservoir Dogs, for a few months in the UK. The pair are said to have become friends after meeting up at Foston Hall prison in Derbyshire. She went on to have an affair with the prison governor Mike Martin, who resigned his post before disciplinary action could be taken. Bottom: Anthony Dudson, Jean Powell, Jeffrey Leigh. They said theyll come over to pick me up. 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For seven days they beat and tortured her until eventually they drove her to an area of secluded scrubland on the outskirts of Stockport, doused her in petrol and burnt her alive. Karen Matthews living in same building as Chucky killer best pal Bernadette McNeilly The Sun. She would do anything to make her jail life better and was in lots of sexual relationships with women and men in jail. But she has now been granted parole after a senior prison officers report called her a model prisoner and full of remorse. Victim Suzanne was stripped, plunged into a bath of disinfectant and forced to listen to recordings of McNeilly imitating Chucky, the demonic doll from horror film Child's Play. Often babysitting Jeans young children for free, Capper would spend the night at their home and skipping school the next morning. Even John, Suzannes stepfather, wanted Suzanne to stop visiting 97 Langworthy. View the profiles of people named Bernadette Mcneilly. Mrs Dunbar still had the trial to face and struggled to cope with the media frenzy that surrounded it. The end of the song says no pleasewere friends till the end, remember? McNeilly one of the four won a cut in her jail term at the High Court in London today. Suzanne told neighbours that she had been tied up by Jean and held for four days but no one believed her. McNeilly and Matthews became friends when they were banged up together at Foston Hall prison in Derbyshire and kept in touch when Matthews was freed from her eight-year sentence in 2012. Thus are the prudent penalised while the negligent are nurtured. The city has changed over the last two decades but in some districts improvement plods along at a slower pace. 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. The amphetamines would have not allowed her to sleep. 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? Since then Mrs Dunbar has not only had to find the strength to come to terms with what happened but she has also had to fight relentlessly with the parole board to keep the killers in prison. Officers spoke to both Matthews, 44, and her lover Paul Saunders, 57, but made no arrests before leaving. I said something like been fighting over boys then? but she just shrugged her shoulders. News Group Newspapers Limited in England No. Suzanne Cappers torturers pried out two of her front teeth so that her body would be more difficult to identify they had decided to kill her. The cops asked a few neighbours if theyve heard any shouting or noises but then were quickly on their way. Bernadette McNeilly is serving. 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. For a brief moment it seemed that everyone, from newspapers to political parties, were seeking to exploit the publics revulsion over the two murders. Born in the Greater Manchester region of England in 1976, Suzanne Jane Capper was described by her mother as very forgiving.. Jean Powell's friend Bernadette McNeilly lived a few houses down from hers and had three children. There was no party. Much like the Liverpool 38 who saw two boys beating a toddler but did nothing, there is a feeling that this could all have been avoided if just one person had intervened. She was consistently let down by those around her, even her parents. When Suzanne was 14 years old her parents divorced. Her release will devastate Suzannes family. 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. View our online Press Pack. 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. She has asked the killer - who was part of a gang that tortured . She was taking her money, just letting her keep 5 a week, while we thought she was in school. Powell, along with her close friend Bernadette McNeilly, a woman with three children who also lived with Powell, began bullying Capper into doing their bidding. 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. Its a rave song with excerpts from Childs Play in it.. 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. Glyn Powell, who was 29 at the time of the murder, Jean Powell (now Gillespie), then 26, Bernadette McNeilly, 24, and Anthony Dudson, 17, were all found guilty of murder. Matthews is still engaged to handyman Saunders despite being told of his wicked child sex abuse past. They didnt say anything else and they didnt tell me what injuries she had. She was initially taken to Stepping Hill hospital before being transferred to Withington Hospitals Burns Unit. Epub 2012 Aug 29. Then there is Clifford Pook/Hayes, who is Jean Powells 17 year old brother, and Jeffrey Leigh, a 26 year man who had previously actually assaulted and stolen from his 86 year old grandmother, a truly upstanding citizen. McNeilly was paroled in 2015 after having her 25-year sentence cut by one year. 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. Jean was a 26 year old mother of 3 living in 97 Langworthy Rd, Manchester, Moston, which is about a 7 minute walk to Suzannes house. Things would escalate on December 7th. The council were putting together a second Olympic bid and were completing a number of other large scale projects intending to put Manchester on map. I couldnt recognise her.. Moston Brook High School, the school Suzanne should have been attending, had a small red plaque on one of the walls showing that it had been built on the site where Manchester United Football Club was first established in 1878 by a group of local railway yard workers. She had a sister named Michelle and a brother, also named John. It does happen. It was only when officers entered the two address on Langworthy Road that they knew it was all true. Suzanne was dumped in a wood, doused in petrol and set alight. Karen is still determined to get wed and wants her friend alongside her. Garnacho has outlined which players he is closest to and described one Manchester United star as like a "dad" to him after opening up about his breakthrough season. Just like her friend Jean, Bernadette was a 23-year-old drug addict who had three kids and lived a few doors away. 