 At trial , it emerged that Capper had been kidnapped for " insubstantial , even trivial " reasons : Jean Powell claimed that Capper had tried to persuade her to sleep with a man for money ; McNeilly and Dudson had contracted pubic lice which they believed were from a bed that Capper had also used ; and McNeilly believed that she had taken a pink duffle coat that belonged to her . In November 1992 , when Dudson had contracted pubic lice and had his pubic hair shaved , McNeilly told him she thought that he had caught them from Capper . Dudson believed otherwise , and said later : " I told Jean [ Powell ] I thought I got them from Bernie [ McNeilly ] . " On 7 December 1992 , Capper was lured to Jean Powell 's home , where Glyn Powell and Dudson were already waiting . She was grabbed as soon as she arrived and held down while Glyn Powell shaved her head and her eyebrows and then made her clean up the hair and place it in a bin . Then he placed a plastic bag over her head and walked round her while hitting her on the head . She was then kicked by Jean Powell and McNeilly as she lay curled up on the floor and both women took turns beating her with a three @-@ foot @-@ long wooden instrument and a belt . She was then taken to the bathroom and forced to shave off her own pubic hair as " ritual humiliation in revenge for having caused , as they claimed , Dudson and McNeilly themselves to be shaved . " Afterwards Jean Powell locked her in a cupboard overnight . The following morning she was taken upstairs and locked in another cupboard . On 8 December she was transferred to McNeilly 's house because of concern that Powell and McNeilly 's six children were disturbed by Capper 's crying . There she was tied spreadeagle to an upturned bed with electrical flex in a downstairs back room . 
