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West Northamptonshire childminder Lucy Connolly was jailed for 31 months after posting a tweet. Not only was the charge against her spurious and an attack on free speech, but the sentencing and the subsequent denial of bail have been politically motivated, “from the top,” by Keir Starmer himself.
As Nigel Bennett tweeted, “Nothing illustrates the scandal of British two-tier injustice more vividly than this case. The English legal system was once the template for the world; now, it’s a disgrace.”
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Lucy Connolly is a 41-year-old childminder and wife of West Northamptonshire councillor Raymond Connolly. She gained notoriety after posting a tweet on the night of the Southport massacre, which resulted in her being sentenced to 31 months in prison for stirring up racial hatred.
Several legal professionals consider her 31-month sentence inordinately harsh. Worse still, Connolly is being denied release on temporary licence, even while it’s granted to fellow inmates convicted of more serious crimes.
Her tweet, which was read 310,000 times, called for “mass deportation now” and included expletive language. The judge noted that her tweet was intended to incite serious violence and led to serious disorder and mindless violence. Despite her status as a mother of a 12-year-old child and a carer for her husband with a serious blood disease, the judge paid little attention to these factors during sentencing.
The injustice that has followed the Southport unrest was no inevitability nor an accident: it stemmed from deliberate political choices, The Spectator wrote. “Judges were refusing almost all bail applications connected to Southport, following explicit political direction from the top … Politics also came to influence the justice system through the widely repeated [and dubious] claim that the unrest had been caused principally by disinformation on social media.”
“Cracking down so hard on the riots of 2024 … may have inflamed emotions, not dampened them down. The case of Lucy Connolly exemplifies this point,” Spiked Online noted. Her case “feeds a narrative already ripe with examples that we have a two-tier criminal justice system, where ‘low-hanging fruit’ … are treated with disproportionate severity. Meanwhile, promised investigations into the sexual exploitation of children by South Asian men dribbles into the sand.”
In a Twitter thread, which we have republished below, The Stark Naked Brief provided a summary update on Lucy’s case.
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Lucy Connolly’s Case Hasn’t Gone Away – And Neither Has The Injustice
The Stark Naked Brief on Twitter, 9 April 2025
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Days ago, journalist Allison Pearson interviewed [Lucy Connolly’s] husband, Ray, who shared previously undisclosed details about Lucy’s ordeal. Here are some of the most harrowing – with some added context.
Lucy was one of more than 1,500 people arrested following the unrest after the 29 July murders of three little girls [in Southport] – Elsie Dot Stancombe, Bebe King and Alice da Silva Aguiar – by Axel Rudakubana.
She took no part in the riots. She wasn’t even near them. Her crime involved a tweet posted at 8:30 pm on the night of the murders. It read:
It was a savage, emotionally charged post. But “set fire to [x] for all I care” is very different to calling for outright arson.
She walked the dog, came home, and deleted the tweet. It was visible for less than four hours.
The next morning, as parents arrived to drop their children off at Lucy’s home-based childcare business, police showed up and arrested her.
Ray, her husband, had no idea what was going on.
The children Lucy had cared for included those from Nigerian, Somali, Jamaican, Bangladeshi, Lithuanian and Polish families – hardly the CV of a vehement racist.
A young duty solicitor commissioned a psychiatric report – but the assessment lasted just an hour, conducted over a video call.
Nothing like the thorough evaluation she received years earlier after the horrific death of her infant son, Harry, due to NHS negligence.
Then, things turned cynical.
The police and CPS released a public statement claiming Lucy had told officers she “did not like immigrants” and that “children weren’t safe around them.”
Except, she didn’t say that. The full police transcript read:
Lucy’s mother challenged the CPS [Crown Prosecution Service] directly. They eventually corrected the statement on their website. One would think she had a solid case for defamation …
Police also accused her of additional “racism,” which boiled down to Lucy once calling a friend “Pikey” after he’d jokingly called her a “Brummie c–t.”
All considered, she was formally charged under Section 19 of the Public Order Act on 10 August – “publishing material intended to stir up racial hatred.”
She applied for bail but was swiftly denied it.
And this is where double standards become too hard to ignore …
Last weekend, Labour MP and mayor Dan Norris was arrested on suspicion of rape, child sex offences, child abduction, and misconduct in public office. Within hours, he was released on conditional bail.
Lucy, in contrast, was held on remand for weeks and weeks – on suspicion of a non-violent crime. Reports conflict on the timeline, but all agree: she was held before she entered a plea and up to her sentencing.
