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/

No sympathy. Nothing in her background makes it ok for her to tweet such hate. People like her caused so much damage.

"Let’s hope you never experience ptsd or trauma from your child dying that might trigger you to make an irrational and stupid mistake that you later regret.
Real criminals are being treated better than her,"

What is it with people excusing cuntish behaviour on mental illness? She saw a psychologist, and she is in prison not a mental health facility.

I've no doubt she sees the tweet as a mistake. She probably realised this the same evening which is why she deleted it.

But she is an adult and Is accountable for her "mistake". In this case, letting the mask slip and publicising her abhorrent views.

By the way she is also a "real criminal". She broke the laws of the land. Some of us may not agree with this law but must respect the will of the people who voted for the parties who introduced it and the Tories who could have repealed it but didn't.

I read the article and had a lot more sympathy for her than before. I don’t condone what she did but I do thing the sentence very harsh.

I also think it’s completely wrong for her to be locked up whilst shoplifting in broad daylight and clear money laundering operations are going on daily and nothing is done. My farm has been broken into 3 times in the last 12 months and nothing has been done.

She deserves everything she gets. There's always a sob story.

According to the judge who sentenced her:

• it wasn't the first racist tweet she'd sent
• in WhatsApp messages after she laughed about it and said that if she got into trouble for it she'd deny sending it and "play the mental health card"

Allison Pearson has somewhat misquoted the judge's sentencing remarks, which are published online

Interesting article that conveniently misses out the ‘playing the mental health card’ and the fact she’d tweeted racist things before. Or that it was viewed hundreds of thousands of times before it was deleted.

Personally I feel ill at the poor children in her charge, she could’ve been saying anything to them.

Whilst yes she’s been made an example of to an extent, the fact she’s been jailed but paedophiles haven’t, doesn’t mean her crime didn’t happen or that she shouldn’t be punished.

She has paid a heavy price for a moment of madness.

I agree, it seems disproportionate to me.

That article skips some essential bits.

Like her laughing the tweet “bit her on the arse LOL”, previous racist tweets (not the “joke” with the friend), that she planned to “play the mental health card”, that she planned to keep childminding on the sly after not being licensed, that she had 10k followers and her tweet had 350k views and most importantly that she’ll only serve 40% of her sentence which is about 12 months.

‘Anyone who thinks it is fair has not read the article’

Exactly that - it is possible to believe that what she did was appalling while also believing that she doesn’t deserve the treatment she has received. And it’s possible to change your position too - I was very firmly of a mind to have her dealt with very harshly. Now I think she has been treated abhorrently.

More about her previous racist social media posts

But in a world where people serve less time for actual violent offences, I think her sentence is nuts

agree

However, through another macro lens she's an unfortunate nobody who is, indeed, being made an expensive of so the rest of us didn't all pile on government and cause even more unrest.

Agree with this, they do have to be fairly heavy handed to maintain law & order.

People do that to Jews and Israelis all the time.

True dat

Honestly, I think if she hadn’t had the attitude towards her crime that she did, if she behaved in a way that showed she was genuinely sorry about what she did, she wouldn’t have got such a long sentence. I’m guessing it was her shitty attitude, arrogance and refusal to accept she was in the wrong. Bragging that she was going to continue to childmind despite being deregistered probably didn’t help her case either.

Massive sympathy to her husband and her child- especially her child. But Connolly caused this. Not the justice system.

I think while we are allowing men who have raped children to walk free, anyone who is currently in prison for writing tweets should be released.

How does a non entity like her get 10,000 followers?!

She’s quite well known in the local community for one.

For two she liked to tweet racist things so assume she attracted some other idiots that way.

She did an awful & very stupid thing but in a world where you can hit & run & kill someone & avoid jail time or view child abuse & avoid jail time her sentence is disproportionate.

Probably not as bad as kids who’ve actually been abused and watched their offender walk free. You can’t compare words to actions and no one will convince me what she’s done is worse than people such as Huw Edward’s who’s still free and walking the streets along with many others. The punishment definitely doesn’t fit the crime here.

I wouldn’t mind her sentence if it was comparable with others . There are worse crimes getting suspended/ no jail times . Hugh Edward’s the most obvious one . Two tier Keir , yes she was made an example of .

I think her sentence was far too harsh especially in the context of what male sex offenders including those that abuse children get, also in a period of trying to have fewer inmates what the benefit to society is having her in prison is, it's not like she had much of a sm presence. IMO, community service would have been a much more appropriate sentence

I’m waiting patiently for Ricky Jones’ trial.

I read the article. Wouldn't have done if I had realised that it was written by Allison Pearson, as her she has her own personal agenda as we all know.

I'm very sorry that this woman lost her son. That's tragic. But there are plenty of other bereaved parents who don't inadvertently find themselves tweeting racist stuff online and inciting others to set fire to buildings full of innocent people. I really don't see how this kind of behaviour can be attributed to PTSD.

And the fact that she had diverse customers paying her to look after their children does not prove in any way that she wasn't racist.

Inciting violence and racial hatred are not behaviours that we should tolerate from anyone in the UK, regardless of who the perpetrators are. I'm glad that she was sentenced accordingly.

You’re not wrong, but that’s not how sentencing works or the context it’s given in. The only context is the sentencing guidelines for the specific crime and level of culpability she pled guilty to, which had a range of 2-6 years in prison. You could argue the extra 7 months above the minimum was harsh I guess.

I fully agree that Huw Edwards should have been jailed and I was surprised he wasn’t. It doesn’t mean Connolly shouldn’t have been jailed though. All these horrendous people who avoid jail/get stupidly short sentences for what they’ve done doesn’t mean people like her shouldn’t be sentenced to prison time, even a sentence as long as she got.