 Capper had not died immediately as her murderers believed , and after they left she managed to scramble back up the embankment and stagger along the lane for approximately a quarter of a mile to <unk> Road before being found at 06 : 10 by Barry Sutcliffe and two of his colleagues on their way to work . She told them : " Over there , in the field . They burnt me , they put petrol on me . " They immediately took her to a nearby house and roused the residents , Michael and Margaret Coop , to call for an ambulance . Michael Coop said : " Both her hands appeared like ash . Her legs were just like raw meat and her feet appeared to be badly charred . I was struck by how polite the victim was . She was constantly thanking my wife for her assistance . " Margaret Coop said : " I instinctively went to put my arms around her but she pulled away because she could not bear to be touched . Her head was shaved and there were recent , not new , cuts to her head . Her face was almost featureless . Her hands were red raw and black at the fingertips . Her legs were red from top to bottom . She couldn 't bear anything near her legs . " Capper drank six glasses of water , but was unable to hold the glass herself because of the injuries to her hands . Margaret Coop said : " She looked like the victim of an attack in the Vietnam war . But I felt she would survive . I had this theory that , now she had got to somewhere she could be helped , she would live . " Capper was rushed to the hospital and was able to give the names of her six assailants and Powell 's address before falling into a coma . The extent of her burns was such that her mother and stepfather were unable to recognise her , and she was positively identified by a partial fingerprint from her thumb , the only part of her hands not severely burned . She died on 18 December 1992 , without regaining consciousness . 
