Basil the Great on X - "On the left is Lucy Connolly, a mother who wrote an offensive social media post she later deleted. For this crime she was given 2 years and 7 months in prison. On the right is Mohammed Abbkr, he sprayed petrol on 2 people and set them on fire, his punishment? A hospital order for his mental health These sentences were handed out BY THE SAME JUDGE. We have an activist, insidious and corrupted judiciary in this country. Handing out suspended sentences to child abusers and multiple years behind bars for difficult opinions. The liberal establishment loves the politicisation of our justice system but it's pure poison for our country. And now it's yet another thing we must overhaul if we are to take our country back and restore order to our beloved home."
Winston Marshall on X - "Lucy Connolly was sentenced to 31 months for a tweet. Muhammad Faizan Khan was sentenced to 12 months for rape which caused a miscarriage whilst trespassing using fraudulent ID. What the hell has happened to our country"
Teacher sacked and branded 'Islamophobic' after he was reported over a Facebook post criticising Lucy Connolly's prison sentence says he has lost everything after the 'witch hunt' - "Simon Pearson has spoken out after being branded Islamophobic following his social media message about the imprisoned wife of a former Conservative councillor. Mr Pearson, a former employee of Preston College, was subject to an internal investigation following his comment that Connolly 'should not have been jailed' - after two Facebook contacts reported him... An internal investigation was launched following a complaint submitted by a Muslim representative of the National Education Union (NEU) at the school who alleged that the post was 'Islamophobic' and 'racially discriminatory'. Mr Pearson has said he apologised and also claimed to have provided evidence of his support for both Muslim students and asylum seekers... 'I was blindsided. Someone reported my private posts without a word to me. 'It felt like being snitched on in the dark - no conversation, no context, just condemnation. 'Twenty years of dedicated service, a spotless record, and deep care for every student - including many Muslim pupils I've supported and mentored - was wiped away. 'The accusation of "Islamophobia" became a label that no amount of truth could peel off. 'It was like living through a witch hunt. Once the accusation was made, the process felt less like an investigation and more like a verdict already written.'... 'I spoke out about real concerns, about the Manchester Airport attack, Southport, and the Lucy Connolly case. 'These are matters of public safety and justice. If we silence the freedom to express concern and ask questions, we're in serious trouble as a society. 'I've lost my livelihood, my reputation, and my peace of mind - not because I did something wrong, but because I dared to speak. 'If a teacher with a 20-year unblemished record can be sacked for expressing valid concerns shared by millions in their own time, then none of us are safe and something has to change so that no one else has to go through what I have.' Mr Pearso has now launched legal action at an employment tribunal, claiming wrongful dismissal, unfair dismissal, harassment and discrimination under the Equality Act 2010. Lord Young of Acton, founder of the Free Speech Union, told the Daily Mail he was 'shocked' by the decision to sack Mr Pearson. He accused the National Education Union of 'siding with the bosses rather than the workers when it comes to breaches of workplace speech codes'."
He apologised, yet was still sacked. There is a lesson here
Connie Shaw on X - "How many FRICKING times. Lucy Connolly pleaded guiltily precisely because she was told she’d be ‘home by Christmas’ as she’d have a reduced sentence. She was remanded in custody meaning she only had direct access to the poor legal advice of her duty solicitor. Not once would she, or her solicitor, expect to get 31 months for a tweet."
Connie Shaw on X - "Ricky Jones had the advise of an experienced criminal KC. Why? Because he was released on bail, pleaded not guilty and was aquitted as he should have been. 4 days before Lucy was arrested, Starmer said that people will face the ‘full force of the law’ and ‘will be held on remand’"
Starmer accused of hypocrisy over Lucy Connolly prosecution - "The Prime Minister supported the conviction of Connolly for inciting racial hatred over an expletive-ridden post on X after the Southport attacks, but it has emerged he had previously suggested that people who swiftly deleted offensive social media statements should not necessarily face criminal action... in 2013, when director of public prosecutions, he introduced guidance for prosecutors to consider a more lenient approach towards suspects who “swiftly” deleted social media posts and expressed “genuine remorse”... “Lord Hermer personally authorised this prosecution, in what looks like another example of two-tier justice bearing in mind the very long sentence given when compared to others who committed actual acts of violence.” Lord Toby Young, the director of the Free Speech Union, said: “Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, should have listened to the advice of Sir Keir Starmer, the director of public prosecutions, and urged the CPS not to bring charges against Lucy Connolly. “Sentencing her to more than two and a half years for a single tweet which she quickly deleted and apologised for has undermined public confidence in the criminal justice system, particularly when Labour councillors, MPs and anti-racism campaigners who have said and done much worse have avoided jail altogether. “The public have concluded – rightly – that it’s one rule for people on the Right and another for people on the Left.""
