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Goth Murder


03/13/2008
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(guardian.co.uk) A student was beaten to death by a drunken gang in a town park because she and her boyfriend were dressed as goths, a court heard yesterday. Sophie Lancaster, who was 20, died after she vainly tried to protect her boyfriend 21-year-old Robert Maltby from kicks and punches, a jury at Preston crown court was told.

The couple were targeted in Bacup, Lancashire, by five teenagers who behaved "like a pack of wild animals", Michael Shorrock QC told the court in his opening speech. The killers celebrated their attack on the goths - or "moshers" - by telling friends afterwards that they had "done summat good", and claiming: "There's two moshers nearly dead up Bacup park - you wanna see them -they're a right mess."

Police who arrived at the scene could not tell whether the young woman was male or female because of her horrendous injuries. Shorrock told the hearing: "Sophie and Robert were singled out not for anything they had said or done but because they looked and dressed differently. Kicks and stamps on their heads and body followed as the gang goaded each other on." - more on this story

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