Thinking of Sophie Lancaster

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i'll never understand why people do such things

I read in the Metro that the parents of the boy who did it laughed when they heard what he'd done.

I really don't understand some people.

this made me sick reading about it yesterday.

i think she was beautiful. my heart goes out to her friends and family.

This is sickening. Human being really make me question if it is all worth it sometimes

I blame the parents.

It's absolutely disgusting that this happened.
The kids who did it, KIDS, 15 and 16 year olds... I have no words. It's just so awful.

BBC article.

That explains a lot about how he came to be such a [expletive deleted].

That's way too serious, we all have differences but...

The way I read it they weren't laughing about it in court, they were laughing about it when the police were investigating the incident. When the police questioned Brendan Harris and his mother both of them were apparently laughing and joking and generally not taking the matter seriously. Now that he has been found guilty I hope that he will take the matter much more seriously but I very much doubt it.

It greatly saddened me to read about this incident. Killing someone because they are a goth seems to me to be comparable to killing someone because of their religion, nationality or race or even because of which football club they support. It wouldn't surprise me if the killers had previously committed racially motivated assaults. This kind of behaviour seems to be part and parcel of the mentality which says that people who don't belong to 'my tribe' must be treated with hostility. The fact that someone can be beaten to death on account of their dress sense is indicative of the way that some people seem to see violence as a legitimate way of spicing up an otherwise monotonous evening. The victims' dress sense seems to me to be a mere excuse for the violence and not the root motivation.