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/

Alison Pearson's article was a load of shit. She didn't name any 'astonished' lawyers she just said there were.

I’m sure you are aware of the convention that lawyers do not criticise judges publicly, hence the anonymity.

So no evidence whatsoever that legal minds are 'astonished'.

Well I doubt the Telegraph would allow a completely unsubstantiated claim into print.

There's no evidence to back it up. I thought no one trusted the press anymore.

Isn't it free speech that she says she is guilty? She was free to say not guilty but her freedom of speech let her say she did it. Is that not her freedom?

@whippy1981 of course it’s her choice to plead guilty or otherwise but the contention is that she was ill advised by the duty solicitor to do so.

It was good advice given the evidence. She had an online history of racism, called for people to be murdered, thought it was funny that it caused a stir and said she'd use the mental health card.

You have a right to believe she was ill advised. Someone with legal knowledge in their role believes differently as they advised her differently.

Would you advise all those who commit a crime to plead not guilty?

@Maitri108 wss there evidence of her persistently “calling for people to be murdererd”? I haven’t seen this but happy to be corrected - obviously it is this that is central to the case. Racism is not illegal on its own.

I think everyone accepts that her tweet was beyond horrific but do you really not have a shred of sympathy for a mother who lost a child in horrendous circumstances and then loses their mind over news of children being stabbed and murdered? She had been diagnosed with PTSD so personally I think accusing her of playing the mental health card is deeply unfair.

What has her lengthy prison sentence achieved versus a suspended sentence or community order ? It is certainly grist to the mill for the far right, particularly in contrast to the sentences of a number of men for sex offences including paedophilia.

Have you placed a report for malpractice about this solicitor?

She said herself she would play the mental health card. Those were her words not Maitri108's.

She lost her child due to issues in the NHS. Nothing to do with stabbings or other ethnicities. She made a choice. Her trauma does not make her do things like that.

I didn't say that she 'persistently' called for people to be murdered. Surely you've read her Tweet?

She had a reduced sentence due to her personal circumstances and the fact that she pled guilty, so it was taken into account. Her sentence wasn't lengthy, it was short for the crime she committed as explained above.

I didn't accuse her of playing the mental health card, she said that's what she'd do if arrested.

Hate crime is illegal.

Honestly. Calling for people to be murdered?! It was a knee jerk nasty comment, deleted.

The overreaction to this crime is batshit.

Who the hell are you to say how her trauma effects her? If you’ve never been in her shoes then you have no right to comment on that.

She wrote a Tweet calling for occupied buildings to be set alight.

"Who the hell are you to say how her trauma effects her? If you’ve never been in her shoes then you have no right to comment on that."

Quite right. No one else can possibly understand or comment on her trauma. On that basis we could excuse any criminal behaviour because of "trauma".

Seriously get a grip.

By your argument incels claim they suffer "trauma" from repeated sexual rejections. None of us have any right to comment because "we've never been in their shoes"

Yes as I say, a knee jerk nasty comment that was then deleted. Ive seen loads of crap like this online. If we locked away all the keyboard warriors there'd be no space for the violent offenders with a history of violent offending unlike this poor woman who didn't have any previous at all

Trauma doesn't make her do that. If she can control her racism in public then it was a choice.

Trauma doesn't make you do that! It is an excuse. Oh I've suffered trauma BTW! My behaviour is my choice. If it can be controlled around all other people then it is a choice. She chose it.

She's a 'poor woman' because you agree with her. Like Pearson you think she's a political prisoner.

She wrote the Tweet during a racist riot, it was viewed over 300k and people set light to occupied buildings. It's therefore in no way comparable to your average swivel eyed racist nonsense.

Many people managed not to write racist hate speech inciting violence during the riots. I can only imagine that those saying it's easily done don't have clean hands.

are you seriously comparing incels to a woman who’s child died. How on earth can you compare the two? Not getting laid is a bit fucking different to your child dying.

"Not getting laid is a bit fucking different to your child dying."

Who the hell are you to comment on their trauma? You've never been in their shoes.

At least be fucking consistent...

You are actually revolting 🤮

You’re not even making sense

"You are actually revolting" says the person excusing a woman advocating for people to be burned alive due to "trauma".

The justice system routinely takes into account people "trauma" which was a mitigating factor in sentencing as set out in the judges comments.

Presumably this was possible even though the judge was not a mother who had lost a child.....