They Take These Things More Seriously In The U.K.
Don’t worry that you’ve never heard of Lucy Connolly; no one else had either— until he outed herself as a vicious racist and xenophobe and was sentenced to 31 months in prison this week. Oh, being a vicious racist and xenophobe doesn’t get you to prison in the U.K. But stirring up racist and xenophobic violence on Twitter does. Connolly has a day school and her husband is a Raymond Connolly a Conservative councillor (like a city councilman) for West Northamptonshire.
Jessica Murray and Tom Ambrose wrote that “In the expletive-ridden message she said ‘set fire to all the fucking hotels full of the bastards for all I care’ and concluded ‘if that makes me racist so be it.’ The post was later deleted but police established it was available for at least three and a half hours. In September, she pleaded guilty to writing a social media post intending to stir up racial hatred and was sentenced at Birmingham crown court on Thursday… The court heard that the day before Connolly was arrested, she sent a WhatsApp message saying the ‘raging tweet about burning down hotels has bit me on the arse lol.’ She also said she would ‘play the mental health card’ if arrested, and would deny responsibility for the post if asked.”
Her sentence was handed down on the same day that a Staffordshire man, convicted of rioting in connection with post-Southport unrest, was jailed for six years and 17 weeks.
Simon Orr, 39, of Tamworth, was sentenced at Stafford crown court on Thursday, after pleading guilty to charges of riot and assaulting a female police officer, police said.
Orr, who was the third defendant in England to admit a charge of riot in connection with disorder around the country, also sent a WhatsApp message encouraging others to turn up during an attack on a hotel in Tamworth on 4 August.
The police said: “Orr was arrested on 12 August and originally denied his involvement, saying the protest was peaceful.
Which leads us to ask, why is Trump still walking around free, running for president and where the hell is Merrick Garland when his country needs him? Thank goodness for Tanya Chutkan, who’s unsealing Jack Smith’s new evidence today. She ruled that the high public interest in the document outweighs Trump’s demand that she keep it hidden until after the election and rejecting Trump’s argument that releasing the explosive material constitutes election interference. In fact, she said, suppressing the evidence— which would typically be released as part of public court proceedings— would be the actual political meddling.
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