The Horrific Murder of Sophie Lancaster | Deadliest Kids | True Crime Stories | TCC

20-year-old Sophie Lancaster was attacked and brutally beaten by a gang of teenagers. Sophie's mother and friends talk about the tragic events.
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STAMP OUT PREJUDICE, HATRED AND INTOLERANCE EVERYWHERE.
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[@thelastdaybreathinginetern1385]

I've watched this case so many times because I'm both Goth and a Metalhead. I've been into the cultures of both for almost 15 years. What happened to her is very tragic and saddening indeed.. thank you for covering this..

[@einienj3281]

Same. I've been a part of both cultures over 25 years.. didn't even cross my mind I could get murdered bc of it. Horrible and heartbreaking..

[@dementedopossum8148]

People are scared if you are a wolf not a sheep. And some are taking it a lot further, especially those who are uneducated and have never known boundaries - and they are usually travel in pairs or groups.

[@jamileighharris444]

@@dementedopossum8148you’re absolutely right. 🎯

[@sharonbrown6595]

My daughters dressed goth and thank god no one hurt them. It’s tragic when others think they r much better than the ones they killed. It’s not worth it to hurt others. Get to know them. My girls both work now in the medical field and r productive citizens of Canada r married and have families of their own and I am very proud of them. And I love them so much

[@jesterday2222]

I don't get it. So if she wasn't a goth you would not have watched it many times? Or cared less?

[@beckyjo8745]

16 and 18 yrs for MURDER HATE CRIME!!?? REALLY!!??? that's no where near enough!! No justice here!! They should have a WHOLE LIFE SENTENCE!!!

[@annamarielewis7078]

Typical of British law

[@itwasagoodideaatthetime7980]

I think the appropriate sentence should be strapping the murders to a set of indestructible chairs. & letting the victims family & friends have a go at them with a 🏏 for 5 minutes each.

[@Unbreakable245]

You can't and you shouldn't be able to sentence a juvenile to life without parole. Yeah they should recieve a sentence, i just think it's too harsh to sentence someone who's under the age of 18 to LWOP. Brain is not fully developed until 25 years of age, research shows. I think 18 should be the absolute minimum age for such sentences

[@dorientjewoller113]

@@Unbreakable245 BS, both knew exactly what they did ... brain fully developed or not.

[@CanadianQueenmagenta]

@@Unbreakable245 I wonder if you would feel this way if the victim was your sister, cousin, friend etc. I doubt it very much. Some humans are just plain evil and that will never change.

[@einienj3281]

Heartbreaking and infuriating..

[@HarlanHarvey76]

Her Mother is one of the strongest women I have ever seen - at least on the outside. She is showing so much love without exuding the type of hatred and bitterness that can sway opinions. She just strikes me as a strong person.

[@vovEmanations]

Agreed ❤ Sylvia passed away though 😢 She's with Sophie now. RIP angels

[@HarlanHarvey76]

@@vovEmanations 🥲

[@janemojcec8945]

Whenever i watch this case, it breaks my heart 💔😭 RIP beautiful Sohie 🦋🌹🦋🌹 Prayers for your family and friends.🙏❣️🙏

[@waywardangel6356]

It's seriously one of a few that can bring me to tears! 😢 R.I.P Sophie 🕊💚🥀

[@MrScabtree]

I know rob, he's doing alright now and he's a brilliant artist, RIP Sophie and Sylvia ❤️

[@leticiakiddey8334]

Thats really great to know that he's doing OK

[@vovEmanations]

Sylvia attended an alternative festival here in Sweden, the Subkult Festival, where her charity and a Swedish equivalent cooperated together. I had lived in the UK 2004 - 2013, and remember this horrible crime well and could relate a lot being alternative myself. I had a stall at the festival selling my designed accessories and was doing airbrush tattoos. I had the honour of finally meeting Sylvia in person and got to do a black rose for her ❤ Lovely woman and stuff a sweet lady. RIP both of you ❤

[@karenhanania9014]

I think Sophie's mother is amazing. She seems to have handled this whole ruinous episode with deep and obvious love for her daughter, dignity, pragmatism, and courage.

