A MUSICIAN has written a song about alleged murder victim Sophie Lancaster - and she will perform it at a festival in her memory.
A 12-hour music marathon at Bacup Borough ground West View will begin at 1pm on Saturday with bands from all over Lancashire taking to the stage throughout the event.
Kelly Roddy, lead singer of Bacup band Cosmic Slop, has organised the festival and wrote the song "Walk in the Park", to raise money for a memorial fund.
Sophie, a former Haslingden High pupil from Bacup, died in hospital in August two weeks after she was attacked in Stubbylee Park.
Her boyfriend Rob Maltby survived the incident. It is suspected they may have been targeted due to their "gothic" style of clothing.
Kelly, 34, of Kiln Terrace, Stacksteads, said: "Everyone has been so shocked by what happened to Sophie that I felt I wanted to do something, not just to raise cash but also to get everyone enjoying themselves together and not bothering how someone else looks.
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"I didn't know Sophie well but my son Jay knew her and I have always told him it's good to be different.
"That's what the song's all about, and that's what the festival's all about. We haven't had long to organise it but we've had help from loads of people.
"We've managed to get more than 15 acts to perform, and I've tried hard to get as many different music styles as I could, to really show that we want everyone, no matter what their taste, to get involved.
"We'll be performing 'Walk in the Park' at around 2.30pm, and we hope there will be lots of people there to hear it and think about Sophie."
The festival has been combined with Bacup Borough FC's Vodkat Northern Counties league match against Abbey Hey, which will kick off at 3pm, with free entry to the match.
Kelly said: "Everyone finds it hard to talk about what happened to Sophie because it's just too horrible for words, but hopefully we can bring people together with this."
Five youths have appeared in court charged with Sophie's murder.
[bold][italic]A MUSICIAN has written a song about alleged murder victim Sophie Lancaster[/italic] [/bold]
Sorry,but why did Camille Sutcliffe use the term 'ALLEGED'?'
There was nothing 'ALLEGED' concerned with this story,and I think that you owe the family and friends of Sophie an apology for using that vile word in the first place...Shame on you,Camille...
A MUSICIAN has written a song about alleged murder victim Sophie Lancaster
Sorry,but why did Camille Sutcliffe use the term 'ALLEGED'?'
There was nothing 'ALLEGED' concerned with this story,and I think that you owe the family and friends of Sophie an apology for using that vile word in the first place...Shame on you,Camille...
While I agree with you BLT, it's not up for us to decide. The court will decide whether it was murder or not. I presume the story included the word alleged so that jurors will not automatically assume it's murder. Everyone has a right to a fair trial. no matter how awful the accusation.
While I agree with you BLT, it's not up for us to decide. The court will decide whether it was murder or not. I presume the story included the word alleged so that jurors will not automatically assume it's murder. Everyone has a right to a fair trial. no matter how awful the accusation.
You really have done well this song,what a great day me and the kids had at the football club aswell,just wish the community could of done this without this tragic loss of a beutifull (spelt that wrong) life! RIP,SOPHIE! Hope ROB is doing better! Best wishes to both familes.****
You really have done well this song,what a great day me and the kids had at the football club aswell,just wish the community could of done this without this tragic loss of a beutifull (spelt that wrong) life! RIP,SOPHIE! Hope ROB is doing better! Best wishes to both familes.****
I live in the U S , my son is gothic and i found this story and it made me cry , id like to send a card and a letter with my condolences.I dont understand why people do this kinda thing, I dress in cowboy gear and i harressed alott, and i dont understand, my son dresses gothic and gets harrassed also,
But anyway, i was wondering if u could help me. Barbara kosch
I live in the U S , my son is gothic and i found this story and it made me cry , id like to send a card and a letter with my condolences.I dont understand why people do this kinda thing, I dress in cowboy gear and i harressed alott, and i dont understand, my son dresses gothic and gets harrassed also,
But anyway, i was wondering if u could help me. Barbara kosch
Ah yes, "alleged" - that's right.
Despite the fact her face was repeatedly kicked and stamped upon to the point of being swollen out like a balloon and chunks of flesh ripped out from her hair being pulled with such ferocity, we have no absolute concrete proof that Sophie's death was anything other than accidental, eh?
When the Press use such offensive terms as this in order to be legally authoritative it seems obvious to me what kind of "justice" Sophie is going to get.
This was a hate-crime, pure and simple - and not a haphazard random unwilling accident.
