To think Lucy Connolly has been made an example of?

[SouthernFashionista]

Have any of you read this article about Lucy Connolly who tweeted inflammatory comments following the Southport murders? I have to admit that at the time I was fully supportive of having her locked up, with the key thrown away. But reading this article made me view it all a little differently. Surely she has done her time?
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04/04/lucy-connolly-southport-riots-axel-rudakubana-taylor-swift/

There are all sorts of things that are illegal to say, though. Threats to kill, for example. Incitement of racial hatred. Any kind of contact that breaks an injunction or constitutes harassment.

You can’t just decide that any communication that takes place on Twitter is exempt from the normal laws.

What is wrong with your morality? You believe she should be in prison and be denied access to see her seriously ill husband? She made a tweet she clearly regrets it shouldn’t warrant a prison sentence.

There'll be threats to kill/incitement all over social media every day, few of them are jailed for it.

But we’re not putting everyone who tweets or says these things in prison. Just select few. To make an example out of them. Which is wrong.

The double standard is the issue. I live in London and there are antisemitic hate marches every week. People are literally waving swastikas. And that's all fine, apparently.

"On the 5th August, the day before you were arrested you sent a WhatsApp message which included “..raging tweet about burning down hotels has bit me on the arse lol “ "

Doesn't speak of huge remorse to me.

She posted several racist tweets, wrote 'LOL' about it and said she'd play the mental health card. She pled guilty to inciting violence and racial hatred and received quite a low sentence for the crime.

Her husband works full time and takes care of their daughter - remarkable considering he's on his death bed.

Madness

We were very close to national unrest at the time. So if law enforcement were paying more attention to certain subjects on SM, it was hardly surprising. There was a peace-keeping aspect to it. It’s not like it was a partisan sweep of years-old tweets.

“Other people get away with similar crimes” isn’t much of a defence, is it?

Yes that example is a fair point. It’s been very odd to see swastikas etc ignored by the Met in my home city.

She’s obviously a half-wit. Maybe a quarter-wit. A lot of racists are.

The civil unrest was caused by the perception of unfairness. They doubled down on it by only targeting one form of hate crime.
It wasn’t peace keeping. It was authoritarian.

Some hate crimes are excused.

She is the one that chose to put her family last and other families too, the ones she put at risk and will still be suffering the consequences now from her actions.

That is a consequence that she doesn't get access to her husband no matter if he is ill or not. Life continues on the outside.

I suspect many who get caught doing a whole range of crimes regret it. Would she have regretted it had she not been arrested?

If she hadn’t previously made racist tweets, hadn’t said (in writing to someone) LOL about this tweet getting her in trouble and hadn’t told someone (in writing) she planned to ‘play the mental health card’ if she got arrested then I don’t think she would have got a prison sentence as she could have feasibly framed it as a moment of madness and claimed genuine and immediate remorse.

Jamie Michael pleaded not guilty and got kept on remand until his trail so why does a Labour MP not get the same treatment?

https://www.south-wales.police.uk/news/south-wales/news/2024/august/three-men-charged-with-inciting-racial-hatred/

Gosh its almost like theres an easy way to avoid this, like not writing a disgusting racist tweet..?

See you in 12m Lucy. You ruined your own life there.

Well said. This is a complete miscarriage of justice.

You may not like but it’s a key factor in UK justice:

In UK law, deterring criminal conduct is a key aim, achieved by demonstrating the consequences of such actions through a combination of formal sanctions, informal social control, and specific measures like Criminal Behaviour Orders and Serious Crime Prevention Orders.

1. Formal Sanctions and the Criminal Justice System:

• Deterrence Theory:

The principle that crime can be prevented when potential offenders perceive that the costs of committing a crime outweigh the benefits.

Miscarriage of justice? Don’t make me laugh.

Tell that to the poor refugees who could have burnt to death in their beds.

You will find Lucy has been eligible for release on temporary licence since last November, but it’s been denied even though she is eligible. It is something that only category A prisoners are not entitled to, people that commit sexual, and violent crimes etc,

You would have to be a bit thick to go and burn refugees in their beds because some woman on twitter told you too

Doesn’t make her any less culpable.

I have found that already! She was jailed for 31 months in October. Should she have been released on licence a month later? That is not for us to decide. Eligibility doesn't automatically guarantee something.

Something she should've thought about before she made her choice. That is life.

You'll find that throughout history, people have done such things because someone with a bit of a platform has encouraged them to.

But she did commit a crime. She didn't just threaten to commit a crime, the tweet itself is a crime. She was sentenced in line with sentencing guidelines.

I do agree it's wrong that violent men, paedophiles, etc walk free and this needs looking at.