[@per_se_phone]

Such a tragic and heartbreaking story. I was 15 when this happened and dressed goth aswell. I've also dealt with quite some bullying and harrasment because of how i looked, especially when i moved to a small town. Friends of mine got beaten up too. Kids today should count their blessings, they don't know how hard it was back then to be and look different, it was definitely not as celebrated and tolerated as it is today

[@theresarasche3173]

So very sad 😢❤ I can’t even imagine how young people could do something like this nor why? RIP Sophie 😢🙏❤️

[@toddgraff2177]

If I were the parent, like hell they'd walk out of prison after only 16yrs.

[@ellilee4199]

If someone shows they're evil that young then LISTEN! Lock them away from society and stop destroying innocent people's lives over this rehabilitation bs. I see it too much and I'm sick of losing good people just so their sick murderer gets to live and do it to another person. 😔

[@sonalfennema4546]

What a terrible true story, but the way Sylvia tells about it is amazing and very inspiring. Thanks for sharing, it touches me deeply.

[@BloomByCC]

RIP ❤ A beautiful legacy that your Mama carries forward. ❤

[@jemmlizzerz7823]

Rip to this beautiful soul. ❤ I also wanted to commend her sweet mother for being so loving and accepting of her daughter's identity and in becoming who she was meant to be. Need more parents like this today! Edit: spelling

[@elvishards8161]

"WE ARE THE OTHERS" this story always breaks my heart RIP Sophie

[@ManahsRoom]

I watch many crime documentaries; this touched me on another level.

[@Redwarden1992]

This is an absolute disgrace. People are so quick to spread hate without realising what happens as a result. All people deserve equal treatment, and to be treated like humans. Victims of hate crimes like this deserve so much better. RIP to this beautiful soul that didn't deserve to suffer such hate

[@amyezell4950]

That's sorry as hell what they did so sad .prayers for the families and victim

[@foucault8964]

I’ve been interested in this case for years. Since I heard her mom holding her as she died…

[@wildbirdbuffetfrenzy4161]

We should all ask questions...Do not surrender...

[@MrMalvolio29]

I certainly would have been one of Sophie’s few friends had I known her as I was growing up in the 1980’s. I too was a Goth who wore black or dark clothing all the time; I hated all the animalistic social “frenzy” about and emphasis on sports, and instead preferred reading poetry, philosophy, and apocryphal religious texts; thought of myself as an agnostic questioning everything; loved attending poetry slams while inhaling a good blunt at the coffee house; hated the anti-intellectual, anti-artistic, closed-minded, hierarchical conservative “values” of all the cliques of “popular” kids in school; and found many of the things I felt and thought about my hopelessly AWKWARD self expressed in the “alternative” or “underground” music I enjoyed so very much… Yes indeed: Sophie sounds like she was a fascinating person…And ABSOLUTELY!!!!! Just like Sophie and her friends, the little Goth “tribe” I was a part of *ALSO* did just as The Smiths did in “Cemetery Gates,” and read our favourite poems to one another while drinking and smoking in the cemetery!

[@brendatenorio5721]

Sophie had a brilliant Mum!

[@surreygirl2075]

This happened in our town it was his birthday and he was with his girlfriend in the pub they were attacked and the girl was punched and had a black eye and the boys head was kicked like a football and he died they had a mental age of,11 but they were older it was a very wicked thing to do the boys were looked up and family bought flowers where he died I think she will never get over the horror of it I can't believe it they were worst than animals and horrible and very cruel and had hate inside them they were laughing which made it worse

[@janetrossiter134]

RIP you beautiful individual young lady xx

[@claire-christmas-august73]

broke my heart hearing this story.. as a person that’s always been quirky since my tween years. you should be able to express yourself, freely without chads, eshays, bogans criticism / threats of violence / impending doom / death. may your gorgeous spirit and soul radiate, whenever you may now be.! precious, beautiful young lady.. 🥺🕯🥺 ✌🏻🌏🇦🇺🤘🏻

[@joannecannon5033]

omgoodness heartbreaking poor sophie,what a horrific thing to happen,her mum is a very strong lady

[@Chris_34]

They'll be getting out in the next couple of years😒

[@katemurphy5773]

😡😡🤬

[@audrahartman4212]

Truly I can see only love for each other in the victims and God bless her Mum for all that she has done since 🫶🏻🙏🙏

[@MrMalvolio29]