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. The source added: They will pretend things are over until the dust settles but really just carry on seeing each other and the wedding is still very much on.. 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. Thats what she did in the end, she survived her ordeal long enough to name every single one of them.". 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. After being spotted by a passing motorist she was taken to hospital, where she survived for four days long enough to name her attackers and earn McNeilly and three of her five sidekicks life sentences. Bernadette took so many different drugs that she began referring to herself as Chucky, the doll from movie franchise Childs Play. Matthews was released after serving just half her sentence for kidnapping Shannon in a bid to grab 50,000 in reward cash. Suzanne Cappers Home Life Also living at 97 Langworthy Road was Bernadette McNeilly, a 24 year old, who was also a mother of 3. She spent 21 years behind bars for setting fire to 16-year-old Suzanne Capper in 1992. Your support is critical for Phoenix Childrens Hospital to offer expert, family-centered care. The next day she was moved to another house in the street and the appalling physical . We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. The Disturbing Story Of Suzanne Capper, The British Teen Who Was Tortured To Death By 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. Jean decided that they only possible way that they could have gotten it was from Suzanne, and they bed she sometimes slept in..despite the fact that that group were all regularly having sex with each other. Join Facebook to connect with Bernadette Mcneilly and others you may know. The bedframe to which Suzanne Capper was bound for five days while her supposed friends tortured her. Their bullying of Suzanne also began to escalate into outright violence. They also injected her with amphetamines, and later when this comes up in court the perpetrator says she did this to save Suzanne from being injected with meth. They have had reports of some kind of disturbance.. Suzanne Capper was born in England, in 1976. While behind bars at HMP Durham, McNeilly is said to have enjoyed a romance with Moors murderer Myra Hindley. Jean Powell, 26, Glyn Powell, 29, and Bernadette McNeilly, 24, were jailed for life for murder. 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 There are poor areas here where more money needs to be invested but we must remember that it wasnt Moston that made these criminals. It shut in the summer of 2000 and built in its place a business park, Central Park, that is home to Greater Manchester Police and various university buildings. In this group was a 16-year-old boy called Anthony Dudson and Jeans ex-husband Glyn Powell, 28. Glyn Powell was the 29-year-old ex-husband of Jean Powell. Last night ex-prisoners who served time with McNeilly called her release a shocking blunder and dubbed her dangerous and manipulative. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. Matthews fell for Saunders jailed in 2010 for abusing a teenage girl when he carried out work at her flat. If it is not countered, then we will continue a decline towards lawlessness and degeneracy., In a speech which brought Tony Blair to the attention of the public, the then Shadow Home Secretary attempted to align himself and New Labour with the indignant moralising of the tabloid press by describing the crimes as hammer blows against the sleeping conscience of the country. John Major, less capable at formulating emotive sound-bites, saidwe must condemn a little more, and understand a little less., The case never received the proper public attention it should have, said Mr Stringer. As a parent myself I would find what Suzannes mother did very hard to live with.Suzanne apparently told a neighbor that Jean had held her for 4 days and beat her up, but from what I read, nobody believed her. In November 1992, just a few weeks before her death, Suzanne turned up at the day centre having been beaten up by Jean. Suzanne, from Moston, and who had family in Middleton, was held captive then beaten, injected with drugs and brutally tortured over seven days. McNeilly was found guilty of murder at Manchester crown court in November 1993 and ordered to serve a minimum of 25 years behind bars. Matthews, dubbed Britain's worst mum for staging her daughter Shannon's disappearance, is best pals with evil Bernadette McNeilly. When we confronted her about it, she actually threatened to burn our house down.. There were social services who never noticed all the drug paraphernalia at number 97. Bernadette was given a new identity. Before she was put into an induced coma she told police officers what had happened to her and named all her attackers. She never knew her biological father as he had walked out before Suzanne had been born, and her mother Elizabeth Dunbar had married. Suzanne was very forgiving, said Mrs Dunbar. We found out that Jean had taken Suzanne out of school and was making her work as a cleaner at the CIS building in town, said Mrs Dunbar. Bernadette McNeilly, Anthony Dudson, Jeffrey Leigh, and Clifford Hayes. I thought it was a prank at first. Matthews - dubbed Britain's worst mum - lives in the same block as Bernadette McNeilly, who spent 21 years in prison for the sadistic murder of 16-year-old Suzanne Capper. There was the failure of teachers from Suzannes school, Moston Brook High School, to act in the face of her extraordinary level of truanting. Both women dealt drugs and had a very bad relationship with their neighbors, once setting a neighbors washing on fire. She told me it was some guy murdered that girl and that she was in the wrong place at the wrong time so she is not sorry for what she did. Mrs Dunbar also criticised the decisions of the parole board. The pair now live close to each other, and McNeilly who now uses a different surname works nearby in a shop. 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. 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. Wicked Matthews allowed police and the community in Dewsbury to search for Shannon, nine, for 24 days in 2008 when all the time she was being held in a flat owned by the uncle of her then lover. Officers spoke to both Matthews, 44, and her lover Paul Saunders, 57, but made no arrests before leaving. Confidentials Manchester. Capper , however, allegedly told neighbors that Jean Powell had tied her up and held her for four days. 