Appeal over goth murder sentence
- added June 13, 2008
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- MissAmanda
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Sophie Lancaster, 20, was kicked and stamped to death by Brendan Harris, 15, and Ryan Herbert, 16, in Stubbylee Park in Bacup, Lancashire, last summer.
The pair turned on her as she tried to get them and three other youths to stop attacking her boyfriend, Robert Maltby.
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What made this news stand out to me was what the judge said to the boys who killed her in court.
"This was a terrible case which has shocked and outraged all who have heard about it. At least wild animals, when they hunt in packs, have a legitimate reason for so doing, to obtain food. You have none and your behaviour on that night degrades humanity itself."
He described the Goth community as "perfectly peaceful law-abiding people who pose no threat to anybody" and added: "This was a hate crime against these completely harmless people targeted because their appearance was different to yours."
Good for you, judge, for saying those things. It's true.
The pair turned on her as she tried to get them and three other youths to stop attacking her boyfriend, Robert Maltby.
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What made this news stand out to me was what the judge said to the boys who killed her in court.
"This was a terrible case which has shocked and outraged all who have heard about it. At least wild animals, when they hunt in packs, have a legitimate reason for so doing, to obtain food. You have none and your behaviour on that night degrades humanity itself."
He described the Goth community as "perfectly peaceful law-abiding people who pose no threat to anybody" and added: "This was a hate crime against these completely harmless people targeted because their appearance was different to yours."
Good for you, judge, for saying those things. It's true.
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- MissAmanda
- 2 months ago
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They say don't judge a book by it's cover, but they aren't books...
look at the state of them.
You'd wonder how people like that come to be...-
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- Owwmykneecap
- 2 months ago
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personally I think goth chicks can be kinda sexy -
anyway you could say the same about the kids that still think shell suits are cool! -
I hate this, they're just young people trying things out, and killing them and being so dang judge mentle's not going to end how they act ith thier bleak out look on life is it?
Besides, lots of my friends and a relitive of mine are goths and they're really the freindlyest people you'll meet out of the lot I know. -
Fry their asses.
Make an example of them!-
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- Catamount1980
- 2 months ago
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There is no legitimacy for murder. Not even for obtaining that which you seek, Judge.
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lethal injection!
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- cassanova_0006
- 2 months ago
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What a crime. Sophie's parents, boyfriend & friends must be heartbroken & devastated.
How can people be so cold and so quick to kill?-
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- natureyogini
- 2 months ago
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