Sophie Lancaster murderer's sentence reduced

One of the two teenage boys who murdered student Sophie Lancaster "for being a goth" last August has had his jail term reduced by the Court of Appeal. Sophie and boyfriend Robert Maltby were the victims of an unprovoked attack in Stubbylee Park in Bacup, Lancashire in the early hours of August 11 2007. A gang of five boys (aged between 15-17) whom Sophie and Robert had earlier been talking with, suddenly turned into a "pack of wild animals" and began kicking and stamping on Roberts head. They t...

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