It invariably strikes me when I watch this particular series that the so-called “professional experts” they have on hand to provide “insightful analysis” of the case material--often it’s Dr. Keri Nixon, a so-called “forensic psychologist;” in this episode it’s “criminologist” David Wilson--it almost unfailingly strikes me that these purported “experts” providing “insightful, guiding analytic commentary” MAKE THE MOST BANAL, SELF-EVIDENT, SIMPLISTIC, and INSIPID OBSERVATIONS……Who knew, Dr. David Wilson, that “when ppl are forming their friendship groups, they seek out others with similar interests, values, and forms of enjoyment--in short, they seek out people LIKE THEMSELVES?!?!?” And who would have ever figured out, Dr. Wilson, without your “enlightening” analysis, that “one’s friendship group is an important part of one’s IDENTITY”?????? Without you, oh sacred “professional expert,” we’d all be lost……

[@qchiapetp]

Yeah can this series please stop filling time with these "expert opinions"? It takes away from the show

[@MrMalvolio29]

It’s quite frustrating that this episode began by asking whether Brendan Harris’s and Ryan Herbert’s adolescent violence was a product of the environment in which they were raised, or whether their propensity for violence was innate, inborn; yet in the episode itself, we are told scarcely *anything* about the infancy, early childhood, or family and school life of *either* offender. This makes it IMPOSSIBLE for a viewer OR the program to even *begin* trying to answer the question that the *program itself* posed.

[@KaktusLady]

I hope big bubba has been having many yrs of fun with those losers.

[@user-fl2wn5zr5z]

they can't find things for these kids do do but the parents let them run the streets all hours of the night

[@jessikadople2185]

I've watched this case, and everytime it puts me in a place i don't want to be. Meaning I feel those punks should get what they give 100x worse. It sickens me. And 16 & 18 years... WTAF??? The law's or courts there are way off on their ideas of justice!! Maybe karma will find them! 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤R.I.P. Sophia 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤

[@CandyCoated7779]

the fact they taregeted her and her boyfriend tells me alternative style where she lived was not the norm like it is in the usa and didnt really see it there and anything diffrent from the average jock and cheerleader gets picked on. to be honest with those kids who did it i think the violence was already in them and they found a target to use it on sadly. if only sophie didnt go back out that night she would be alive or maybe if they avoided the park and went somewhere close to home .

[@katemurphy5773]

Why should they not have gone to the park? Everyone should feel free to go where they want in public, without fear!!! The blame here lies only with the perpetrators, NOT the victims!

[@user-fl2wn5zr5z]

heart braking I don't think so they took a life their life should be taken

[@Christine005]

16:18 We call them Eshays here in Australia

[@rhondaallan4680]

Everyone lives in diverse cultures.

[@jomurray4022]

Dear Sophies' Mum You Are Amazing ❤ XXXX Strength and Honour DifeRsMom Graffiti King DifeR NWK love and Respect

[@nw22122]

She sadly passed away in 2022. But what a beautiful mother she was.

[@idolina76]

I wish they could make these documentaries without the "experts". Always stating the obvious and totally unnecessary.

[@qchiapetp]

💯

[@Thatwhatshesaid.]

I love how stormzy and skepta just changed this idiot cult and turned into something better.

[@djdarksidejungle559]

bacup isnt somewhere id be going i used to live in burnley and that was bad enough but bacup is a whole other level of bigotry and the wild west

[@somebodysomebody7067]

🪃

[@Kathy-kr1sv]

It needs to be understood that this *momentum* is not random. Law of Attraction increases whatever energy is dominant.... Good bad murderous it will grow If more people were aware of this they'd RUN.. most rational people rationally think This can't be happening This will stop It wont. It can't.

[@user-fl2wn5zr5z]

weird town names

[@user-ou8qk6mo3y]

lived 13 days intubated in ICU and they couldn't save her? what kind of medicine do they have in the UK!🤨😏

[@user-fl2wn5zr5z]

teenagers no they are animals

[@michaelagrundler9250]

Don't blame animals 🙄 I share my life with a lot of animals and they would never be able to be that kind of disgusting pathetic coldbloody creatures!!!!

[@OLDSKOOLRAVER1]

Zzzzzz new content please. same old regurgitated stories

[@elvishards8161]

Disrespectful clown

[@theshockerpit7274]

Dude, at least act like you have some sense