Back in April, David told you the truly sad tale of one young British mother who’d become a victim of Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s ‘Two Tier’ government.
Distraught watching the riots unfold in the aftermath of the brutal slaughter in Southport of three young girls by a crazed, knife-wielding second-generation immigrant Rwandan teenager named Axel Rudukabana, forty-one-year-old Lucy Connolly’s emotions spilled out in an angry tweet.
She had some time to cool down, thought better of it, and deleted the tweet a couple of hours later after walking her dog.
It wasn’t enough to save her.
She was rounded up by the government’s Starmtroopers eight days later.
…If the name Lucy Connolly rings a bell it’s because she was one of the 1,500-plus people arrested in connection with the social unrest which followed the July 29 Southport massacre of three little girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class. In fact, that’s not strictly accurate. Mrs Connolly, then aged 41 – she turned 42 in prison in January – played no part in the rioting, but a tweet she posted on the day when Elsie Dot Stancombe, Bebe King and Alice da Silva Aguiar were murdered by Axel Rudakubana was enough to get her arrested eight days later, and charged under Section 19 of the Public Order Act 1986, with publishing material intending to stir up racial hatred.
…Having posted the tweet around 8.30pm, Lucy took the family’s German pointer, Harley, for a walk, had a chance to think better of what she’d written in the heat of the moment, returned home and deleted the tweet. It must have been visible for less than four hours, but that was enough time for someone to take a screenshot.
In Starmer’s police state, someone is always willing to get the screenshot to send someone else to prison for thought crimes.
A bruising round through the courts followed. Lucy, still suffering from the horrific loss of her 19-month-old little boy, while caring for a disabled husband and a young daughter, was beaten into pleading guilty in the hopes of leniency from the court.
‘Injustice’ doesn’t begin to do what happened justice.
…The sentence Lucy Connolly received for a post on social media – 31 months – was greeted with general disbelief in legal circles. “Sickening”, “outrageous”, “a normally reliable judge was wildly out”, are a few of the printable comments. Although Lucy was given 25 per cent off for her guilty plea, the judge paid remarkably little heed to personal and general mitigations: Lucy Connolly was a first-time offender, a person of good character, a mother of a 12-year-old child, a carer for a husband with a serious blood disease; she suffered acute anxiety and was on medication as a result of huge personal trauma.
Two and a half years for a tweet.
She’s been in prison ever since, and has been denied visits with her little girl.
“Lucy’s case highlights the importance of ensuring that sentencing decisions are governed by law and principle rather than online outrage and public pressure”.
Absolutely! Selective Justice serves no justice.FREE LUCY CONNOLLY. https://t.co/0EQUqTQBQh
— Christina Jordan 🇬🇧 (@CJordanjb) May 15, 2025
Yesterday her appeal for early release was heard…and dismissed.
“When is Mummy’s letter coming?” “Is Mummy’s letter here yet, Daddy?” Over the past week, hope and excitement have been building in the Connolly household. Mummy was coming home! Ray Connolly has done his best to manage his 12-year-old daughter’s expectations, keeping the likely date of the Court of Appeal’s decision as vague as possible, but Holly wouldn’t stop asking. It was disappointing last Thursday when, after several hours of evidence, Lord Justice Holroyde said there would be no decision that day, instead a written ruling would be issued as soon as possible. Just after 10.30am today, on the 284th day of Lucy’s incarceration, “Mummy’s letter”, that much longed-for email, arrived. It was a hammer blow. Devastating. Lucy Connolly had lost her appeal for early release. The three judges had decided that a 31-month sentence for one very nasty, hastily-deleted tweet posted on the day of the Southport massacre by a woman of previously exemplary character was perfectly just and reasonable.
‘Nothing excessive about the sentence at all’ said the court of appeal judge.
…Her husband Ray, a member of Northampton Town Council, said he was “heartbroken” that the Court of Appeal had ruled that “there is no arguable basis on which it could be said that the sentence imposed by the judge was manifestly excessive”.
There seems to be an imbalance in the system determining who, why, and how one is released by Lord Justice Holroyde, for one thing.
Lucy Connelly’s appeal denied. Nazir Ahmed, convicted of raping a 9-year-old boy, freed 3 years early. Same judge: Lord Justice Holroyde. Lucy serves longer than a paedophile peer. This isn’t justice, it’s moral collapse in a wig. No wonder trust in the system is gone. pic.twitter.com/bwHTeRqcIk
— Peter Malcolm (@pmal5098) May 20, 2025
Boris Johnson said Starmer and his toadies are turning the UK ‘into a police state.’
Britain is becoming a police state under Sir Keir Starmer, Boris Johnson has said after judges rejected a bid by a mother jailed for a tweet about the Southport attacks to have her sentence reduced.
…The former prime minister told the Daily Mail: “Starmer’s Britain is losing its reputation for free speech and turning into a police state, where we must all learn to fear the knock on the door simply for something we say.
“The UK police are now making over 10,000 arrests every year for online comment, more than the police in Russia itself, and this judgment is yet another propaganda gift for Vladimir Putin.”
Hard to argue with that. The Prime Minister has his ‘we protect free speech fiercely’ lines down pat, but also that he absolutely will not accept incitement to harm other people. The catch is that the state will determine when your ‘freedom’ to opine crosses into ‘incitement.’
Unless, of course, it’s a Labour councilor who’s been in the streets for years calling for white people’s throats to be slit and such folderol.
That fellow never seems to make it to a courtroom.
So you’re telling me our Prime Minister doesn’t know about the Lucy Connelly case….LIE. All eyes now are on the Ricky Jones trial, if Lucy got 31 mnths for a tweet that she deleted and stated “for all i care” then Ricky Jones will be looking at a lot longer. He stood in front… pic.twitter.com/lK5ReiXE7N
— 🤍𝕁𝕆🤍 (@jomickane) May 20, 2025
Honestly.
Labour Counsellor Ricky Jones proves that the UK has a two tier justice system due to him being out on bail after saying the words below while making a throat slitting gesture motion at right wingers at a protest.
Unlike right wingers (like Lucy Connelly) who was fast tracked to… pic.twitter.com/VGch0VYQQL
— Grifty (@TheGriftReport) May 21, 2025
It’s most peculiar, almost as if Jones were a member of favored class, and the angry white woman a pariah.
Almost.
They’ve got a fundraiser going for Connolly, which is helpful for her family, as her husband lost his position in the recent Reform rampage through city councils.
I think the damage is already being done to what little faith Brits have that there is anything of ‘Britain’ left.
The system is rigged, and Britain’s parliament has been breached. Stephen Lennon, just released from months of solitary confinement for Contempt of Court. Grooming gangs of Pakistani Muslims have been given free rein for decades. When did hating children and those who try to…
— Probity of Titan Atlas (@71Rich7) May 20, 2025
And I am very sure Starmer doesn’t care.