Had this case been a chav couple beaten so viciously by goth kids you could guarantee there would be a huge media witch hunt in to their life-styles afterwards (with probably the devil mentioned somewhere along the line)and there would be no bandying around with words such as "alleged" to describe the event afterwards.
Ah yes, "alleged" - that's right.
Despite the fact her face was repeatedly kicked and stamped upon to the point of being swollen out like a balloon and chunks of flesh ripped out from her hair being pulled with such ferocity, we have no absolute concrete proof that Sophie's death was anything other than accidental, eh?
When the Press use such offensive terms as this in order to be legally authoritative it seems obvious to me what kind of "justice" Sophie is going to get.
This was a hate-crime, pure and simple - and not a haphazard random unwilling accident.
Had this case been a chav couple beaten so viciously by goth kids you could guarantee there would be a huge media witch hunt in to their life-styles afterwards (with probably the devil mentioned somewhere along the line)and there would be no bandying around with words such as "alleged" to describe the event afterwards.
My mum works at intensive care at fairfield hospital where she was admitted to. She was so furious because some of the doctors and other nurses at first refused to treat her because [italic]they thought she'd overdosed, "She's probably a drug addict" one said[/italic] . My mum went mental at them saying that they have no right to assume things like that, it's obvious that she hadn't overdosed, she ended up dying because her brain had swollen. It's [bold]absolutely appaling[/bold] that not only the scum that do it on a regular basis (beating up people who AREN'T chavs) and even the people who are meant to treat injured, dying people think the same thing.
My mum works at intensive care at fairfield hospital where she was admitted to. She was so furious because some of the doctors and other nurses at first refused to treat her because they thought she'd overdosed, "She's probably a drug addict" one said . My mum went mental at them saying that they have no right to assume things like that, it's obvious that she hadn't overdosed, she ended up dying because her brain had swollen. It's absolutely appaling that not only the scum that do it on a regular basis (beating up people who AREN'T chavs) and even the people who are meant to treat injured, dying people think the same thing.
WHAT HAS HAPPENED IS DISGRACEFUL. 'ALLEGED' THAT WORD IS DISGRACEFUL TOO. I CAN'T BELIEVE SOMEONE COULD EVEN THINK ABOUT USING THAT WORD. THE POOR COUPLE WERE ATTACKED AND PEOPLE ARE USING THAT WORD, I THINK THEY NEED TO THINK CAREFULLY ABOUT THE WORDING IN THE PAPER NEXT TIME THEY WRITE. THOUGHT AND PRAYERS GOING OUT TO THE FAMILY.
WHAT HAS HAPPENED IS DISGRACEFUL. 'ALLEGED' THAT WORD IS DISGRACEFUL TOO. I CAN'T BELIEVE SOMEONE COULD EVEN THINK ABOUT USING THAT WORD. THE POOR COUPLE WERE ATTACKED AND PEOPLE ARE USING THAT WORD, I THINK THEY NEED TO THINK CAREFULLY ABOUT THE WORDING IN THE PAPER NEXT TIME THEY WRITE. THOUGHT AND PRAYERS GOING OUT TO THE FAMILY.
Posted by: THINK ABOUT IT, Darwen on 6:41pm Thu 27 Mar 08
[quote][bold]Lisa[/bold] wrote:
My mum works at intensive care at fairfield hospital where she was admitted to. She was so furious because some of the doctors and other nurses at first refused to treat her because [italic]they thought she\'d overdosed, \"She\'s probably a drug addict\" one said[/italic] . My mum went mental at them saying that they have no right to assume things like that, it\'s obvious that she hadn\'t overdosed, she ended up dying because her brain had swollen. It\'s [bold]absolutely appaling[/bold] that not only the scum that do it on a regular basis (beating up people who AREN\'T chavs) and even the people who are meant to treat injured, dying people think the same thing.[/quote] I understand your anger But i would think after everything that's gone on I'm sure the family and friends would NOT want to read that to add more pain,A time and place for everything.
Lisa wrote:
My mum works at intensive care at fairfield hospital where she was admitted to. She was so furious because some of the doctors and other nurses at first refused to treat her because they thought she\'d overdosed, \"She\'s probably a drug addict\" one said . My mum went mental at them saying that they have no right to assume things like that, it\'s obvious that she hadn\'t overdosed, she ended up dying because her brain had swollen. It\'s absolutely appaling that not only the scum that do it on a regular basis (beating up people who AREN\'T chavs) and even the people who are meant to treat injured, dying people think the same thing.
I understand your anger But i would think after everything that's gone on I'm sure the family and friends would NOT want to read that to add more pain,A time and place for everything.
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