"Lucy Connolly: Political Prisoner or Racist?"
The Jon Gaunt Show
Jon Gaunt
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🗓️ 20 May 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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"Lucy Connolly: Political Prisoner or Racist?"
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Lucy Connolly lost her appeal today. She’s now serving a 31-month sentence for a single offensive tweet—a tweet she deleted just three hours after posting it, during the emotional fallout of the Southport murders.
Her defence argued she was traumatised, both by the brutal incident and by the loss of her own child.
The controversial tweet allegedly incited anger and contributed to riots near a migrant hotel. With limited legal support, Lucy Connolly pleaded guilty, advised by a duty lawyer to accept a lesser sentence. But was justice really served?
Many now claim she was used as a political example—a warning to others. Meanwhile, it’s been revealed that Keir Starmer may have withheld information about Axel Rudakubana, the man behind the Southport killings—information that could have helped prevent the riots.
In a time when the UK faces a prison overcrowding crisis, and more dangerous offenders are being released early, the case raises serious questions:
• Is Lucy Connolly a political prisoner or simply being held accountable? • Is there a two-tier justice system in Britain? • Who should police public speech—the courts, or the police?
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Lucy Connolly, political prisoner or a racist, or maybe both. |
| 0:12.9 | What's your opinion? |
| 0:14.6 | Lucy Connolly lost her appeal today. |
| 0:17.4 | She's now serving 31 months or complete her 31 month sentence for a single offensive |
| 0:26.2 | tweet. A tweet that she did delete just three hours after posting it during the emotional |
| 0:33.2 | fallout of the terrible Southport murders. Her defence argued she was traumatised, both by the |
| 0:40.4 | brutal incident, and by the loss of her own child 14 years earlier. Do you believe her? The |
| 0:46.4 | controversial tweet, they say, incited anger and contributed to the riots near a migrant hotel. |
| 0:55.5 | Where do you stand on this? |
| 0:57.0 | Let's get talking. |
| 0:57.9 | It's the John Gort Show. |
| 0:59.4 | Good evening. |
| 1:00.6 | So, a grieving mother, a deleted tweet, a prison sentence of 31 months. |
| 1:09.2 | So there's the first question. |
| 1:10.5 | Was the sentence right for the amount of time, |
| 1:15.7 | sorry, for what she did? Listen, I'm not going to argue. The tweet was offensive, |
| 1:21.9 | but she took it down. So should she have gone to prison at all? |
| 1:28.9 | We're going to discuss that. |
| 1:32.6 | And likewise now, has she not been in there long enough when you compare her to other people? |
| 1:35.7 | Is Lucy Connolly a threat to public safety? |
| 1:40.9 | I want your comments. |
| 1:42.1 | Is she? |
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