Two-tier justice is a national disgrace - "When Attorney General Richard Hermer told the BBC in June that it was “disgusting” and “wrong” to claim that Britain had a two-tier justice system, “offensive” to the country’s “crown prosecutors” and “courts”, he was attempting to bat away a wave of criticism that sought to make the point that justice in this country is no longer blind. It did not help his point that just a few weeks before, the Sentencing Council for England and Wales had sought to make this implicit bias explicit, suggesting that some offenders should receive more lenient sentences based on their ethnicity. Even this Labour Government felt compelled to pass emergency legislation to block the move. Perhaps the most visible manifestation of two-tier justice is the treatment of Lucy Connolly, the wife of a Conservative councillor jailed after posting on social media that people could “set fire to all the… hotels full of [asylum seekers] for all I care”. This was a stupid and reprehensible remark, fired into the void of social media with little thought as to its potential consequences. Ms Connolly entered a guilty plea, and was sentenced to 31 months’ imprisonment. Had she stood her ground, she might well have walked free. Ricky Jones, a Labour councillor who made a seemingly explicit call for violence – telling a large crowd that they needed to “cut” the “throats” of “disgusting Nazi fascists” and “get rid of them all” – was cleared by a jury yesterday. There is a clear difference between a guilty plea and a jury decision. The clear disparity in outcomes, however, will further fuel criticism of a system that appears to function very differently for those from the correct part of the political spectrum. And for the cynical, there is the question of the pressure placed on Ms Connolly by the prospect of being held on remand for an extended period. This does not help with the “community tensions” politicians are at pains to minimise. Nor does it help public acceptance of the justice system when visibly absurd outcomes mount up on a near daily basis... This is particularly so in comparison with what appears to be the preferred outcome of the Government: for critics to shut up and accept that the legal system produces the right outcomes. Not only does this fail to silence criticism, it serves to further undermine faith in the law. Criticism of Britain’s two-tier system will continue for as long as we get two-tier outcomes."
The Ricky Jones verdict proves free speech is a joke in two-tier Britain - "After Labour councillor Ricky Jones stood at a demonstration in Walthamstow decrying “disgusting Nazi fascists” and telling a crowd through a microphone that “we need to cut all their throats and get rid of them all”, a jury of Mr Jones’s peers cleared him of any offence... It is hard not to feel that the difference between the two cases is less a matter of law than politics. Lucy Connolly was denied bail as Sir Keir Starmer and the judiciary worked on their “shared understanding” that anyone expressing sentiments that could have encouraged last year’s riots needed to be made an example of. Sir Keir himself told the nation that individuals would be held on remand. The Home Office openly risked prejudicing trials by labelling those arrested, charged but not yet convicted as “criminals”. If there’s a lesson here, it may well be that people can say stupid things without the world collapsing around them. And that the public – which did not visibly respond to either exhortation – can be trusted, for the most part, to recognise the distinction between genuinely threatening language and idiocy, both on the streets and in jury deliberations. Unlike our American cousins, British people have only a very qualified right to free speech. While the human rights system appears to go out of its way to undermine attempts to control borders or crack down on crime, protection of speech is heavily caveated. And the British state makes full use of these carve-outs in its attempt to maintain its fragile grip on the country it has built. Its most important aim is to prevent tensions between groups. Speech that might inflame them is subject to stringent oversight and exacting scrutiny by officials terrified of what might spiral out from a frank examination of the country as it is. People on the Left, however, can speak with relative security. The result, in the words of Reform’s Zia Yusuf, appears to be “a country in which those who have the correct ‘regime’ political views can openly call for their political opponents to be brutally murdered, be filmed doing so, and face no criminal consequences”."
Lewis Brackpool on X - "Former Labour councillor Ricky Jones was filmed telling a crowd that Southport protesters should “have their throats cut.” He is out on bail. Meanwhile, Lucy Connolly has had her appeal denied — over a tweet she deleted within approximately three hours."