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. This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. Once McNeilly has completed the now-reduced sentence, she would be freed only if she can convince a parole board that she no longer poses a danger to the public. An underclass is being created today which is a grave threat to Britain's future. Alejandro Garnacho names three Manchester United stars who helped him settle into senior squad. PA Images/Getty ImagesSuzanne Cappers murderers Top: Glyn Powell, Bernadette McNeilly, Clifford Pook. But she will only have justice if those murderers remain in prison., The six children who were still living in the home heard her cries. 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. She has been given a new name and a makeover and is living in a secret location in north-west England. She was given a bath in concentrated disinfectants, burning her skin. The real trouble began, however, when a neighbor named Bernadette McNeilly moved in. Karen Matthews was dubbed Britains worst mum for staging daughter Shannons disappearance. There was another version of this story that Suzanne had only met Jean when Clifford introduced them. 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. I know this not to be true. I cant imagine, youre exhausted, being beaten, starved, youre strapped down and this song is playing constantly in your ear. When Bernadette would enter the room, she would repeat the words, Im Chucky, wanna play?, and soon the words alone were enough to send Suzanne screaming. Suzanne CapperFor Elizabeth Dunbar, Suzannes mother, it is the old Moston and the inescapable knowledge of what happened to her daughter that remains indelibly etched on her memory. Suzanne still continued to frequent the house, sometimes staying over. 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. My office is in a sixth form college, not far from Langworthy Road, and Im right next to a new swimming pool, to my left is a new youth facility (The Factory Youth Zone), theres new housing off Moston Lane, theres been investments by Manchester College into the sixth form campus which includes the refurbishment of the old swimming baths and the Farmyard Pub. 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. She has also become good friends with paedophile Saunders, 57. It just shows that birds of a feather really do flock together.. Your support is critical for us to offer expert, family-centered care. Jean would get Suzanne to skip school and go to work with her as a cleaner, and would then take Suzannes full pay packet, leaving her with only 5GBP a week. Suzannes family all knew how dangerous Jean and Bernadette were together and warned her to stay away. She stayed in touch with Matthews and moved to the same area when she was freed. She would also live between her mothers house, her stepfathers, and couch surfing with friends. Loading her into the trunk of a car that Leigh stole, they drove Capper 13 miles to a wooded area near Stockport. Thats what she did in the end, she survived her ordeal long enough to name every single one of them. Murderer McNeilly, 51, was freed in 2015 after 21 years behind bars for subjecting 16-year-old Suzanne Capper to a shocking ordeal in one of Britain's most sadistic murders. Play an important role in providing hope, healing and care for our patients. It was the first of several petty spats that eventually led to Suzanne Cappers horrible death. Michelle was fairly close with Suzanne from what I can gather in my research. In Moston the sense of guilt over what happened has never really shifted. Walking through the Langworthy Road estate, built to house workers of Manchesters long gone cotton empire, it seems impossible that this humdrum street was the setting for one of the worst crimes of the early 90s. She was freed after serving just half her sentence for kidnapping Shannon in a bid to grab 50,000 in reward cash. And the judge said, that Bernadette was filled with remorse. Jean Powellis nowJean Gillespieafter her divorce finalised while in prison. Matthews fell for 57-year-old Saunders jailed for abusing a teenage girl - when he came to carry out work at her property. Shed been found 15 miles from Moston on Compstall Road in Romiley by three men on their way to work. But she was also a girl who would try to sort out her problems on her own. We also may change the frequency you receive our emails from us in order to keep you up to date and give you the best relevant information possible. The pair are said to have become friends after meeting up at Foston Hall prison in Derbyshire. They said Suzanne was hurt and in hospital and that I should stay where I am. McNeilly,. One example is that when she was in the same prison wing as Rose West and Myra Hindley she had an affair with a married prison warden." Mrs Dunbar also criticised the decisions of the parole board. . Sign up for our daily newsletter to get the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox. The Sun website is regulated by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), Our journalists strive for accuracy but on occasion we make mistakes. The Daily Star Sunday has been told that while behind bars at HMP Durham, McNeilly enjoyed a romance with Moors murderer Myra Hindley. Waste from the factory collected along Moston Brook to form steep white hills that remained until the early 80s. I was ten years old when this all happened, the same age as Venables and Thompson. Mrs Dunbar has no idea if they have restrictions on where they can go in Manchester and says that if she ever bumped into them shes scared of what she would do to them. I turned round and looked and saw Suzanne in flames. Bernadette then locked Suzanne in a cupboard for the night. She initially dumped him over his past but has now taken him back. Pook was released in 2001 and Leigh in 1998. I went down to have a look and the houses are still standing. Clifford was Jeans younger brother and he would ultimately go on to torture Suzanne. It is believed that Jean once spent two hours alone beating Suzanne. But prison chiefs reckon she has been rehabilitated and have freed her after 21 years. Dudson was given a minimum term of 18 years. I saw a flash, Jean Powell said during her trial. 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