THE mother of murdered East Lancashire goth Sophie Lancaster will be taking comfort today, on the eighth anniversary of her death, that her campaign to end such hate-crimes is to hit the TV screens soon.

The 20-year-old from Haslingden died on August 24, 2007, from her horrific injuries sustained in an attack on her and her partner Robert Maltby in Stubbeylee Park, Bacup, because of their appearance.

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In memory of her daughter, Sylvia Lancaster set up The Sophie Lancaster Foundation to challenge the prejudice and intolerance towards people from alternative subcultures and to campaign to extend the UK Hate Crime legislation.

Now the BBC has revealed that its 2011 Radio Four drama turned 2012 stage play Black Roses: The Killing of Sophie Lancaster is to screened on its BBC 4 channel next month.

In it Sylvia’s own words are used to remember her daughter and the tragic events after the attack as Sophie tells her own story through a sequence of poems written by new Oxford University Professor of Poetry Simon Armitage.

It will feature Rachel Austin as Sophie and Accrington TV star Julie Hesmondhalgh, Coronation Street’s Hayley Cropper, as Sylvia.

Mrs Lancaster said: “Today will be a tough day for me, my husband John and our other children.

“The pain and heartache never goes away.”

She added: “We get so much support for us and out foundation from friends and strangers, “All this is some little consolation on a day like the anniversary of her death.”