BBC News - Councillor cleared of encouraging violent behaviour : r/unitedkingdom - "From what I understand these people were basically coerced into pleading guilty. Told they would be held on remand until trial, which could be upwards of 18months. Advised they'd get a slap on the wrist, and then the judge throws the book at them. Meanwhile, this councillor was allowed out on bail. That's the issue, it's about why these people pled guilty, not necessarily the sentence they got"
Naturally, the left wingers were accusing people of making this up. Unfortunately OP was unable to find the source (below)
The punishment of Lucy Connolly | The Spectator - "‘Whatever I’d done, [the] police made it quite clear I was going down for this’, she says, ‘their intention was always to hammer me’. So it proves. She received only a perfunctory psychiatric evaluation, where she was not even asked about the loss of her child. After she expressed reasonable concerns about illegal immigration in a police interview, the CPS issued a misleading statement that Lucy ‘told officers she did not like immigrants’. Several legal professionals consider her 31-month sentence inordinately harsh, and we have learned about the effect her imprisonment is having on her family. In the absence of her mother, her daughter has started having behavioural issues at school. Her husband, Ray, who is ill, does his best, but is no substitute for Lucy. Crueller still, Connolly is being denied release on temporary licence, even while it’s granted to fellow inmates convicted of more serious crimes. A low risk to the community and a primary carer to her child, Lucy ought to be a prime candidate for this normal step in the rehabilitation process. But Lucy claims that a prison official told her probation officer she wouldn’t get let out with a tag ‘because of press and public perception’. ‘The whole system is corrupt’, she says. Still, blaming the system as a whole here strikes me as rather too charitable to those most responsible for what has happened to Connolly and others like her. Because the injustice that has followed the Southport unrest was no inevitability nor an accident: it stemmed from deliberate political choices. In the most crucial part of the exposé, Connolly says she was influenced to plead guilty as a result of being held on remand. Behind bars, struggling to speak to a solicitor and with a trial date potentially months away, Lucy became panicked and demoralised. ‘A guilty plea looked like the fastest way to put this nightmare behind her’, explains Pearson. She pleaded guilty in the knowledge she would get a discount on her sentence, expecting to be out by Christmas. In fact, having spoken to barristers, Ray Connolly was convinced that no jury would convict Lucy for a single horrible tweet. Indeed, this contention has been borne out by other speech cases following Southport that have come to trial. In October, former prison officer Mark Heath successfully argued that in his series of anti-immigration social media posts he simply was expressing his ‘strong views’, and was found not guilty of stirring up racial hatred. As for former Royal Marine Jamie Michael, in February the jury took such a dim view of the prosecution of this mild-mannered veteran over a YouTube video that they returned a not guilty verdict in just 17 minutes. Behind bars, however, Connolly never got to hear that she stood a strong chance of being found not guilty should she face a jury of her peers. So the question one has to ask is: why was she not granted bail? After all, this was anything but normal practice. Lucy was not a danger to the community. She was certainly not going to offend again, utterly shocked by the experience and having in any case deleted her Twitter account. And this was a first offence by a respected childminder of good character. But judges were refusing almost all bail applications connected to Southport, following explicit political direction from the top. Early in the disorder, a flinty-faced Sir Keir Starmer had told the nation: ‘The police will be making arrests. Individuals will be held on remand. Charges will follow. And convictions will follow.’ Politics also came to influence the justice system through the widely repeated claim that the unrest had been caused principally by disinformation on social media – ‘whipped up online’, in Starmer’s words. This claim has always been dubious at best, there being plenty of offline reasons for public anger. Indeed, arguably it was the authorities’ information vacuum about the Southport suspect that sparked so much mistrust, as the government’s terrorism adviser, Jonathan Hall KC, has recently said. This face-saving narrative about disinformation may well have pushed the justice system to come down harshly on online speech. The judge who sentenced 23-year-old care worker Cameron Bell – held on remand for a TikTok livestream in which she referred to migrants as ‘tramps’ – made this abundantly clear, saying: ‘The violence was fuelled by misinformation and misplaced far-right sentiment.’ In sentencing Connolly, Judge Melbourne Inman likewise drew a link between ‘social media’ and violence on the streets. Further heightening the zeal of the state response was Starmer’s repeated claim that the unrest was the work of an organised ‘far-right’, a ‘tiny, mindless minority’ who had arrived from out of town to exploit the situation. In fact, the majority of those arrested were locals, as later analysis of the arrest data by both the Telegraph and the Guardian has found. Misleading as it was, this narrative served to aggressively politicise the unrest. In this telling, those involved were not fellow citizens distraught at a tragedy – who might therefore be treated even-handedly – they were enemies within, to be crushed. Judge Inman made the political nature of Lucy Connolly’s case clear when he admonished her from the bench that ‘It is [a] strength of our society that it is both diverse and inclusive’. You don’t have to take my word for it that the Labour government is responsible for the state crackdown post-Southport – just take Starmer’s. ‘Crime has consequences’, he boasted in his rose garden speech near the end of August, adding, ‘I won’t tolerate a breakdown in law and order under any circumstances’. But if the prime minister can take personal credit for the Southport response, he must accept personal blame for the plight of its victims"
The rapists, paedophiles and terror offender given shorter sentences than Lucy Connolly - "A convicted child rapist avoided jail due to the prison overcrowding crisis in 2023. Rees Newman was jailed for just two years after being convicted of the historic rape of a child under the age of 14. A judge agreed to suspend his sentence for two years. When, months later, he breached the terms of his sentence by flying to Egypt without notifying officers and was hauled back in front of the court, he avoided jail a second time. The judge said: “The only reason you have escaped immediate custody today is because of the prison overcrowding crisis.”... A man who was convicted of seven charges of possessing terrorist information was sentenced to 18 months in prison, suspended for two years, in February 2024 – six months before the disorder that followed the Southport killings. Charles Cannon, who was described as having “a dangerous mindset”, collected documents on how to make homemade explosives and weapons. He spoke “enthusiastically of the stabbing of asylum seekers”. A court heard how he “repeated on many occasions anti-Semitic tropes” and “said he would kill, when speaking about people of colour”. A guide to making explosives was found on his mobile phone."
Libs of TikTok on X - "Lucy Connolly is currently serving a 31-month sentence for a post in support of mass deportations after a migrant went on a stabbing spree in the U.K. She was just denied temporary leave to see her 12-year-old daughter and sick husband. JD Vance was right again."
Connor Tomlinson on X - "Lucy Connolly has been refused Right of Temporary Leave to visit her husband and daughter because the prison authorities decreed she expressed “extreme views”. This has now been changed to “strong opinions”. This woman is being held in a cell not just for a deleted tweet, but for her refusal to submit to the worship of Diversity as our strength since. Lucy Connolly is a scapegoat being used by the government and judiciary to make you too afraid to voice reasonable objections to immigration and multiculturalism. She should be at home with her family."
Emily Wilding Davison🏴🇬🇧 on X - "PRESTON: Sadnam Singh, 28, & Navjot Singh, 26, who sexually assaulted a 14 YO old girl in her home while they delivered a TV unit, have been sentenced to 30 months each. One month less than Lucy Connolly, sentenced for 31 months for a deleted X post. There's no justice in UK"
Rape threat passenger ‘should not have shorter sentence than Lucy Connolly’ - "A man who threatened an air hostess with gang rape should not have received a shorter sentence than Lucy Connolly, the Conservatives have said. Chris Philp, the shadow home secretary, urged Lord Hermer, the Attorney General, to review the jail term given to Salman Iftikhar earlier this month. Iftikhar was convicted of racially motivated harassment and threats to kill after he threatened cabin crew on his first-class flight from London Heathrow to Lahore in February 2023. The recruitment boss, 37, told Angie Walsh, an air stewardess: “You will be dragged by your hair from your room and gang raped and set on fire.” He threatened to blow up the cabin crew’s floor in their hotel. He was given 15 months in prison for the offence. Mr Philp contrasted the sentence to that of Connolly, who received 31 months for inciting racial hatred in a post on X in the wake of the Southport killings. Writing to Lord Hermer, the shadow home secretary pointed to Iftikhar’s six previous convictions, including for common assault in 2004 and drink driving in 2008."
