On July 29th last year, tragedy struck: three young girls were murdered in a grotesque act of violence by Axel Rudakubana. Amid the grief, fear, and chaos, one woman, Lucy Connolly, a 42-year-old former child carer and wife of Conservative councilor Ray Connolly, posted a rant on X blaming migrants.
Her tweet, posted in frustration before she deleted it three-and-a-half hours later, read: “Mass deportation now, set fire to all the fucking hotels full of the bastards for all I care...if that makes me racist so be it.”
It was knee-jerk and reactionary. So naturally, the British state gave her thirty-one months in prison.
That’s not a typo. Thirty-one months. For a tweet, she deleted soon after. This is in a country where serious crimes get you a slap on the wrist.
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