She was encouraging people to burn refugees to death while there was an angry mob of far-right terrorists trying to burn a hotel full of refugees down while blocking the fire exits.
She’s lucky to only get 31 months.
I hope we’re not going to see too many extremists on here pretending that she’s been jailed for mean words when she’s actually been jailed for inciting racial hatred and encouraging a racist mob to murder refugees!
You can’t even wish for someone to die in a fire these days.
I always find it strange when articles don’t state what was said, but only give you narrative along with quoted snippets. Why not just simply state what she said?
I’m sure i’ll be downvoted with cope and seethe for this, but 31 fucking months?
Two things, firstly, it’s the online ramblings of an idiot and is there any proof that anyone on earth actually took her words literally and she was the catalyst for attacks on hotels and arson?
Secondly, if we’re slapping down almost 3 years for this, yet Huw Edwards gets a 12 month suspended for literally sharing the most serious level of child porn, someone needs to take a look at sentencing balance on this.
Also, I’d be incredibly interested to see what sentence the guy guts who set the bus on fire during the disorder a few weeks before the Southport incident.
I’m not legally qualified, but I’d assume the length of a sentence like this is subject to some sort of challenge?
I’m sure people here will play verbal gymnastics with what I’ve said and spin it that i’m some sort of a right wing racist, but i’m talking objectively about how ramblings and hatred online can lead to 31 months in jail.
On a similar note, I saw a misconduct hearing for a Met Police officer this week which is coming up, an officer lied on vetting, had an association with a jihadist who operates for the islamic state and had followed and shown interest in radical muslim hate preachers online, yet this doesnt even warrant any sort of prosecution? Come on….
Edit – In fact, i’m sure there’s even an argument that this could embolden the right wing, under the guise of “look at what they do to us for facebook posts compared to people fiddling kids”. It’s a type of suppression that feeds into the crazy lunatics that “jews and muslims run the country and are trying to silence everyone through fear” that gains traction.
I’d argue some sort of suspended sentence, with conditions for her to meet (real) muslims and do community engagement/payback in the muslim community would be 10x more effective than locking her in with crackheads for nearly 3 years.
And as expected, 4 upvotes smashed down to -2 in the space of 30 seconds with no actual response or attempt to discuss what is obviously a big issue. Sums this country up all over.
Terrible thing for her to say but 31 months does seem a tad excessive.
I don’t think what she said should be legal, it’s clear incitement, but that sentencing is insane given some of the stuff you see people get suspended or very short sentences for.
An interesting part of this story that isn’t told in these articles is that her toddler child died due to the malpractice of a foreign doctor and it seems to have made her racist. Not that it justifies what she did but I think it provides some context.
This is broadly what the Looking Glass went down for isn’t it (but he only got 2 years, some of which he’d already eaten up on remand?). Have no issues with this as its down to the specific laws governing it but it does call into question some of the laws on other issues perhaps?
Great, so the tax payer will pay £40k per year all because she couldn’t rub together the two brain cells she presumably possesses.
Honestly baffling that this was one, her immediate response and two, something she wanted to make public.
Did the person, who didn’t write her tweet, but reposted it, end up with a longer prison sentence than her?
I suppose everyone who wants Singapore-style laws and enforcement in the UK should be happy about this demonstration.
People who have killed people while DUI get less time
This sentence could be reasonable … if we weren’t a country that hands out less time in prison for actually violent offences.
The same idiots who will moan about this will cheer someone going to prison for having a teams meeting about a climate protest.
>Opening the case, prosecutor Naeem Valli said Connolly also sent a message saying she intended to work her notice period as a childminder “on the sly” – despite being de-registered.
>Mr Valli added: “She then goes on to say that if she were to get arrested she would ‘play the mental health card’.”
>The court heard Connolly, who had no previous convictions, also sent another tweet commenting on a sword attack, which read: “I bet my house it was one of these boat invaders.”
>Another X post sent by Connolly – commenting on a video posted by the far right activist Tommy Robinson – read “Somalian I guess” and was accompanied by a vomiting emoji.
