Twenty-year-old Sophie Lancaster was kicked and stamped to death by a pack of 'feral' youths at her local park in Bacup, Lancashire. Her boyfriend Rob Maltby was also set upon and received life-threatening injuries. Their only 'crime' was to dress differently - in a Goth style. In Weirdo Mosher Freak the first journalist on the scene Catherine Smyth gives a personal account of a crime that shocked the small close-knit community and stunned the world through the powerful media tool of the internet. While researching the book Smyth unearthed several anomalies: the police admitted initially attending the wrong park and the ambulance took 14 minutes to travel a distance of a mile in reaching the scene. Profits from the book are divided equally between the author, publisher and the Sophie Lancaster Foundation.