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Murdered for Being Different (2017)

Jun 18, 2017 Crime, Drama 1h 2m
62%
User Score
7.7/10

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.

Nick Leather
Writer
Paul Andrew Williams
Director

Top Billed Cast

Abigail Lawrie
Abigail Lawrie

Sophie Lancaster
Nico Mirallegro
Nico Mirallegro

Rob Maltby
Chanel Cresswell
Chanel Cresswell

DC Steph Farley
Sally Lindsay
Sally Lindsay

Tracey Maltby
Sophie McShera
Sophie McShera

Mandy Gorman
Lewis Brown
Lewis Brown

Danny Hulme
Dominic Carter
Dominic Carter

DC Mark Green
Amelia Clarke
Amelia Clarke

Sam Gorman
Chris Coghill
Chris Coghill

Dave Maltby

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Media

Murdered For Being Different Trailer - BBC Three
Murdered For Being Different Trailer - BBC Three
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A review by John Chard
Written on October 17, 2017

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 road, the ignorance and intolerance back then still manifests itself today, quite often with tragic and hateful consequence. Upon watching Murdered for Being Different, the impact of the overwhelming sa...

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