 The murder of Suzanne Capper was committed in Greater Manchester , England in December 1992 . Sixteen @-@ year @-@ old Suzanne Jane Capper died in Withington Hospital on 18 December 1992 , from multiple organ failure arising from eighty percent burns after she was deliberately set on fire on 14 December . Before her death , Capper related that she had previously been kidnapped and kept prisoner for seven days at a house in Moston , Manchester , where she was beaten and tortured . She was taken from the house by car , driven into the countryside and forced out of the car virtually naked into a wood at Werneth Low where petrol was poured over her and she was set alight . The torture and murder arose from the " avenging [ of ] trivial grievances : a sexual insult , infection with pubic lice and the loss of a pink duffle coat . " 
