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A teacher was sacked after saying Lucy Connolly’s prison sentence was an example of “two-tier policing”.

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MrsGuyOfGisbo · 06/08/2025 15:23

Terrifying!
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/03/teacher-sacked-preston-college-two-tier-lucy-connolly/?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwMARFBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHkzVENZ7Uuj5t683HKQF_DzYMCjcNAyXrug8djqeWVi30-Us_ALPBq3XIanb_aem_Wo-H97tP5dRGbhHDYGRSSA&ICID=continue_without_subscribing_reg_first

OP posts:
MrsGuyOfGisbo · 06/08/2025 15:25

Summary of the article here

A teacher was sacked after saying Lucy Connolly’s prison sentence was an example of “two-tier policing”.
OP posts:
Awaywiththegnomes · 06/08/2025 15:25

Have you read the article in full?

JamesMacGill · 06/08/2025 15:26

Can somebody post the article in full please? Can’t judge until I’ve seen the facts.

MrsGuyOfGisbo · 06/08/2025 15:30

You can read on the Telegraph Online with a temporary free subscription.
Tried to post an image of the article, but MN appears to have rejected it, for some reason

OP posts:
Awaywiththegnomes · 06/08/2025 15:31

MrsGuyOfGisbo · 06/08/2025 15:25

Summary of the article here

This is NOT a “summary”

this is an excerpt

slightlydistrac · 06/08/2025 15:40

Well either she was guilty or she wasn't. That is all. Nothing to do with 'two tier' or anything else. If she was found guilty by the court then that's that.
I haven't ready any of the newspaper reports - there's no need.

Hoppinggreen · 06/08/2025 15:50

I am not terrified either.

Underthinker · 06/08/2025 15:51

I don't think the teacher should have been sacked. But having read a bit more about this yesterday his comments on Connolly's sentencing weren't the most controversial post, there was something about deporting the Manchester airport attackers, who are British, which implies a different legal process based on ethnicity. The teacher has since apologised for offence caused, and I think it would have been better for everybody to leave it at that.

ArseInTheCoOpWindow · 06/08/2025 15:51

Terrified😂

Roothewheel · 06/08/2025 16:02

What a silly OP

UnderCoverB0ss · 06/08/2025 16:08

As a teacher, presumably they’re educated. What’s so difficult to understand? She submitted a guilty plea and the magistrate/judge sentenced her based upon the guidelines for the relevant offence.
What others have or haven’t been sentenced for different offences is irrelevant.

Goody2ShoesAndTheFilthyBeast · 06/08/2025 16:10

Except he didnt get sacked for one comment, did he?
Reading the article linked, its very clear hes said all sorts of shit.

skippy67 · 06/08/2025 17:03

Well, I'm shocked at that.😐

Uniworries · 06/08/2025 17:44

This is the teacher who thinks we should be deporting the Manchester airport thugs as they're brown, because he either assumed that meant they cant be British born and bred, or that their ethnicity means they have lower rights as British citizens. Stupid is as stupid does.

Bad enough from a teacher at any time, but it being linked with defending the stupid woman who encouraged violence against immigrants based on the Southport murderer being black, therefore must be an immigrant, so if they get murdered too that's ok, yes he absolutely should be sacked.
He's not got enough common sense for his post.

His views on who is British and who isn't are clear.
His views on ignoring the rules around his profession are also clear.
He's entitled to think what he wants, but those who loudly voice divisiveness don't belong in teaching.

Teachers have higher restrictions on lots of things that bring their profession, schools and colleges into disrepute. He knew that and didn't care.
I don't want to find what other rules that are there to protect the young people he teaches, don't matter to him.

PhilippaGeorgiou · 06/08/2025 18:00

He's a racist apologist for extreme violence who thinks it's "understandable" to be that; supported by an organisation that has abhorrent views. He's been sacked. Nothing to be terrified of now.

JamesMacGill · 06/08/2025 18:02

Uniworries · 06/08/2025 17:44

This is the teacher who thinks we should be deporting the Manchester airport thugs as they're brown, because he either assumed that meant they cant be British born and bred, or that their ethnicity means they have lower rights as British citizens. Stupid is as stupid does.

Bad enough from a teacher at any time, but it being linked with defending the stupid woman who encouraged violence against immigrants based on the Southport murderer being black, therefore must be an immigrant, so if they get murdered too that's ok, yes he absolutely should be sacked.
He's not got enough common sense for his post.

His views on who is British and who isn't are clear.
His views on ignoring the rules around his profession are also clear.
He's entitled to think what he wants, but those who loudly voice divisiveness don't belong in teaching.

Teachers have higher restrictions on lots of things that bring their profession, schools and colleges into disrepute. He knew that and didn't care.
I don't want to find what other rules that are there to protect the young people he teaches, don't matter to him.

I think the majority of the public think similarly to him about Lucy Connolly.

EstherGreenwood63 · 06/08/2025 18:05

Good. Thickhead.

Mewling · 06/08/2025 18:09

Nice try, OP. 😂

goldenquestion · 06/08/2025 18:10

JamesMacGill · 06/08/2025 18:02

I think the majority of the public think similarly to him about Lucy Connolly.

Possibly. Doesn’t make them right. The ones that understand the law don’t agree with him.

Uniworries · 06/08/2025 18:27

JamesMacGill · 06/08/2025 18:02

I think the majority of the public think similarly to him about Lucy Connolly.

I wouldn't be too sure of that, lots of the British public think she got what she deserved, others just understand the law. But it's irrelevant If your a teacher, you don't spout it. That's what you sign up to when you sign your contract.

People who don't care about the contracts they sign, don't deserve to stay in the roles they're contracted for.

GrammarTeacher · 06/08/2025 18:33

He fell short of the Teaching Standards. This article’s headline is similar to when students say I was given a detention for looking out the window. Whilst sometimes technically true it’s not the whole story.
There’s a reason that it’s ’swear to tell the truth, the WHOLE truth and NOTHING but the truth.’
It is actually quite difficult to remove teachers for this kind of thing compared to other professions. It’s a long process unless there’s something really, really bad.

Keepingittogetherstepbystep · 06/08/2025 18:34

This isn't behind a paywall.

https://www.blogpreston.co.uk/2025/08/preston-college-teacher-sacked-for-social-media-comments/

Roothewheel · 06/08/2025 18:38

Goody2ShoesAndTheFilthyBeast · 06/08/2025 16:10

Except he didnt get sacked for one comment, did he?
Reading the article linked, its very clear hes said all sorts of shit.

Oh not a chance this Op actually read the article