Royal Exchange, ManchesterSophie Lancaster was a 20-year-old goth with dreadlocked hair. On 11 August 2007, she and her boyfriend, Robert Maltby, went to talk to a group of teenagers in Stubbylee park in Bacup. The group turned on them. As she tried to protect Maltby from their assault, Lancaster was kicked so viciously that her face was left imprinted with the shape of a metal star from the end of some trainer laces…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:28PM on September 24, 2012