Black Roses is a poetic sequence written in the voice of Sophie Lancaster.

Black Roses

 By Simon Armitage  Twenty-year-old Sophie was attacked in a Lancashire park in 2007 and died several days later. The ferocity of the assault caused distress and outrage when reported by the international media and led to the creation of the Sophie Lancaster Foundation, a charity opposed to all forms of hate crime and victimisation.The radio broadcast of Black Roses won the BBC Radio Best Speech Programme of 2011 and was short-listed for the Ted Hughes Award for Poetry.One-third of all profits from the sale of this book will be donated to the Sophie Lancaster Foundation.

 A film directed by by Paul Andrew Williams  called Murdered for Being Different was released  in 2017.    A young couple: Rob and Sophie, is buying alcohol at a convenience store late at night. They are indeed friendly to people, even though they dress exaggeratedly in gothic style. Sophie wears black and red dreadlocks, earrings, nose rings, and lip rings; her boyfriend, Rob, is similar with dark curly hair, thick eyeliner, lip rings, heavy chains, and big skull rings on his hands. Their dress attracts the attention of two teenagers. One teenager, Michael asks Sophie if he can touch her hair and she agrees joyfully, joking that she will have to charge him next time. Interested in Rob and Sophie, he invites them to the park. In the park, there is a crowd of young people. Most of them, especially the girls, find their dress interesting and one girl even asks to have a picture with them. Right here and now, the gothic couple and the street teenagers get along well with each other. However, less than half an hour later, Rob and Sophie have been beaten with blood all over, and Sophie does not even breathe.