Like Dressing Goth? Watch Out, Brendan Harris Will Kick You to Death

[Lizard]

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Brendan Harris, a 15-year-old British boy, has been found guilty of murder after he kicked 20-year-old Sophie Lancaster to death because she was wearing Goth-style black clothes.

Unprovoked, a group of youngsters attacked Lancaster and her boyfriend Robert Maltby. She begged them to stop but was kicked and punched too. They both were left unconscious, and her injuries were described as so bad it was difficult at first to tell what sex she was.

It emerged after the verdict that Harris, who admitted starting the frenzied attack because he was "drunk and showing off", had been convicted of kicking and stamping on a 16-year-old youth in April last year.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10500672
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/mar/28/ukcrime

[dop]

What a fucking douche...

I really cant understand why someone would go to that lenght out of hatread for someone else's musical and fashion preference of all things...

Here in Mex emos been all over the mainstreem media latley becuase in Mexico city two weeks there was a big gathering(im guessing concert of an emo band but fuck knows) and several hundreds of metal heads and punks had organised to go beat the shit out of em, the riot police intervened on time but several similar cases have been going around last few weeks...

[Unamused Cat]

http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg107/snarkyphotos/LancasterHospPA_468x317.jpg

The family of Sophie Lancaster, who was beaten to death for being a Goth, have released a haunting picture of her battered face as she lay fighting for life in a hospital bed.

Her eyes purple with bruising and kept alive by machinery, the 20-year-old student was eventually to die of her injuries 13 days after the attack.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=547708&in_page_id=1770

Rest in peace Sophie.

[nurseronda]

Now he can again show off in front of his friends and brag about being in prison, if the inmates there don't get the same idea and kick the shit out of him to the point of breaking this little creeps back so that he will never be able to kick someone to death again. Poor Sophie, all she was doing was establishing her own identity.

[Athena]

What a fucking douche...

I really cant understand why someone would go to that lenght out of hatread for someone else's musical and fashion preference of all things...

Here in Mex emos been all over the mainstreem media latley becuase in Mexico city two weeks there was a big gathering(im guessing concert of an emo band but fuck knows) and several hundreds of metal heads and punks had organised to go beat the shit out of em, the riot police intervened on time but several similar cases have been going around last few weeks...

I just about posted a thread about that today. TIME Magazine has a great article about the whole mess down there. Apparently, three youths...THREE...were beaten by youths, hundreds of which gathered in Queretaro after internet organization, to do just that.

TIME's article titled, "Mexico's Emo-Bashing Problem". (http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1725839,00.html)

[Unamused Cat]

Now he can again show off in front of his friends and brag about being in prison, if the inmates there don't get the same idea and kick the shit out of him to the point of breaking this little creeps back so that he will never be able to kick someone to death again. Poor Sophie, all she was doing was establishing her own identity.

This pisses me off. "Officers said Harris and his mother sniggered while he was interviewed by police about the appalling attack." Evil, low-life bitch. :grrrrrr:

Ryan Herbert, co-killer

http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg107/snarkyphotos/HarrisHerbertPA_468x333-1.jpg

[Mom of 4]

Nice! Mommy thought it was amusing that her son kicked a girl to death for no reason? Maybe someone wil kick the shit out of her son in prison and tape it? They could send her the tape and see if she finds it amusing to watch.:mad:

[Wends]

Creepy.

Little.

Assmunch (and family).

He and his mother should be kicked to a pulp. Not to death (would want anyone else stooping to his horrendous level), but to a nice, clean pulp. Like mashed orange innards. By a gathering of goths and other concerned persons. For looking like a colon-sucking twit.

Sorry that I've nothing more constructive to say, but my creativity went kersplat along with this boy and his mother's show of pristine moral adequacy.

[Lizard]

He and his mother should be kicked to a pulp. Not to death (would want anyone else stooping to his horrendous level), but to a nice, clean pulp. Like mashed orange innards.

Well, yes, but after being pulped to death, they could be spread about in the garden and serve a useful purpose.

[skeptical]

Nah! Pretty as he is, he will be someone's Bitch when he gets to prison. I'm told they like little pretty boys in there...he he he......;)

[Unamused Cat]

Update

Brendan Harris and Ryan Herbert, the two teenagers accused of murdering Sophie Lancaster (pictured above) because she was a goth, have been given life sentences.

The duo, who are 15 and 16 years old respectively, received their sentences at Preston Crown Court today (April 28). Harris will serve a minimum of 18 years in jail, Herbert must serve a minimum of 16.

http://www.nme.com/news/various-artists/36274

The pair kicked Lancaster to death in Stubbylee Park in Bacup, Lancashire last summer, reports BBC News.

Three further teenagers received jail sentences for their involvement in the attack. Joseph and Danny Hulme received a sentence of five years and ten months each. Daniel Mallett received a sentence of four years and four months. Danny Hulme was 16, while the other two teenagers were both 17.

[Keepbreathing]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/lancashire/7370637.stm

[michelle]

Thats really fucked up. The thugs got what they deserve and I hope Bubba likes em young. Do we still call him Bubba across the pond?

[Dakota_Valkyrie]

Sophie's mum 'may stop working with young offenders'
http://www.lancashireeveningtelegraph.co.uk/display.var.2158611.0.sophies_mum_may_stop_working _with_young_offenders.php

Mother of goth student kicked to death by binge drinking teens attacks rise of 'skunk' cannabis
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23481016-details/Mother+of+goth+student+kicked+to+death+by+binge+dr inking+teens+attacks+rise+of+'skunk'+cannabis/article.do (http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23481016-details/Mother+of+goth+student+kicked+to+death+by+binge+dr inking+teens+attacks+rise+of+%27skunk%27+cannabis/article.do)

Sophie's murder prompts violence fall
http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/headlines/display.var.2155087.0.sophies_murder_prompts_viole nce_fall.php


And my all time favorite... just for it's title alone:
Goth Kill: Mums in Hiding
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/justice/article974745.ece#OTC-RSS&ATTR=Sun%20Justice

There are so many layers in this story. Tragic is only the first word for it all...

[Lizard]

There's already a thread on this.

http://www.dreamindemon.com/forums/showthread.php?p=28504#post28504

[impqueen]

Welcome to the site, Keepbreathing! :D

I'm merging your thread since there's another one already up, but no worries, it happens a lot around here. I hope you'll stick around and keep posting. :)

[Lizard]

Welcome, keepbreathing! Hope you hang around and tell us a bit about yourself in "Introduce Yourself"!

[TheLittleFriend]

My husband came from UK. He said people love headbutting people. I hope they will headbutt this little shit until the guts and blood splash across the floor....then anal rape him.