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Murdered for Being Different

Murdered for Being Different

5,9 /10 (13 Votes)
2017 EN 62 min

Overview

Drama telling the true story of the murder of 20-year-old Sophie Lancaster in 2007, who was kicked to death in a park by a gang. Her boyfriend, Robert Maltby, was also severely beaten and put into a coma. The two of them were attacked because they were dressed as goths.

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Release date

18/06/2017

Votes

13

Popularity

0.3

Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

62 min

Website

www.bbc.co.uk

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John Chard

John Chard

2017-10-17

⭐ 9

Sophie Lancaster - Lest Anyone Forgets. Bacup, Rossendale, Lancashire on 11 August 2007, and Sophie Lancaster and her boyfriend Robert Maltby were set upon by a pack of feral thugs - their crime was to be different, to dress differently from their attackers. The attack left both Sophie and Robert in comas, Sophie would never wake up, murdered for being different. This BBC film tells the story. Back in the dead part of 1970s Great Britain, I was a Punk Rocker, something that to many was akin to being the Devil's spawn. So much so a car swerved to try and hit me one day as I crossed the ro…

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