Sylvia Lancaster who was awarded an OBE in 2014 for fighting hate crime died weeks after the announcement that one of her daughter s killers was set to be freed.
Sylvia Lancaster s daughter Sophie, 20, was attacked in a park in Bacup, Lancashire, with her boyfriend Robert Maltby in 2007 after being targeted because they were dressed as goths.
<p>On August 11 2007 young goths Robert Maltby and Sophie Lancaster were brutally attacked by a teenage gang . a year on, <strong>Mark Hodkinson</strong> investigates the tragic death of the girl who dared to be different</p>
Dr Sylvia Lancaster, whose daughter Sophie, 20, was murdered by a gang because she looked like a goth said that she is very disappointed that one of her daughter s killers will be released from jail.
Ryan Herbert was 16 when he and a group of friends viciously beat Robert Maltby in a park in Bacup, Lancashire, in 2007, before turning on his girlfriend Sophie Lancaster