A killer whose gang murdered a teenage girl by dousing her in petrol and burning her in a forest will soon be freed from prison. Glyn Powell, 58, was accompanied by another three people when he kidnapped and tortured Suzanne Capper before taking her to a forest and burning her in 1992.
But 31 years later the parole board has now directed that Powell should be released. Suzanne, 16, from Moston in Manchester, was injected with drugs before being subjected to brutal torture for a whole week at a house in the city. She was then driven to woods in nearby Stockport where she was burned alive, but she survived long enough to name her killers which eventually saw them jailed.
After a trial in November 1993 Powell, then 29, was jailed for life with a minimum of 25 years for the murder of Suzanne. Also jailed for murder were accomplices Jean Powell (now Gillespie), Bernadette McNeilly, and Anthony Dudson. Dudson was just 16 at the time.
