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/

I mean people literally started rioting and trying to burn down buildings with refugees in them because a fake news account on twitter told them an asylum seeker carried out the Southport attack.

There's no shortage of thick, violent racists in this country.

Then that’s on the person who committed the crime, not on the person who told them to do it

Did you feel the same about the men jailed in 2011 for Facebook posts inciting riot?

Incitement is a crime.

It wasn’t worthy of a prison sentence, prisons are full!
maybe community service and/or a fine. NOT a prison sentence

As has been pointed out, what she said was a crime.

She pleaded guilty to "the offence of distributing material with the intention of stirring up racial hatred".

Please never sit on a jury

She did the crime so she should do the time but she should be treated fairly and so if she meets the criteria for the two overnight releases a month ( which I believe is the current position) then she should have that.

I am pretty sure those examples exist. There have been many wild times.

I would expect the police to do a visit and give a warning. They wouldn’t have bothered I can assure you.

I would be shocked if they were jailed for multiple years for that.

I assume you live in a well and aren't aware of the circumstances surrounding her crime. During a period of civil unrest, she sent one of a series of racist Tweets urging people to set occupied buildings on fire. Rioters attempted to set an occupied building on fire.

We can't be sure that her Tweet, which received over 300k views, was directly responsible for the murder attempt but I'm sure it contributed.

She pled guilty and received a low sentence for the crime, to serve 40% of it. She got off lightly.

I understand that inciting racial hate isn't a worthy crime in your opinion, but the law thankfully disagrees.

I’ve never posted a tweet I regret. We don’t all do it.

The Telegraph are another level of right wing these days. If you read the comment sections regarding any topic, a poster will always comment on immigration. Even if it's totally irrelevant! I think that the female journalists and people like Isabelle Oakshit may one day regret supporting the far right direction when it moves from people of colour to women losing their rights.

Anyway, this woman deserved to be jailed in my opinion. It's an insult to suggest that because she lost a child she had just cause. Many many women have lost children. Remember that people were so whipped up that they did actually set fire to hotels! Wherever these people have come from, I couldn't imagine wanting them burned alive. I save that sort of hate for Urfan Sharif.

Didn't her husband describe her as a bored housewife? 😂 Where to begin on the levels of wrong!

She did commit a crime but not all crimes deserve a prison sentence.

Where did I say she didn’t commit a crime?

The law doesn’t.

The law thinks some are worthy of prison sentences and others are worthy of police protection.

Yes.

Could you explain further what you mean? As far as I'm aware she pled guilty to a crime and received a sentence in line with the crime. That's the judicial system ie the law.

I mean that there are people, thousands of people, parading the streets with violent rhetoric who get police protection for their right to do so.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/metropolitan-police-officer-swastikas-context-propalestine-march-london-protest-b1148698.html

The person with the Swastika was arrested.

I think that the sentence of 31 months was disproportionate to the offence, however despicable what she said was.
There are many death threats made on line and the perpitrator is thrown off social media generally or given a non custodial sentance, the website 'Terf is a slur' collected a few.
If we jailed everyone who made violent threats online then we would need a lot more jails.
If she alone was singled out for a long jail term then there is no fairness in the law.

Terf is a slur

Had not thought of a social media ban. That would have been much more appropriate.

Thats sick as fuck, but i suppose It shouldn't be surprising given that she used the murder of 3 children to incite racial hatred.

People's real pain is nothing but a tool for her.

She had a history of posting racist material and a week after the Tweet she supposedly regretted said this:

the former childminder sent a WhatsApp message joking the tweet to her 10,000 followers had “bitten me on the arse, lol”.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/lucy-connolly-sentence-tory-councillor-husband-twitter-post-b2630930.html

So what. People say offensive stuff on sm all the time, it does not warrant a prison sentence.
A fine or community hours would've sufficed.

Yeah this is the article I'd read