Lucy Connolly appeal Rejected

valdavi

Misinformed because the person guilty of the Southport murders was born in this country and she was passing the fake news that he was an asylum seeker on & adding her idea about burning the hostels down.

Apologies, I misunderstood what you were saying.

Madness really to talk of burning down hotels.

I abhor what she posted and have no problem with her being punished for it, but the sentences others get does or should have a bearing. Consistency in application of the law and subsequent punishment is vital. What if theft from a shop incurred a greater sentence for one person than someone else beating up the security guard? Men in possession of thousands of photos of babies and children being raped and abused are being given suspended sentences and that is appalling.

She certainly posed a risk to others when she was posting her vile encouragements to burn hotels with people in them. She may well say she’s sorry and changed her views but such entrenched racism is so unlikely to have disappeared from her belief systems.
If we let people out of prison because the criterion was they pose no risk to others- it’s unlikely we’d need a prison building program. Do the crime and serve the time

Misinformed because the person guilty of the Southport murders was born in this country and she was passing the fake news that he was an asylum seeker on & adding her idea about burning the hostels down.

You are not at odds with me. I know people in those hotels. They were terrified because of people like her.

I seem to be at odds with lots of people on this.

I think what she wrote was awful.

Good, what she posted was wicked, and was a encouragement to morons to do just that.
I don't know either how some posters have sympathy with her saying burn the Bastards for all I care. Let her serve the rest if her sentence.
What sentences others get has no bearing on hers.

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£93,000 now. A lot of people feel she has been punished enough. As her husband is ill and she has no income, they are in danger of losing their home.

Magenta8

Poisonous person. I hope she has learned her lesson. It beats me how anyone can feel sympathy for her, I do fell sorry for her 12 year old daughter though.

People who post here have Grandchildren and some share the views of Connolly.

In what way were people "misinformed " please?

Even the people commentating on the article in The Telegraph were disgusted by her comments and her desire to " play the mental health card"

In our regional newspaper today a woman with 80 previous offences for shoplifting etc has just been let off serving a prison sentence even though she hurled dreadful racist abuse at staff in the shop.

AFAIK Lucy Connolly had no previous offences.

I can see no purpose in keeping her in for many months more. She has surely learned her lesson and her young daughter must be very distraught as will her ill husband be.

Remember when so called Comedienne Jo Brand said she wished the woman who threw milkshake over Nigel Farage had thrown battery acid over him. That was a truly disgraceful thing to say but she got away with it. Almost a national treasure. This really is two tier policing.

I'm with you, keepingquiet. Crowdfunding for someone convicted of a crime? Surely there are more worthy causes?

Wyllow3

It is a 31 month sentence, so 40% of that time is 12.4 months. She will be out in just over 4 months. The judgment was made on the basis of no new evidence. After a string of racist abuse posts she ended up saying

“Mass deportation now, set fire to all the f**** hotels full of the b***** for all I care… if that makes me racist so be it.”

She should serve those remaining months, poisonous and murderous racist hate spread on the internet have no place in a decent society.

I'm aware there is an opinion that "hurty words" are somehow not significant because they are tweets not spoken aloud, but they do matter just as much, imagine if we allowed it and it became commonplace to threaten each other in this manner?

What message does it give to young people to permit it?

I think she deserved that sentence, just because she's middle class and said sorry does not excuse her.

There is too much racism around and she should be made an example of

It is a 31 month sentence, so 40% of that time is 12.4 months. She will be out in just over 4 months. The judgment was made on the basis of no new evidence. After a string of racist abuse posts she ended up saying

“Mass deportation now, set fire to all the f**** hotels full of the b***** for all I care… if that makes me racist so be it.”

She should serve those remaining months, poisonous and murderous racist hate spread on the internet have no place in a decent society.

I'm aware there is an opinion that "hurty words" are somehow not significant because they are tweets not spoken aloud, but they do matter just as much, imagine if we allowed it and it became commonplace to threaten each other in this manner?

What message does it give to young people to permit it?

Poisonous person. I hope she has learned her lesson. It beats me how anyone can feel sympathy for her, I do fell sorry for her 12 year old daughter though.

Yes that is a bit disconcerting isn't it keepingquiet.

It wasn’t just one tweet, though that’s the one that gets reported.

She had sent out numerous tweets in the months before that one, inciting people to violence.

She relied on being anonymous online, and for the things she was goading others to do.

It’s hard to know how effective her tweets were and what actions they provoked, but they were deliberately designed to get others to carry out violent acts.

FromMSM news
Connolly, of Northampton, was arrested on August 6, by which point she had deleted her social media account, but other messages which included further racist remarks were uncovered by officers who seized her phone.

So not just one tweet then. She is only going to serve 40% of her sentence anyway so no need to expend much sympathy on her.

The fact that people have contributed so much to a convicted criminal says everything I need to know about what kind of crazy country I'm living in...

I'm with Smileless2012 on this. Other people's sentences are irrelevant - there's always the 'whataboutery' in cases like this. I have absolutely no sympathy for her at all.

I agree GrannyGravy but that doesn't diminish what Lucy Connolly has done.

Stephen Yaxley Lennon aka Tommy Robinson is to be released four months early from prison.

In my opinion he is more of a threat to society than Lucy Connolly.

I don't have any sympathy for her. Awful woman.

valdavi

She has been made an example of & I do feel a sneaking sympathy for her.
It's a shame none of her friends & family got her to take that tweet down urgently, before 10,000 people had shared it, been misinformed & had dangerous ideas put into their heads.

The whole affair is awful and I agree she is being made an example, people do need to understand the consequences and actions relating to posts on the internet. Maybe she’s learned the hard way, maybe not.

Other offenders being given lenient sentences doesn't mean she should be released any sooner.