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. Bernadette McNeilly (pictured) was caged for the sick 1992 murder of Suzanne Capper Credit: PA:Press Association. Matthews is still engaged to handyman Saunders despite being told of his wicked child sex abuse past. Capper , however, allegedly told neighbors that Jean Powell had tied her up and held her for four days. 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Keep up with the latest news from our medical experts and support teams. After a number of failed attempts to ignite her, Glyn applied a lighter he had borrowed from Clifford directly to Suzannes naked back. This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. Last night ex-prisoners who served time with McNeilly called her release a shocking blunder and dubbed her dangerous and manipulative. "The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited. McNeilly was found guilty of murder at Manchester crown court in November 1993 and ordered to serve a minimum of 25 years behind bars. 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. Back in 1992 Graham Stringer was the leader of Manchester City Council and a man with huge ambitions for the city. For other inquiries, Contact Us. While behind bars at HMP Durham, McNeilly is said to have enjoyed a romance with Moors murderer Myra Hindley. 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. Still, Suzanne Cappers story of a quiet, friendless girl who clung desperately to the few connections she had managed to make, no matter how violently and terribly they treated her, is one of the most sadistic accounts of murder in British history. 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. 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. I said something like been fighting over boys then? but she just shrugged her shoulders. 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. 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. She may have portrayed herself as the model prisoner but I believe she will never control that demon inside her and that makes her a very dangerous woman.. 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. Anne E Tebo, Troy Jaskowski, K Wayne Davis, April Whiting, Bronte Clifford, Andrew Zeft, Bernadette McNally, Harry R Hill, John Bohnsack, Sampath Prahalad, Quantification of the familial contribution to juvenile idiopathic arthritis. A boy she liked was going to be there, they told her. They all had to shave their genitals and were annoyed by it. Karen is still determined to get wed and wants her friend alongside her. Suzanne came to know Jean through a chance encounter with a boy the same age as her, Clifford Pook. Epub 2008 May 28. 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. Semi-naked and barely able to stand, Suzanne was pushed by Bernadette down an embankment in the woods and doused in petrol. The bedframe to which Suzanne Capper was bound for five days while her supposed friends tortured her. 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. Jean later claimed in a police interview that she assaulted her that day because she believed Suzanne had encouraged her to have sex with one of her friends. With no children to disturb they tied her to an upturned bed and were free to do as they pleased. Lets hope the best man doesnt have a record as well. Bernadette McNeilly blamed Capper. A woman who tortured a teenage girl then helped set her on fire was today described in court as a 'model prisoner' as a judge cut her jail sentence by 12 months. 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. The sick couple are said to have had a series of nasty rows recently, with Matthews threatening to call the cops. Wayne Couzens and David Fuller 'become friends behind bars' Jean Powell's friend Bernadette McNeilly lived a few houses down from hers and had three children. 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. Bernadette then locked Suzanne in a cupboard for the night. 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. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. At this point, something happened to Suzannes arm, Im not sure exactly what but it hung limp by her side. She came to where I worked and I noticed a bruise on her face. Wanna play?. Matthews, 44, is engaged to handyman Paul Saunders, despite hearing of his child sex abuse past. She was described as a neighbour from hell and cold as ice . She started to skip school, and her teachers said her behaviour was erratic. Loading her into the trunk of a car that Leigh stole, they drove Capper 13 miles to a wooded area near Stockport. When Suzanne was 14 years old her parents divorced. They didnt hear Suzannes screams. Then Glyn Powell turned round to look at us in the public gallery and just said Revenge.. Petty grudges settled by torture spree then murder: Suzanne Capper's Bottom: Anthony Dudson, Jean Powell, Jeffrey Leigh. From the 18thSuzanne will have peace.. The real trouble began, however, when a neighbor named Bernadette McNeilly moved in. Bernadette took so many different drugs that she began referring to herself as Chucky, the doll from movie franchise Childs Play. She was also "good friends" with Gloucester House of Horrors monster Rose West. PA