{"id":4860,"date":"2014-12-16T11:02:09","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T11:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/12\/16\/the-mother-of-a-murdered-goth-was-awarded-an-obe-for-her-work-to-tackle-hate-crime\/"},"modified":"2014-12-16T11:02:09","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T11:02:09","slug":"the-mother-of-a-murdered-goth-was-awarded-an-obe-for-her-work-to-tackle-hate-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2014\/12\/16\/the-mother-of-a-murdered-goth-was-awarded-an-obe-for-her-work-to-tackle-hate-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"The mother of a murdered Goth, was awarded an OBE for her work to tackle hate crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/79669000\/jpg\/_79669376_53932424.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"217\" height=\"122\" \/><br \/>Sylvia Lancaster&#8217;s daughter Sophie died after an attack in a Bacup park in 2007 because of her appearance.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Lancaster later set up the Sophie Lancaster Foundation to help people targeted due to their individuality.<\/p>\n<p>Sophie would be &#8220;proud&#8221;, she said. &#8220;It&#8217;s a validation of the work we do and of the alternative subcultures.&#8221;  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>The foundation aims to challenge prejudices towards people from  alternative subcultures, and campaigns on hate crime legislation.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Lancaster, who carried a velvet bag with a skull on it to  represent subcultures, was honoured at Buckingham Palace by Prince  Charles.<\/p>\n<p>Miss Lancaster, a gap year student, was kicked and stamped as she cradled her injured boyfriend Rob Maltby<\/p>\n<p>While he who survived the attack by two youths, she died in hospital 13 days later.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Herbert and Brendan Harris, both from Bacup, were jailed  for life in 2008 for Miss Lancaster&#8217;s murder and for causing grievous  bodily harm to Mr Maltby.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC News<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sylvia Lancaster&#8217;s daughter Sophie died after an attack in a Bacup park in 2007 because&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}