Wow, she is just vile.
I have no issue with this, however if we’re putting people in prison for tweets, can we also put that fucking guy in my hometown who killed a pedestrian whilst drink driving in prison too?!? Thanks
Seems mental I have heard worse in the street, at work and from the like of Nigel Farage. I would say the damage is caused by the social medial companies that magnify these opinions. She is clearly an idiot but feel prison should he for people who are violent in the real world.
The most interesting thing as well about this it what sort of precedent it sets for the future. I’m sure there’s plenty of people on bail awaiting court dates for anti-jewish hate speech in public during palestine marches, are they going to get the same treatment?
I mean, she got 31 months for social media posts, in Lancashire a recently elected councillor had been filmed chanting for Israel to ‘burn’ and was let off because he said sorry…
So far I think all convictions following the riots have been based on guilty pleas. The real test comes when those who pleaded not guilty come to trial. To secure a conviction the prosecution will have to build a case and prove the defendants conduct either incited violence or put a person in fear or took part in a riot which is even harder to prove. There are many defences to these ranging from “not me guv, you are mistaken” to “I was defending myself”. For those accused of social media offences could we some ECHR Article 10, Freedom of Expression defences which as I understand any prosecution has to take account of?
“Mass deportation now! If that makes me a racist, so be it” – Lucy Connolly, 2024
Good. She didn’t get this for “having an opinion” or “sending mean tweets”. She encouraged murder.
That is shocking, sure she encouraged riots and burning a building down.
This sentence is not appropriate at all.
All she did was post on social media encouraging it, how many people saw that post? How many people decided to burn a building down because of that post? Was anybody hurt by her social media post?
She should be punished but 31 fucking months for social media posts is insane, what the fuck. Actual rioters got less time than that.
Why do people calculate time in months only when a baby is very young and when a woman gets sentenced?
Sentence is ridiculous. It was a reactionary tweet to an event already happening. Yes wrong but criminal? FFS.
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She was encouraging people to burn refugees to death while there was an angry mob of far-right terrorists trying to burn a hotel full of refugees down while blocking the fire exits.
She’s lucky to only get 31 months.
I hope we’re not going to see too many extremists on here pretending that she’s been jailed for mean words when she’s actually been jailed for inciting racial hatred and encouraging a racist mob to murder refugees!
You can’t even wish for someone to die in a fire these days.
I always find it strange when articles don’t state what was said, but only give you narrative along with quoted snippets. Why not just simply state what she said?
I’m sure i’ll be downvoted with cope and seethe for this, but 31 fucking months?
Two things, firstly, it’s the online ramblings of an idiot and is there any proof that anyone on earth actually took her words literally and she was the catalyst for attacks on hotels and arson?
Secondly, if we’re slapping down almost 3 years for this, yet Huw Edwards gets a 12 month suspended for literally sharing the most serious level of child porn, someone needs to take a look at sentencing balance on this.
Also, I’d be incredibly interested to see what sentence the guy guts who set the bus on fire during the disorder a few weeks before the Southport incident.
I’m not legally qualified, but I’d assume the length of a sentence like this is subject to some sort of challenge?
I’m sure people here will play verbal gymnastics with what I’ve said and spin it that i’m some sort of a right wing racist, but i’m talking objectively about how ramblings and hatred online can lead to 31 months in jail.
On a similar note, I saw a misconduct hearing for a Met Police officer this week which is coming up, an officer lied on vetting, had an association with a jihadist who operates for the islamic state and had followed and shown interest in radical muslim hate preachers online, yet this doesnt even warrant any sort of prosecution? Come on….
Edit – In fact, i’m sure there’s even an argument that this could embolden the right wing, under the guise of “look at what they do to us for facebook posts compared to people fiddling kids”. It’s a type of suppression that feeds into the crazy lunatics that “jews and muslims run the country and are trying to silence everyone through fear” that gains traction.
