Why was she given terrible legal advice to begin with? Why plead guilty?
NeilSilva93 on
They’ll be rolling out the red carpet for her on GBeebies and the like until people get fed up with her. She doesn’t sound like the brightest bulb in the box.
Bal-lax on
Sounds like Richard Tice visiting her in prison was to hand deliver her an application form for Reform UK
willNffcUk on
Lucy will be a very lucky woman she will be more talked about on GB news then their lord and savior Donald trump 🤣
charmstrong70 on
……and due to start a new career as a presenter on Gbeebies
Luke_4686 on
How so many people on this thread can have a sympathy for an individual that called for a hotel of people to be set on fire is beyond me. She incited violence. The fact it was online rather than in ‘real life’ is irrelevant. She plead guiltily and the appropriate sentencing guidelines applied.
sunnyangel01 on
Took me a while to process that this wasn’t about Lucy Letby.
DoubleXFemale on
Idk, she’s definitely racist, but I don’t feel like saying that “X can do Y *for all I care*” is actually inciting X to do Y.
terrordactyl1971 on
Good. The sentence was far too harsh for an Internet post.
FlyingGarbanzo on
these days, you say your english, you’ll get thrown in jail! these days
RuneClash007 on
It’s crazy how people don’t understand that twitter is a public platform, inciting for people to burn down hotels on twitter would be similar to standing on a stage and shouting it into a megaphone.
If you’re encouraging mass murder, you deserve to be punished for it
_L_R_S_ on
The deep irony of this case was reading posts for many years where Islamic preachers had been jailed for preaching hate either in person or online. That same law that applied to them applied to her.
People called for them to be left languishing in jail and the key thrown away.
She is then jailed for the same acts, and it looks like for less time served.
But people scream “two tier justice”.
When the irony is that’s exactly what they’re asking for.
They also confuse the “act” – a tweet with the reach of that tweet and the potential consequences.
“All I did was drop a brick your honour, and it was a small one”.
“Yes, but you dropped it from a motorway bridge as cars were passing under at 70mph”
“I regretted it as soon as I’d dropped it though, and I don’t think it actually hit a car”
DevilsAdvocate1662 on
Apparently freedom of speech only applies if you don’t offend anyone
Low-Opportunity3359 on
She should be out just in time for Tommy Robinson’s Free Speech Festival. I wonder if she’ll be a headline act along with that union flag dress schoolgirl.
mark71hy on
Like Tommy all of a sudden freed – I think Trump pressure in that meeting has something in this as he knows that free speech is being punished here
pipwill on
Watch her join all the other right wing grifters, enraging rubes for money
Temujin-of-Eaccistan on
Terrible miscarriage of justice that she’s served any prison time just for voicing an offensive opinion in the aftermath of a horrendous terror attack.
And no, she did not “incite violence”. She said “burn them all down for all I care”. By definition that’s a statement of indifference used for emphasis and not an active call to do it.
wishbeaunash on
Wild and rather scary to me how many people have tried to make her into some kind of cause celebre, honestly.
I think there are valid criticisms of how we police social media in this country, but she seems about the worst possible poster child for that criticism.
Unless your position is that it should just be entirely impossible to use social media to commit a crime (which would be absurd), how is attempting to incite arson and mass murder *during an ongoing violent pogrom which is attempting arson and mass murder* not something which should be a crime? It’s an insane thing to defend, frankly.
Royal-Student-8082 on
Her and the Union Jack dress girl can coheadline Tommy Robson next Rally.
Own-Professor3852 on
Isnt this about time? What a total miscarriage of justice this poor woman as had to endure..
kcufdas on
Comparing sentences is always a tricky path to go down. If we look at her punishment in isolation then I hope she has had time to reflect and has come out of the experience with some clearer views of things.
Posting with a GB news clip is an odd way to present it. A channel which uses marginal political hopefuls instead of trained journalists and has repeatedly breached Ofcom rules of impartiality
NorthernSoul1998 on
Oh wow, lots of people in this thread who think calling for burning down hotels full of people is OK now. What is happening to this country?