Mike Jones on X - "A grim but revealing case - one that shatters the illusions surrounding “integration” and lays bare the deeper, intergenerational damage mass immigration can inflict. Here we have a man who, by the usual liberal metrics, ticks every box of successful assimilation. He speaks fluent English. He dresses like everyone else. He’s adopted the booze-heavy, laddish culture of modern Britain. On paper, he’s integrated. And yet, faced with a vulnerable flight attendant, he doesn’t hesitate to play the racism card - before racially abusing her, threatening to have her gang-raped, and boasting that he’ll have her killed. Beneath the surface-level conformity is a worldview shaped not by British norms, but by something far older: an ethnocentric, clan-first psychology rooted in honour, revenge, and racial pride. That’s the quiet legacy of certain migration patterns. This is the same psychology we see in case after case involving grooming gangs. Men who see outsiders, especially white girls, as ‘fair game’."
William Dickens on X - "He has quite the past: “Iftikhar has six previous convictions arising from 15 offences, including common assault in 2004 and drink driving in 2008 and failing to stop and possession of cannabis in 2021.” Many of these convictions should have been enough to have him removed. I bet each time it was:
“This doesn’t represent him”
“He’s remorseful “
“He’s working on his issues”"
Emily Wilding Davison🏴🇬🇧 on X - "RIVINGTON: Michael Linfoot, 24, Callum Hesketh, 24, and Thomas Rae, 24, who lured a 15YO girl into a van, s3xually abused her & livestreamed it to their friends who turned up to join, have walked free. DC Booth of GMP said: "I hope today's result gives her a sense of justice""
Allison Pearson on X - "How were these disgusting abusers allowed to walk free? They sexually abused a 15-year-old girl and livestreamed it to their friends. Lucy Connolly got 31 months in jail for a tweet. This vile trio won’t serve a day behind bars. What’s going on @gmpolice ?"
Rob Boyd, Esq on X - "Lucy Connolly - 3 years for a tweet.
Peadophile Labour councillor - a free man.
Great Britain..."
Wes Streeting's former aide dodges jail after indecently exposing himself in front of girl, 13 - "Samuel Gould, 33, of Hornchurch, Essex, who was also a councillor in Redbridge, was seen by the 13-year-old girl masturbating in his parked car in Romford on March 8. Gould then followed the girl, who hid and knocked on nearby flats to try and get help"
Left wing logic: words speak louder than actions
Allison Pearson on X - "Lucy Connolly has been denied leave from prison on tag to see her child. Now, Shabhana Mahmood says 40,000 criminals to be tagged in sentencing law overhaul. How is this justice?"
Lucy Connolly has become a martyr to injustice - "What on earth is going on in the case of Lucy Connolly? The Northampton childminder and mother was convicted after posting an incendiary tweet in the wake of the Southport murders last year and jailed for 31 months, a sentence designed to demonstrate society’s abhorrence of whipping up the mob. That term was far too long for a single comment, however nasty, which was removed within hours. She is spending more time in prison than many offenders who have committed crimes of violence or sexual abuse. She has even been placed on a 23-hour lockdown, confined to her cell with no privileges for an offence that, given her good behaviour, could be dealt with in an open prison or with home detention. The Court of Appeal rejected a recent attempt to rule the sentence excessive and expedite Mrs Connolly’s release. The punishment for a crime is deprivation of liberty. It has been a long time since prisoners were subjected to additional, condign privation. Yet Mrs Connolly seems to have been treated especially harshly. Last week, she was manhandled by half a dozen prison officers and moved to a wing that houses the most dangerous inmates. Richard Tice, the Reform MP, visited her in Peterborough jail and reported that bruises on her wrists from handcuffs were still apparent. If the judiciary and penal system are being recruited to treat a particular prisoner harshly to cover up the state’s failings then that is unconscionable. Furthermore, if the aim is to discourage others from doing the same it is backfiring. Instead of being denounced for a crime she admitted she has become a martyr to injustice."
Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 on X - "It's being widely reported that Lucy Connolly, the young mother serving a severe political prison sentence for a deleted social media post, has been attacked by prison staff!"
