Corrie actress Mollie Gallagher has spoken out about the shocking hate crime scenes which left her character hospitalised and made her ‘want to cry.’ The storyline, which has gripped soap fans, sees Nina and her boyfriend Seb viciously attacked over their goth appearance and it turns out, the storyline was inspired by true events.
Sophie Lancaster was just 20 when she and her boyfriend Robert Maltby, both goths, were violently assaulted by a mob of thugs in their local park in 2007.
Sophie received severe head injuries during the attack which left her in a coma and she tragically died 13 days later. Her mother, Dr Sylvia Lancaster OBE, set up a foundation in her memory that has worked with the soap to accurately portray the tragic events.
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