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06-14-2008, 12:27 PM
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Sophie Lancaster Court Case - Appeal News.
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Appeal over Goth murder sentence
Two teenage boys jailed for life for the murder of a woman who was killed for dressing as a Goth have lodged an appeal against their sentences.
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.
Harris was sentenced to a minimum of 18 years and Herbert to 16 years.
Harris had denied murder, but was convicted in March, while Herbert pleaded guilty before the trial started.
The three youths who pleaded guilty to grievous bodily harm with intent on Mr Maltby have also appealed against their sentences.
Harris was sentenced to a minimum of 18 years and Herbert to 16 years
Brothers Joseph, 17, and Danny Hulme, 16, both of Landgate, Whitworth, near Bacup were sentenced to five years and 10 months each, while Daniel Mallett, 17, of Rockcliffe Drive, Bacup, was sentenced to four years and four months.
The cases will now go before a High Court judge to decide if there is a basis for the appeal.
On passing sentence at Preston Crown Court in April, Judge Anthony Russell QC described the attack last August as "feral thuggery" which raised serious questions about the "sort of society which exists in this country".
He told the youths: "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."
Goths emerged as a youth subculture in the early 1980s - although initially used to describe a form of music, it has evolved to encompass literature, art and fashion, with its exponents typically dressing in dark clothing.
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Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/h...re/7452815.stm
As you can imagine, Sophie's mother isn't exactly thrilled by this news, I recall reading in the Sun today is showed the killers for the kind of people they really were and their filing for an appeal to reduce their sentences showed that they must think that they had done nothing wrong.
Hopefully it'll fail and the murderers will be in their 30s before they come out of prison at the very least.
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06-14-2008, 02:14 PM
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I doubt they will get out. The S.O.P.H.I.E. events are getting quite a large number of people attending..
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06-14-2008, 10:21 PM
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I think it says something that the kids are appealing (though that might be the parents, in which case it says something about the parents). The nerve...
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06-15-2008, 03:33 AM
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They won't get out. And don't believe ANYTHING you read in The Sun.
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06-15-2008, 12:54 PM
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It's the only paper they have at work I'm afraid! They buy the Daily Star too, but I am loathe to call that a newspaper.
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06-15-2008, 01:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Edward Strange
It's the only paper they have at work I'm afraid! They buy the Daily Star too, but I am loathe to call that a newspaper.
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Haha, the Daily Star. My dad reads that. I keep trying to tell him that celebrity gossip is not news, but alas, no success so far. 
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