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 simply wanted to know if you were relating a personal experience or whether you were posing a hypothetical scenario - I had no intention of asking you to prove it. If I had wanted to do that, I would have pursued further questions, such as when did you last see your friend and did you know her killer well.

Mumble12
What’s ambiguous about the comma?

I have already posted my thoughts on that. Presumably you think there are no grounds for her appeal then?

Which is what I said, you asked me if it was real or made up. I very clearly had said it was real.

I imagine you would've asked me further had I not produced the receipts.

So if your child died your instinct would be to wish death upon others?

sorry but no, you’re “gross”.

It wasn't clear to me and my phrasing didn't suggest you were lying.

I imagine you would've asked me further had I not produced the receipts

What receipts? You linked to a BBC news article - you haven't proved your relationship with the dead woman. For all I know you went to school with the woman but had not seen her for ten years when she was murdered. However, I wasn't interested in pursing the matter - strangely enough, the topic of this thread is not you.

The opposite of real is fake. You asked me if it was real or not. I said it was and proved it to be so.

I have never said it was about me, how odd of you to think that. Again, more deflection!

I think a natural response in this scenario is to wish the killer dead yes.

Doesn’t mean you’d ever do it, and definitely doesn’t make it right but I’d imagine it’s a perfectly valid feeling!

It would be a natural knee jerk reaction to lash out verbally, yes. Totally different to doing anything.

We can only hope we see at bit of common sense at her appeal.

Her child died 10 years ago and wasn't murdered. Knee jerk suggests it is involuntary and she had no control over it.

Feelings and emotions do not have a time scale on them. People can be triggered by anything at anytime.

Knee jerk is exactiy what it sounds like, a sudden reaction. She thought about it and then deleted it.

@whippy1981 have you ever experienced anything like the grief of losing a child?

I agree they do not. Behaviour is also a choice. Nope knee jerk is involuntary. She made a choice. This was not involuntary.

She thought about it before she posted. Then only deleted when she shat herself about what could happen to her.

Nope but I lost a friend through stabbing and her murderer then tried to burn down her house with her child inside so very much similar to what she was encouraging others to do and guess what I didn't call for her to be killed.

Trauma does not make you do this. She didn't lose her child through stabbing and encouraging others to burn children alive is not acceptable and in no way related to trauma. It is a choice behaviour.

As I said, I genuinely didn’t understand what you were saying. To me, the comma doesn’t change the meaning of that sentence at all.

In my uneducated opinion, based on the sentencing guidelines and her admission of guilt, I think the sentence is fair. That was the initial question asked by the OP and that’s my opinion on it.

She also laughed about it because it “bit me in the arse LOL” and thought about how to get out of it by “playing the mental health card”.

She, and the situation , aren’t as one dimensional as you (and the Telegraph) are trying to make it.

The killer? Yes. Completely random, unconnected people ? No.

This.

Look at the example Brianna Ghey’s mum sets. She lost her child in the most horrific circumstances and moves through life with grace, forgiveness and compassion.

She has been where LC has been and doesn’t wish harm to others.

Asylum seekers are fleeing war, famine, violence and bigotry. They carry with them their own trauma.

Why are we so focused on excusing this racist POS because of her trauma and ignoring how she demonised a whole group despite theirs?

Oh, it’s because they’re brown, isn’t it?

Actual crimes deserve punishment but somehow go unpunished. Paedophiles given 6m suspended sentences yet someone says something mean on social media and goes to prison. The overuse of the word racist has weakened it to the point of it having zero impact.

@Dumbdog I don’t think anyone is excusing her and her vile tweet. But there was no evidence whatsoever that her tweet incited any violence, it was a one off tweet that was deleted within 4 hours and she was not granted bail despite clearly bot being a threat to anyone.

She should never have pleaded guilty.

Agree that the sentencing guidelines are pathetic for many sexual crimes, but I would like to see them toughened, not other crimes’ sentences reduced.

Racism is an entirely justified word in this case.

A disturbed and disgusting man committed a heinous crime. People like LC called for violence against entire groups based on the (incorrect) assumption that the man was a foreigner here to seek asylum.

When you believe everyone from a particular race or ethnicity is a criminal based on the actions of someone within that group, you are a racist. In this instance it’s even worse because the boy was British born and the likes of LC targeted people fleeing persecution and war.

@Dumbdog I don’t think anyone is excusing her and her vile tweet. But there was no evidence whatsoever that her tweet incited any violence, it was a one off tweet that was deleted within 4 hours and she was not granted bail despite clearly bot being a threat to anyone.

She should never have pleaded guilty.

That’s a completely different debate.

Can you link me to your campaign I'll happily sign it and share it on my social media.

so?

There doesn’t need to be evidence it incited violence, the crime is ‘intention to incite violence’.

She pled guilty to the crime of intending to incite violence so clearly she believed herself to have had that intention.

When you enter a plea, you are expected to do so knowingly and truthfully, so presumably those defending her don’t believe such an upstanding woman deliberately deceived the court, do they?

She was an Ofsted registered childminder. She deserves everything she gets.

It the blatant double standard that really does my head in, and i know I’m not alone.

I’ve read worse things than that on Twitter, i must say.
The foul language that JK Rowling is regularly subjected to, makes me flinch.