The mistreatment of Lucy Connolly in prison is deeply sinister - "It comes to something when a senior British politician has to visit a person in prison, not only to show his support but to try to protect her against further harm. Yet that is exactly what happened when Richard Tice, deputy leader of Reform UK, met Lucy Connolly at HMP Peterborough on Tuesday morning. I had informed Tice that, last Thursday, Lucy says she was manhandled by up to six prison officers to a wing which houses the most volatile and dangerous prisoners. “Five days after the incident, the bruises from the handcuffs on Lucy’s wrists are still significant – yellow. It was obviously horrible what she went through,” Tice told me just after he emerged from the jail. “On Thursday, she was mistreated without provocation. Full force was used with no justification. She was starved of food, with no lunch or dinner, after the incident. She was denied enhanced accommodation to which she was entitled and they gave her, frankly, the Nutters Wild Wing – full of druggies and violent offenders.” Previously, Tice has been outspoken on the case of the Northampton childminder jailed for an exorbitant 31 months after posting one horrible tweet on the evening of the Southport massacre of little girls. Demonised as “Tory councillor’s racist wife”, Connolly became Sir Keir Starmer’s “political prisoner”, insisted Tice. She was made an example of to deter others from speaking out on illegal migration, and to distract from the Government’s own failure to provide information that they held about mass murderer Axel Rudakubana which experts say could have prevented the riots that Lucy Connolly was accused of inciting. Tice’s hour-long meeting in jail with a “calm, thoughtful, impressive”, although clearly shaken Lucy, confirmed his suspicions... When I started writing about Lucy Connolly’s case it was hard to imagine it getting any darker – well, it just did. Here we have a political leader, likely to play a senior role in this country’s next government, insinuating that the state – via prison officials – might try to silence and compromise a woman whom many think should never have been sent to jail in the first place... The 42-year-old was given 14 days on Basics – no TV, no privileges. She can’t even go down to the canteen to have her meals – food is brought to her cell. “You got 14 days on Basics, Lucy, that’s insane”, one of the Bronx girls marvelled. Funny how the asylum inmates are saner than the warders, isn’t it?... Lord Hermer, the Attorney General, approved the prosecution of Lucy, who should have got bail and then community service for a first-time offence committed online and swiftly deleted. Lord Hermer, bear in mind, was not minded to seek to increase lenient sentences given to sex offenders. Because Northampton housewives who collect Emma Bridgewater china, pose more of a threat to the public, obviously. Why was a woman of previously exemplary character, well-liked by many prison officers and prisoners whom she has helped and befriended, treated by HMP Peterborough as if she was a knife-wielding maniac? Meanwhile Rudakubana, who slaughtered three little girls, is allowed access to a kettle and boiling water he can allegedly throw over prison officers; no kettle for naughty Lucy Connolly... With just two months till her release date on August 21 (Lucy will have served 40 per cent of her sentence), it feels like the authorities want to provoke a violent reaction from their infamous inmate, as if to vindicate their cruel treatment of her. Or maybe to give them a reason to justify draconian conditions attached to her being freed? They need Lucy Connolly to stay demonised, to be the “far-Right” thug Starmer imprinted on the public imagination, the Myra Hindley of Twitter – how else are they going to explain the fact that Lucy has been denied the basic human rights afforded to every heinous and scary jailbird? Since November, Lucy has been entitled to apply for temporary leave on licence with Holly who is struggling without her mummy, and has been suspended several times from school where she vents her distress. (Ray, bless him, is struggling with a daughter going through puberty who becomes a teenager in a few weeks.) Despite repeated requests, and well-argued letters to the governor, Lucy has not been granted ROTL (Release on Temporary Licence) or home detention curfew wearing a tag. How can a woman of previously impeccable character, a childminder with glowing references from several immigrant parents who committed one “hate crime”, be denied those elements of rehabilitation normally considered so essential in a civilised society? Many within the system are uncomfortably aware that Lucy is being shockingly mistreated. According to Ray, one woman prison officer expressed distress about what was done to her on Thursday. Lucy’s probation officer said he was under the impression that, by now, Lucy and another woman scheduled for release, had been signed off as “Open” – living in a house on their own, getting ROTL to aid reintegration with their families, even allowed to have a small job in a caff or a charity shop. Again, according to Ray, the probation officer said he was concerned to discover that the Offender Management Unit at Peterborough had “knocked that plan on the head”. The reason given for forbidding Lucy a chance to enjoy the normal conditions leading up to release was “media interest”. Ian Acheson, the prisons expert, told me on a previous occasion that a prisoner’s notoriety should not have any impact on their right to temporary leave, or rehabilitation. But it’s not Lucy that justice officials are trying to protect from “media interest”, is it? Lucy is perfectly capable of eloquently telling her story to the press and the public, and that’s what they are afraid of. “I think they would keep me in here for a hundred years if they could, Allison,” Lucy said to me, half joking, half despairing. My fears for her grow by the hour. Huge thanks, then, are owed to Richard Tice for using his political power to protect Starmer’s political prisoner... Lucy told Ray on the phone that she had been refused the enhanced wing because she had failed security checks. Truly, we are living through what George Orwell wrote. Lie after obfuscation after lie so the rotten system protects itself at any cost. “The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears.”... What an indictment of Starmer’s Stasi Britain. Normal people like the Connollys have to rely on principled public officials to take a stand and protect them against an increasingly authoritarian state, which turns a blind eye to frankly racist Pakistani rape gangs (to protect its voter base); who got away with destroying the lives of tens of thousands of white girls, while harshly punishing a basically decent white woman who, in her sorrow and her rage, lashed out in a “racist” tweet."
