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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Josh Halliday North of England correspondent

Mother of woman killed for dressing as a goth says she feels ‘ignored’

Sylvia Lancaster at her home.
Sylvia Lancaster, whose daughter Sophie was murdered in 2007 after she and her boyfriend Robert Maltby were attacked in a park. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian

A mother whose 20-year-old daughter was kicked to death because she was dressed as a goth has said she feels “ignored” and “silenced” by the justice system as her killer is set to be freed from prison.

Sophie Lancaster was murdered and her boyfriend badly beaten in what a judge described as a “feral” and “savage” attack by teenagers in Lancashire in August 2007.

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