Images/Getty ImagesThe bedframe to which Suzanne Capper was bound for five days while her supposed friends tortured her. McNeilly, 52, was freed in 2015 after serving her sentence for the horrific murder of Suzanne. Bernadette McNeilly is serving a life sentence for the murder of 16-year-old Suzanne Capper in north Manchester in December 1992. The four who drove Suzanne to Romiley Jean Powell (now Jean Gillespie), Bernadette McNeilly, Glyn Powell, and Anthony Dudson were all found guilty of murder. Suzanne Capper was only 16 when she died, but while the circumstances surrounding her death were horrific, her murder was largely overshadowed in the press by the murder of two-year-old James Bulger two months later. None of them believed her. Leigh was released from prison in 1998, Pook in 2001, and Anthony Dudson in 2013. She would do anything to make her jail life better and was in lots of sexual relationships with women and men in jail. Michelle moved out, saying that she didnt like Jeans evil new friends. And he is a regular visitor to the address staying with Matthews for about half of the week. Alejandro Garnacho names three Manchester United stars who helped him settle into senior squad. Matthews is still engaged to handyman Saunders despite being told of his wicked child sex abuse past. Karen Matthews living in same building as Chucky killer best pal Bernadette McNeilly The Sun. McNeilly was paroled in 2015 after having her 25-year sentence cut by one year. There was a discourse at the time that blamed the poor for this terrible crime and I was never comfortable with that.. Growing up, she and her sister Michelle never knew their biological father. Cops were called to the home after receiving reports of a disturbance at the property. In only a short time, Capper was spending more time with Jean and her friends than anyone else her family largely unaware of the true horrors going on behind the scenes. KAREN Matthews is living in the building as her convicted killer best pal as locals call the place 'Monster Mansion'. 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. Often babysitting Jeans young children for free, Capper would spend the night at their home and skipping school the next morning. Child's Play: The Real Murder Inspired by Chucky - Screen Rant I was ten years old when this all happened, the same age as Venables and Thompson. She was burned with cigarettes, one burn mark right between her eyes. That night, they locked her in a cupboard. I was scared.. Something went wrong, please try again later. 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. 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. The cops asked a few neighbours if theyve heard any shouting or noises but then were quickly on their way. 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. In 1976, the year Suzanne was born, the mutilated body of a 17-year-old girl called Sharon Mosoph was found in the Rochdale canal which runs parallel to Moston Brook. But prison chiefs reckon she has been rehabilitated and have freed her after 21 years. Suzanne was meant to move in on Christmas Eve. It was known as a place to get drugs, and for stolen cars and their parts to change hands. It was here that the worst of the torture took place. There was the failure of teachers from Suzannes school, Moston Brook High School, to act in the face of her extraordinary level of truanting. 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. Karen Matthews was dubbed Britains worst mum for staging daughter Shannons disappearance. Karen Matthews asks twisted 'Chucky' killer who murdered teen to be Im not sure what I was expecting, I think I was hoping they had suffered the same fate as 25 Cromwell Street.. She wants people to feel sorry for her but she is dangerous. More can be done but were heading in the right direction.. The amphetamines would have not allowed her to sleep. Her release will devastate Suzannes family. The prefix Moss refers to the peat bog the district was built upon and the clay bedrock once provided the raw materials for a brickworks beside the brook. 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. She was stripped, plunged into a bath of disinfectant and scrubbed with a stiff brush before being dumped in a wood, doused in petrol and set on fire. In the short walk to 6 Bewley Walk, where Suzanne lived with her step-father, you can see a different Moston being created. Phoenix, AZ 85016 Get Driving Directions + Education & Training + Academic and Professional Affiliations + Research & Publications Each received concurrent 20-year terms for conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm, as did Glyn . 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. Then we have Anthony Dudson, who is Bernadette McNeillys 16 year old boyfriend. The Horrifying Murder of 16-Year-Old Suzanne Capper - Medium KILLER: Bernadette McNeilly tortured 16-year-old Suzanne Capper before murdering her in 1992 [PA] Twisted Bernadette McNeilly, 55, subjected 16-year-old Suzanne Capper to a shocking ordeal in one of Britain's most sadistic murders. As always you can unsubscribe at any time. Its a rave song with excerpts from Childs Play in it.. They injected themselves and Suzanne with amphetamines and lost themselves in sadism and depravity. 