Update on goth hate crime

I blogged a while back on hate crimes against youth cultures. One of the things I talked about was the horrific case of Sophie Lancaster, the goth killed by a gang in Northern England. Now Vice Magazine has an intriguing interview with Sophie Lancaster's boyfriend, who was also seriously assaulted. The article seems to cast doubt on whether the couple were assaulted for being goths. In fact, it may have been something even more senseless - a killing just for being someone the perpetrators had taken a vague disliking too.

It's one of these impossible questions: would you rather be killed for something than nothing?