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Lucy Connolly is FREE: Tory councillor's wife who was jailed for 'racist' tweet during Southport riots is released from prison after nine months behind bars
UK Daily Mail ^ | August 21, 2025 | Dan Woodland

Posted on 08/21/2025 3:09:14 AM PDT by C19fan

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To: SaveFerris

Ping!


21 posted on 08/21/2025 5:56:23 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (If [mortals] are so wicked with religion, what would they be without it? —Benjamin Franklin)
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To: ronnie raygun

She was jailed in the wak of nationwide riots against mass immigration and right now there are numerous demonstrations and raising of flags all over the country to register displeasure with the government, and Reform are winning practically every election since Labour came to power last 6ear.


22 posted on 08/21/2025 7:10:08 AM PDT by sinsofsolarempirefan
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To: Bob434

Which country is the butthole of Europe now?


23 posted on 08/21/2025 7:34:56 AM PDT by Colt1851Navy (What was wrong with riminalNixon?)
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To: C19fan
Obviously, Britain has a two-tiered, anti-White justice system:

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24 posted on 08/21/2025 7:47:01 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolutioan?)
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To: ronnie raygun

All the people who said, F*** this S***, I’m outta here,” left for the U.S. generations ago.


25 posted on 08/21/2025 8:03:23 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (US spending on Ukraine over 3.5 years exceeds the all military aid to Israel over 77 years. - Grok)
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To: A strike

“Why did she plead guilty ??!”

Only she can answer that question.
Possibly because she thought she would get a lesser sentence if found guilty by jury.
Undoubtably it was a mistake.

She was released, btw, only because she has served her time (40% is all one needs to serve, with good behaviour) not because of any clemency on the part of the authorities.


26 posted on 08/21/2025 8:16:53 AM PDT by Mr Radical (In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.)
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27 posted on 08/21/2025 9:25:26 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: C19fan

Is it beginning to look as if we made a mistake defending England in WWII...


28 posted on 08/21/2025 11:52:36 AM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is rabble-rising Sam Adams now that we need him? Is his name Trump, now?)
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To: SuperLuminal

No, they are waking up. We were one election away from the same fate.


29 posted on 08/21/2025 11:54:41 AM PDT by stevio (Fight until you die!)
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To: Mr Radical

I’m believing that you know that this case is in the U.K.

“Possibly because she thought she would get a lesser sentence if found guilty by a jury.”
Sorry but that doesn’t make sense, I actually don’t think you meant that.

In any case that was a ridiculously stupid calculation considering that there would have been a 90% likelyhood of exoneration with a REAL jury of her peers. ESPecially since this is political tyranny brought about by the UK government against free speech.

also, not saying it isn’t, but don’t know if your assertion of 40% if time served is all one needs to serve in the British system of ‘justice’ is correct


30 posted on 08/21/2025 6:45:59 PM PDT by A strike (f the UK/MI6 effort to sucker the US into perpetuating their delusion of British world importance)
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To: A strike

Apologies: you are correct, that was garbled.
What I was trying to say is that, in the UK, if you plead guilty up front then you are likely to get a lesser sentence than if you plead not guilty and the case goes to trial - and you are then found guilty by your peers, be they magistrates or juries.
She has given interviews since her release in which she claims that she was given poor legal advice and missled and/or pressured into pleading guilty.

The 40% time-served is correct for the UK, certainly for her particular “offence”. Provided she was deemed to have followed all the rules for “good behaviour” while inside, this was the date she could expect to be released.

Similar rules are applied even for violent crimes including murder! Yes, so much for British “justice”!
But as we know, using the criminal underclass as a means to terrorise the ordinary, honest, and decent, is a tactic common in left-wing regimes.


31 posted on 08/23/2025 12:27:52 AM PDT by Mr Radical (In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.)
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To: Mr Radical

Thanks.
Certainly is that the UK ‘justice ‘ system is just as fk up as our bullSchiff plea ‘bargain’ system.
She sure as hell got bad advice if they told her that she would have a more than 10% chance of conviction with a jury of her (British) peers.


32 posted on 08/23/2025 2:21:18 AM PDT by A strike (f the UK/MI6 effort to sucker the US into perpetuating their delusion of British world importance)
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To: Mr Radical

I seriously doubt that the British police state would have actually allowed Mrs. Connolly a real trial by her peers .


33 posted on 08/23/2025 2:29:51 AM PDT by A strike (f the UK/MI6 effort to sucker the US into perpetuating their delusion of British world importance)
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