Of course, if you're a "minority", you may not even go to jail because your children need you
Richard Tice calls for ‘Lucy’s law’ to free mother jailed for Southport tweet - "Lord Hermer declined to review “unduly lenient” sentences given to a rapist, a paedophile and a terrorist fundraiser, despite signing off on Connolly’s prosecution. The three criminals all received softer sentences than Connolly. At the time, Mr Tice claimed the findings suggested Lord Hermer considered a “nasty offensive tweet” to be a more serious offence than rape, paedophilia or terrorism."
Chris Rose on X - "In the UK we have:
3 Iranian “asylum seekers” arrested for plotting a terror attack
A knife crime epidemic
Shoplifting so bad that Greggs will put sandwiches behind the counter
1 rape reported every hour in London
Be assured, we’re all “safer” with Lucy Connolly behind bars."
Lucy Connolly to be guest of honour in Parliament after early release from prison for Southport social media post - "In prison, she was unexpectedly moved to a wing housing the most violent inmates, where she faces 23-hour lockdowns in conditions Tice called "inexplicable" for someone with an "immaculate record in prison". "I genuinely fear she is essentially a political prisoner, held effectively at the behest indirectly of the Prime Minister. It’s so inexplicable. If you can’t understand something, you’ve got to ask what else is going on?" Tice warned."
Engineer given half Lucy Connolly’s sentence for near-identical tweet - "Joseph Haythorne, 26, posted “Go on Rotherham burn any hotels with those scruffy b------s in it” on Aug 4 last year as violence erupted in the South Yorkshire town. At Sheffield Crown Court on Wednesday, the engineer from Surrey, who admitted inciting racial hatred, was jailed for 15 months. His jail term is less than half the 31 months handed to Connolly, a mother of one who is married to a Conservative councillor. Critics claimed the sentence was “a clear example of two-tier justice”. She was jailed in October last year after posting an online message on the day of the Southport murders, that read: “Mass deportation now, set fire to all the f---ing hotels full of the b------s for all I care, while you’re at it take the treacherous government politicians with them.”... Her husband, Ray Connolly told The Telegraph: “He can thank his lucky stars his partner isn’t a Tory councillor.” Chris Philp, the shadow home secretary said: “There are a lot of inconsistencies in sentencing. A rapist recently received only 28 months and the Attorney General, Lord Hermer, refused to allow that sentence to be reviewed. “It cannot be right that Lucy Connolly got a longer sentence for a tweet than someone convicted of rape.” Speaking about the sentence handed to Haythorne, Richard Tice, the Reform UK deputy leader, said: “Another ludicrous jail sentence. Fifteen months for a nasty offensive tweet lasting 17 minutes. “On this basis, if justice is consistent [and] not two-tier, then Bob Vylan could face being jailed for over five years for his vile singing at Glastonbury.” Lord Young, the general secretary of the Free Speech Union, said: “No one should be sent to prison for a tweet. This is not a good use of valuable prison spaces that should be kept for thieves, muggers, stabbers and drug dealers. “How can it be right that a Labour MP who repeatedly punched a constituent, knocking him to the ground, received a suspended sentence, but a 26-year-old should be jailed for 15 months for one ill-advised tweet? “It’s a clear example of two-tier justice and risks undermining public confidence in our criminal justice system.”... the judge chose to significantly reduce Haythorne’s sentence after hearing that he suffered from clinical depression. He also gave him credit for his guilty plea and other personal mitigation."
