The mum who lost her daughter for simply being different
manchestereveningnews.co.ukSylvia Lancaster lost her daughter simply because she was different. Her child Sophie merely stood out from the crowd, with black and red dreadlocked hair and 'goth'-like clothing.
But it was the very way that she looked that led her to be brutally murdered when innocently walking home with her boyfriend in Bacup in 2007.
She had become the target of a horrendous mob attack by a gang - for just being herself. The 20-year-old was kicked to death for being a goth in Stubbylee Park.
It was a heinous crime that shook the nation, but spurred on her mother Sylvia to use her grief as passion to strive for change. READ MORESophie Lancaster's mum Sylvia has died weeks after one of her daughter's killers was freed It was as she sat beside her daughter in hospital, gazing on her relying on a life support machine before it was turned off two weeks after the attack, that Sylvia decided she wanted to make a difference.
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