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Of all the “injustices” that our justice system doles out, this is one that I can live with.
She fucked around and found out.
Good. It’s still crazy to me that a single deleted tweet gets you a greater sentence (31 months) than [assaulting a 6-year-old girl, a woman and a police officer](https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/thug-ran-up-girl-6-35583178) (19 months).
This is one for r/slownewsday.
“Criminal released after serving sentence”
She has served 40% of her sentence and is eligible for early release
I strongly recommend reading her sentencing notes from the judge to see how she went to jail after breaking the law brought in by Tories in 2015. https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/R-v-Lucy-Connolly.pdf
Why was she given terrible legal advice to begin with? Why plead guilty?
They’ll be rolling out the red carpet for her on GBeebies and the like until people get fed up with her. She doesn’t sound like the brightest bulb in the box.
Sounds like Richard Tice visiting her in prison was to hand deliver her an application form for Reform UK
Lucy will be a very lucky woman she will be more talked about on GB news then their lord and savior Donald trump 🤣
……and due to start a new career as a presenter on Gbeebies
How so many people on this thread can have a sympathy for an individual that called for a hotel of people to be set on fire is beyond me. She incited violence. The fact it was online rather than in ‘real life’ is irrelevant. She plead guiltily and the appropriate sentencing guidelines applied.
Took me a while to process that this wasn’t about Lucy Letby.
Idk, she’s definitely racist, but I don’t feel like saying that “X can do Y *for all I care*” is actually inciting X to do Y.
Good. The sentence was far too harsh for an Internet post.
these days, you say your english, you’ll get thrown in jail! these days
It’s crazy how people don’t understand that twitter is a public platform, inciting for people to burn down hotels on twitter would be similar to standing on a stage and shouting it into a megaphone.
If you’re encouraging mass murder, you deserve to be punished for it
The deep irony of this case was reading posts for many years where Islamic preachers had been jailed for preaching hate either in person or online. That same law that applied to them applied to her.
People called for them to be left languishing in jail and the key thrown away.
She is then jailed for the same acts, and it looks like for less time served.
But people scream “two tier justice”.
When the irony is that’s exactly what they’re asking for.
They also confuse the “act” – a tweet with the reach of that tweet and the potential consequences.
“All I did was drop a brick your honour, and it was a small one”.
“Yes, but you dropped it from a motorway bridge as cars were passing under at 70mph”
“I regretted it as soon as I’d dropped it though, and I don’t think it actually hit a car”
Apparently freedom of speech only applies if you don’t offend anyone
She should be out just in time for Tommy Robinson’s Free Speech Festival. I wonder if she’ll be a headline act along with that union flag dress schoolgirl.
Like Tommy all of a sudden freed – I think Trump pressure in that meeting has something in this as he knows that free speech is being punished here
Watch her join all the other right wing grifters, enraging rubes for money
Terrible miscarriage of justice that she’s served any prison time just for voicing an offensive opinion in the aftermath of a horrendous terror attack.
And no, she did not “incite violence”. She said “burn them all down for all I care”. By definition that’s a statement of indifference used for emphasis and not an active call to do it.
Wild and rather scary to me how many people have tried to make her into some kind of cause celebre, honestly.
I think there are valid criticisms of how we police social media in this country, but she seems about the worst possible poster child for that criticism.
Unless your position is that it should just be entirely impossible to use social media to commit a crime (which would be absurd), how is attempting to incite arson and mass murder *during an ongoing violent pogrom which is attempting arson and mass murder* not something which should be a crime? It’s an insane thing to defend, frankly.
Her and the Union Jack dress girl can coheadline Tommy Robson next Rally.
Isnt this about time? What a total miscarriage of justice this poor woman as had to endure..
Comparing sentences is always a tricky path to go down. If we look at her punishment in isolation then I hope she has had time to reflect and has come out of the experience with some clearer views of things.
Posting with a GB news clip is an odd way to present it. A channel which uses marginal political hopefuls instead of trained journalists and has repeatedly breached Ofcom rules of impartiality
Oh wow, lots of people in this thread who think calling for burning down hotels full of people is OK now. What is happening to this country?