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, Cappers mother later said. 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. I saw a flash, Jean Powell said during her trial. I believe that she may have been sexually assaulted but this is not proven from what I could found. Suzanne told neighbours that she had been tied up by Jean and held for four days but no one believed her. McNeilly stayed in touch with Matthews during her final years in prison and moved to the same town when she was freed. Suzanne Capper had asked to move in with her mother, but her mother needed a few weeks to prepare her new flat. Suzannes family all knew how dangerous Jean and Bernadette were together and warned her to stay away. J Clin Rheumatology 2009 Jun;15(4):161-4 Andrew Zeft, Roger Hollister, Bonnie LaFleur, Prahalad Sampath, Jennifer Soep, Bernadette McNally, Gary Kunkel, Margaret Schlesinger, John Bohnsack, Elevated serum levels of soluble CD154 in children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis. What happened in these houses 20 years ago is described by Mr Stringer as one of the most extreme crimes committed in this country since the War. Facebook gives people. Play an important role in providing hope, healing and care for our patients. She never knew her biological father as he had walked out before Suzanne had been born, and her mother Elizabeth Dunbar had married. Jean later claimed that even she was disturbed by the behaviour Bernadette displayed. Your support is critical for Phoenix Childrens Hospital to offer expert, family-centered care. Officers spoke to both Matthews, 44, and her lover Paul Saunders, 57, but made no arrests before leaving. 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. Capper and Michelle alternated between staying with their mother, their step-father, family friends, or in the care of local authorities. Bernadette McNeilly had her sentence reduced because the judge said she was a model prisoner and had an exceptional record. 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. The six children who were still living in the home heard her cries. We and our partners use cookies on this site to improve our service, perform analytics, personalize advertising, measure advertising performance, and remember website preferences. Matthews was released after serving just half her sentence for kidnapping Shannon in a bid to grab 50,000 in reward cash. 1919 E. Thomas Rd. She was given a bath in concentrated disinfectants, burning her skin. The first she knew something had happened was when she got a call from CID while at work. Mr Stringer said: I cant understand the decisions of the parole board. Bernadette McNeilly was Jean Powell's 24-year-old. McNeillys crimes were some of the most sadistic ever investigated by cops. The city has changed over the last two decades but in some districts improvement plods along at a slower pace. Bernadette McNally, MS, PA-C Specialty Allergy & Immunology Areas of Expertise Oral Food Challenges Oral Drug Challenges Phone Number 602-933-4063 Locations Phoenix Children's Hospital - Thomas Campus 1919 E. Thomas Rd. With the last of her strength, she pulled herself to the nearest roadway, where she was spotted by the driver of a passing vehicle. 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. Dudson was given a minimum term of 18 years. Jeffrey Leigh, aged 27, was jailed for twelve years for false imprisonment. When we confronted her about it she actually threatened to burn our house down.. I went to the sentencing though and I can still remember clearly the moment the guilty verdicts were read. I believe that had she done something to help Suzanne, things might be very different today. The pair bonded after being banged up together at Foston Hall prison in Derbyshire - and even kept in touch when Matthews was freed during her eight-year sentence in 2012. They didnt say anything else and they didnt tell me what injuries she had. In the end, the Manchester Evening News reported, Jean Powell, Glyn Powell, and Bernadette McNeilly were given life sentences for Suzanne Cappers murder though McNeillys sentence was controversially reduced by 12 months after she proved to be a model prisoner, filled with remorse.. However, she has now taken him back. Suzanne was very forgiving, said Mrs Dunbar. Or, dive deep into the Amityville Horror house and its dark, haunted history. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. Then, on Dec. 7, 1992, Jean Powell and Bernadette McNeilly arrived at John Cappers house to invite Suzanne Capper to a party. The house was also frequented by Jeans 29-year-old ex-husband Glyn Powell, 26-year-old drug addict Jeffrey Leigh, and, of course, Clifford Pook. This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. Bernadette was given a new identity. By the time Suzanne reached adolescence the towns sense of vigilance had begun to fade and it was at this vulnerable age that Suzannes period of rootlessness began. 2023 Even after Hardy was caught and sentenced to life imprisonment people continued to fear him. Michelle was witness to this, sayingIf she had helped, Suzanne she might be alive today. By now Bernadette McNeilly, 23, and her three children had moved from 91 to 97 Langworthy Road to live with Jean, who had three children of her own. 