I’d argue some sort of suspended sentence, with conditions for her to meet (real) muslims and do community engagement/payback in the muslim community would be 10x more effective than locking her in with crackheads for nearly 3 years.
And as expected, 4 upvotes smashed down to -2 in the space of 30 seconds with no actual response or attempt to discuss what is obviously a big issue. Sums this country up all over.
Terrible thing for her to say but 31 months does seem a tad excessive.
I don’t think what she said should be legal, it’s clear incitement, but that sentencing is insane given some of the stuff you see people get suspended or very short sentences for.
An interesting part of this story that isn’t told in these articles is that her toddler child died due to the malpractice of a foreign doctor and it seems to have made her racist. Not that it justifies what she did but I think it provides some context.
This is broadly what the Looking Glass went down for isn’t it (but he only got 2 years, some of which he’d already eaten up on remand?). Have no issues with this as its down to the specific laws governing it but it does call into question some of the laws on other issues perhaps?
Great, so the tax payer will pay £40k per year all because she couldn’t rub together the two brain cells she presumably possesses.
Honestly baffling that this was one, her immediate response and two, something she wanted to make public.
Did the person, who didn’t write her tweet, but reposted it, end up with a longer prison sentence than her?
I suppose everyone who wants Singapore-style laws and enforcement in the UK should be happy about this demonstration.
People who have killed people while DUI get less time
This sentence could be reasonable … if we weren’t a country that hands out less time in prison for actually violent offences.
The same idiots who will moan about this will cheer someone going to prison for having a teams meeting about a climate protest.
>Opening the case, prosecutor Naeem Valli said Connolly also sent a message saying she intended to work her notice period as a childminder “on the sly” – despite being de-registered.
>Mr Valli added: “She then goes on to say that if she were to get arrested she would ‘play the mental health card’.”
>The court heard Connolly, who had no previous convictions, also sent another tweet commenting on a sword attack, which read: “I bet my house it was one of these boat invaders.”
>Another X post sent by Connolly – commenting on a video posted by the far right activist Tommy Robinson – read “Somalian I guess” and was accompanied by a vomiting emoji.
Wow, she is just vile.
I have no issue with this, however if we’re putting people in prison for tweets, can we also put that fucking guy in my hometown who killed a pedestrian whilst drink driving in prison too?!? Thanks
Seems mental I have heard worse in the street, at work and from the like of Nigel Farage. I would say the damage is caused by the social medial companies that magnify these opinions. She is clearly an idiot but feel prison should he for people who are violent in the real world.
The most interesting thing as well about this it what sort of precedent it sets for the future. I’m sure there’s plenty of people on bail awaiting court dates for anti-jewish hate speech in public during palestine marches, are they going to get the same treatment?
I mean, she got 31 months for social media posts, in Lancashire a recently elected councillor had been filmed chanting for Israel to ‘burn’ and was let off because he said sorry…
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So far I think all convictions following the riots have been based on guilty pleas. The real test comes when those who pleaded not guilty come to trial. To secure a conviction the prosecution will have to build a case and prove the defendants conduct either incited violence or put a person in fear or took part in a riot which is even harder to prove. There are many defences to these ranging from “not me guv, you are mistaken” to “I was defending myself”. For those accused of social media offences could we some ECHR Article 10, Freedom of Expression defences which as I understand any prosecution has to take account of?
“Mass deportation now! If that makes me a racist, so be it” – Lucy Connolly, 2024
Good. She didn’t get this for “having an opinion” or “sending mean tweets”. She encouraged murder.
That is shocking, sure she encouraged riots and burning a building down.
This sentence is not appropriate at all.
All she did was post on social media encouraging it, how many people saw that post? How many people decided to burn a building down because of that post? Was anybody hurt by her social media post?
She should be punished but 31 fucking months for social media posts is insane, what the fuck. Actual rioters got less time than that.
Why do people calculate time in months only when a baby is very young and when a woman gets sentenced?
Sentence is ridiculous. It was a reactionary tweet to an event already happening. Yes wrong but criminal? FFS.