Lawyers told Pearson they were “astonished” by the denial of bail.
Stuck in jail, Lucy faced a grim choice: fight and risk more months inside waiting, or plead guilty and get out quicker. She chose the latter. So, Ray gathered character references for her sentencing hearing. One came from a Nigerian-born doctor whose children Lucy cared for.
The doctor said, “I have never had any cause to doubt Lucy’s kindness …” Lucy even acted as a formal referee for her family members when they applied for British citizenship. “She personally drove to my home to drop these letters herself,” the doctor wrote.
But none – none – of this appeared to matter to His Honour Judge Melbourne Inman KC, Recorder of Birmingham, when he handed down Lucy’s sentence on 17 October – two full months after she was denied bail.
He made sweeping assumptions and politically-charged remarks during the hearing:
Inman also referenced “other tweets” that included “further racist remarks” – but failed to explain how.
The example cited came from a WhatsApp message Lucy sent on 5 August, the day before her arrest:
Then he claimed Lucy showed no sympathy to the Southport victims. But her infamous tweet included the line: “I feel physically sick knowing what these families will now have to endure.”
She voiced sympathy from the start – explicitly. It didn’t matter – 31 months in prison.
Compare that to another case Inman presided over: Haris Ghaffar, 19, who pled guilty to violent disorder after joining a masked mob that stormed a Birmingham pub last August. Ghaffar kicked at the door while staff and patrons barricaded themselves inside. He got 20 months.
Ray summed it up to Pearson, bluntly: “They want to use her as an example. Political? Maybe. But I think they just want to send a warning: Watch what you say – because if you don’t, the consequences could be horrendous.”
Contrasting her case to fellow non-violent Southport protestor Megan Morrison, a 27-year-old from Workington, Cumbria, makes Lucy’s punishment even more excessive.
Megan, too, was charged with intent to stir up racial hatred. Her post – uploaded to Facebook – showed a photo of violent disorder outside a Holiday Inn in Rotherham housing “asylum seekers” with a caption suggesting the same should happen outside another Hotel.
But when Megan was sentenced this March, she received a six-month jail term, suspended for 18 months. She was ordered to complete 160 hours of unpaid work and abide by a two-month nighttime curfew.
Judge Nicholas Barker accepted her remorse. She had apologised and withdrawn from social media. And unlike Inman, who used his hearings to lecture offenders about “diversity,” Barker kept it more grounded:
It seems some of our judges are capable of fair(er) justice. Others are simply not. Perhaps folks abroad looking on – maybe even some “liberals” [left-wing] – can now see why the British justice system is under such intense and growing scrutiny.
There’s simply too much inconsistency.
And this was the latest we heard about [Lucy’s] case:
She wasn’t the only one:
Featured image: Lucy Connolly
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[…] Lucy Connolly’s case demonstrates that two-tier injustice is politically motivated “from the top… West Northamptonshire childminder Lucy Connolly was jailed for 31 months after posting a tweet. Not only was the charge against her spurious and an attack on free speech, but the sentencing and the subsequent denial of bail have been politically motivated, “from the top,” by Keir Starmer himself. As Nigel Bennett tweeted, “Nothing illustrates the scandal of British two-tier injustice more vividly than this case. The English legal system was once the template for the world; now, it’s a disgrace.” […]
[…] Lucy Connolly je 41letá pečovatelka o děti a manželka člena rady West Northamptonshire Raymonda Connollyho. Proslula po zveřejnění tweetu v noci masakru v Southportu, který vyústil v její odsouzení k 31 měsícům vězení za podněcování rasové nenávisti. […]
[…] Lucy Connolly je 41letá pečovatelka o děti a manželka člena rady West Northamptonshire Raymonda Connollyho. Proslula po zveřejnění tweetu v noci masakru v Southportu, který vyústil v její odsouzení k 31 měsícům vězení za podněcování rasové nenávisti. […]
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Starmer ordered judges to show protestors the “full force of the law”. Here is a case that proves that it didn’t apply to left wing mobs, it applied only to patriots.
“Left-wing nurse who assaulted white Muslim walks free sparking new ‘two-tier justice’ row” – Caroline Leneghan.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14646049/Left-wing-nurse-assaulted-white-Muslim-walks-free.html
In the article –
“Her sentence is in sharp contrast to the scores of right-leaning protesters who have been given lengthy jail terms for public order offences during anti-immigration demonstrations after Southport.
One of the most severe sentences was handed to Lucy Connolly, a Northampton childminder, mother of a 12-year-old daughter and wife of a Tory councillor.”