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. Sampath Prahalad, Thomas B Martins, Anne E Tebo, April Whiting, Bronte Clifford, Andrew S Zeft, Bernadette McNally, John F Bohnsack, Harry R Hill, 1919 E. Thomas Rd., Phoenix, AZ 85016More Locations, (Physician Assistant) University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, Member - American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology; Member - American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology. 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. She was screaming I was numb. Most people here live decent lives and there is a real community. But she was also a girl who would try to sort out her problems on her own. Jean and Capper met shortly after. They left her for dead in the early hours of the morning, singing Burn, Baby, Burn all the way home. Clifford Pook and Jeffrey Leigh pleaded guilty to false imprisonment and were given 15 year and 12 year sentences respectively. McNeilly one of the four won a cut in her jail term at the High Court in London today. He proposed over Christmas but she dumped him weeks later over his sick past. During visits to the house, Clifford Pook and Jeffrey Leigh also partook in the girls torture. Bernadette McNeilly is a free woman Supertrooper/Shutterstock Thinking she was dead, The Independent reports that the group drove back home and sang "Burn, baby, burn." But Capper was alive and to report her so-called "friends." She ultimately died from "multi-organ failure" caused by her burn injuries. This is the end.. In Moston the sense of guilt over what happened has never really shifted. The pair now live close to each other, and McNeilly who now uses a different surname works nearby in a shop. 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. Also living at 97 Langworthy Road was Bernadette McNeilly, a 24 year old, who was also a mother of 3. 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. 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. Matthews, dubbed Britain's worst mum for staging her daughter Shannon's disappearance, is best pals with evil Bernadette McNeilly. Just like her friend Jean, Bernadette was a 23-year-old drug addict who had three kids and lived a few doors away. Her injuries were a lot more severe than the bruise on her face suggested. It was the first of several petty spats that eventually led to Suzanne Cappers horrible death. 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. She is a heartless mother.. 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. But then those in society who are genuinely out of work but who have savings, do not receive income support. Three of them Leigh, Dudson, and McNeilly shoved her through the bramble, and as she lay almost entirely naked on the ground, Bernadette McNeilly doused her in gasoline. |, Relaxation, Wellness & Spiritual Resources. Another prisoner told us: She is not sorry. Manchester United transfer news LIVE Man Utd vs Brighton early team news and takeover latest. 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. Gillespie, McNeilly, and Powell were sentenced to life . They have had reports of some kind of disturbance.. She stayed in touch. Something went wrong, please try again later. When I got to the hospital all I saw was this figure in bed, covered in bandages with just her face showing. So at this point you have the two mothers and 6 children in the house. 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. She was initially taken to Stepping Hill hospital before being transferred to Withington Hospitals Burns Unit. 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. View the profiles of people named Bernadette Mcneilly. During this time, McNeilly injected so many amphetamines that she began to call herself Chucky after the character from Childs Play. 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. 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. Thats what she did in the end, she survived her ordeal long enough to name every single one of them.. The halfway house from HELL: The bail hostel that some of UK's most United States, Profiling anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide antibodies in patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis. Suzanne Capper was tortured and murdered in a case that sickened BERNADETTE McNEILLY AKA BERNIE GARDNER - UK Paedos Exposed - Facebook It is believed that Jean once spent two hours alone beating Suzanne. 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. Suzanne Cappers murderers Top: Glyn Powell, Bernadette McNeilly, Clifford Pook. Sex with 'Chucky' killer; Prison boss resigns over his secret affair. There was the sheer number of people who were happy to take part in this crime. Because thats what the entire trial came down to, whether those two ten-year-old boys had the maturity to understand the difference between right and wrong, to understand that what they did to James was wrong. 2023 Phoenix Children's Hospital. 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. 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.