The hypocrisy in defending Lucy Connolly - "There is something profoundly depressing about the case of Lucy Connolly, the childminder sentenced to 31 months in prison for an inflammatory post on social media after the Southport attack last year and the riots that followed. Yet it does not really concern the issues of free speech claimed by her supporters, let alone her ridiculous claim that this person – who sought to stoke murderous arson attacks against asylum seekers in a newspaper interview after her release – was a political prisoner thrown behind bars by the prime minister. Instead, her lionisation shows how much the hatred promulgated by the far-right infects public debate while exposing the corrosive and toxic tribalism that pollutes our country... There is valid argument that Connolly should not have been sent to prison – like almost all other women behind bars in a creaking judicial system. Most committed non-violent offences far less serious than her provocative agitation, posing no threat to society, yet if handed custodial sentences are more likely to re-offend than if given good community punishments. A majority have mental health or addiction issues; many have experienced trauma such as domestic violence. They are more likely than men to self-harm while cooped up in cells – and like Connolly, often have dependent children who suffer when their mother disappears. Yet many similar arguments apply to male inmates – as proven by far more effective systems abroad, such as in Norway with its humane prisons, focus on rehabilitation and low recidivism rates. Our prisons are costly, overcrowded and often ineffective, stuffed with damaged citizens failed by care, health and school systems alongside the gangsters, killers and rapists who deserve severe punishment. We have the highest per capita jail rates in Western Europe. And as former Tory justice minister David Gauke said in his recent government review, this is partly due to “prison populism” as politicians push for tougher sentences. So guess who are the worst culprits today? Yes, the same right-wing headbangers who are complaining about Connolly’s sentence while demanding longer jail terms and more prison places, with Farage making puerile threats to be “the toughest party on law and order… this country has ever seen”. Similar hypocrisy lies behind the free speech furore as warriors of the hard right fulminate over Connolly’s supposed martyrdom. Yet most stay silent when people are branded antisemites for protesting atrocities in Gaza or demonstrating against the Palestine Action terror ban... Ultimately, it is playing with fire to flirt with the far-right in such an angry, broken, and tribalised nation."
Left wing logic - two tier justice to crush the "far right" shows the hypocrisy of the "far right", because if you want murderers and rapists to be jailed, you're a hypocrite if you don't want those who say mean things to be jailed too. And of course, the "solution" is to jail as few people as possible.
Clearly, being branded an antisemite is the same as being jailed and you cannot oppose one without opposing the other, or you're a hypocrite. Similarly, Similar hypocrisy lies behind the free speech furore as warriors of the hard right fulminate over Connolly’s supposed martyrdom. Yet most stay silent when people are branded antisemites for protesting atrocities in Gaza or demonstrating against the Palestine Action terror ban.sSupporting terrorist groups is exactly the same as saying mean things.
Lucy Connolly: I was Starmer’s political prisoner - "In an exclusive interview with Allison Pearson, the Telegraph journalist who led the campaign for her release, Mrs Connolly also accused the police of being “dishonest” in allegedly misrepresenting her views on immigration and threatened to bring a legal claim against them... “I think with Starmer he needs to practise what he preaches. He’s a human rights lawyer, so maybe he needs to look at what people’s human rights are, what freedom of speech means, and what the laws are in this country.” She described Sir Keir’s speech, which she complained had sealed her fate, as “very divisive”, adding: “It [the speech] was very much… if you are bothered about children being murdered, you’re Right-wing. You know, you’re far-Right.”... She believes she was singled out in part because her husband Ray, an engineer, was also a local Conservative councillor and that authorities wanted to make an example of her... In her interview with the police, she says she told officers she was well aware of the difference between legal and illegal immigration, but told The Telegraph that her comments made in the interview were “massively twisted and used against me”. She told officers: “I’m well aware that we need immigrants… I’m well aware that if I go to the hospital, there are immigrants there and the hospital wouldn’t function without them.” But her concern was for illegal immigrants who posed a threat to national security and a “danger to children”. Police and the CPS subsequently released a statement – later corrected – that Mrs Connolly had “told officers she did not like immigrants and claimed that children were not safe from them”. Mrs Connolly told The Telegraph she was now considering taking legal action over the statement put into the public domain."
