The message is clear: free speech is fine - unless youâre on the wrong side - Kelvin MacKenzie
OPINION: When justice becomes political, ordinary people like Lucy Connolly pay the price, says Kelvin MacKenzie.
There were two faces of justice which caught my eye over the last 24 hours. One was white and one was black.
The white never got anywhere near justice. The former childminder Lucy Connolly, 42, had gone to the Appeal Court to have her scandalous 31-month sentence for a nasty tweet reduced. The three judges threw out her appeal.
Their decision makes me wonder if it’s Connolly’s right-wing politics the judges object to as much as the content of a tweet. Supposing Connolly had been of the Left and had said that the Reform HQ should be burned down with Nigel Farage and Richard Tice inside, would the courts have handed out such a sentence? You know the answer to that.
Let’s be honest: tweets do not matter. They are of little account. Gone in a heartbeat. There is no evidence they do lasting damage. Did the prosecution bring forward any witnesses to say they had read the Connolly tweet and decided to burn down an asylum?
No, of course not. Nobody takes them that seriously. They are not a rallying cry. They simply reflect a burst of anger, gone in the time it takes to send. Then it’s off to pick up the kids and do the shopping. No lasting damage.
The message is clear: free speech is fine - unless you’re on the wrong side - Kelvin MacKenzie
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On occasions - and it happens to me - your views will hit a chord and literally hundreds and thousands will feel you have said something they agree with. Just as likely, it will be a damp squib.
The judges aren’t allowed to use X and therefore do not understand the transient nature of this media. They think it’s like a printed paper with the reporters’ stories and columnists' views having gone through legal and editing scrutiny. It isn’t.
This was just an ordinary person giving vent to her fury at illegal migration. I’m sure she was not alone that day. We can’t all be liberals. This Appeal Court decision was a social media version of a judge saying, Who are the Beatles? It’s a tech and political world of which they know not.
One of the three judges was Lord Justice Holroyde. He came to my notice a couple of years back when he cut the jail term in half - from 5.5 years to 2.5 years - of Labour’s Lord Ahmed for sexually assaulting a boy and attempting to rape a girl.
So, incredibly, Holroyde believes a peer’s sexual assaults are less serious than a tweet from a mother. Where do they dig these people up?
Connolly won’t now be released until August because the Appeal Court does not believe the sentence was “manifestly excessive”. Were you to ask the majority of the public, those would be the two words they would use about the sentence.
You see, ordinary people are used to seeing the old boy down the road being beaten senseless by a thug and then the judge, on hearing of mental health issues, care home issues, employment issues, giving the thug 12 months. The public wanted the sentence for that thug to be “manifestly excessive”. They didn’t get it.
OPINION: When justice becomes political, ordinary people like Lucy Connolly pay the price, says Kelvin MacKenzie.
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But when it comes to a figure like Connolly, they think, quite properly, that two years suspended will be fine. But judges are never on their side. Especially if they have Starmer breathing down their necks.
I said at the start of this piece that there was a white and black face to justice.
The other face came at Newcastle Crown Court, where Daniella Kankam-Adu, 19, from London, was given a suspended sentence after being caught with 25 kilos of cannabis worth £225,000 when landing at the city’s airport from Canada.
She was a mule and, yes, she was a dupe. Incredibly, she claimed - and the judge accepted it - that she carried the drugs because she was trying to put a deposit together for a house.
Kankam-Adu could try working like everybody else. The judge clearly felt sorry for her. Why is beyond me.
She may be young, but she knew the risks, while Connolly is not young and actually didn’t know the risks from judges who bizarrely believe a tweet is as dangerous as a fist.
So, it’s clear. Bring 25 kilos of hash into the country, damaging a generation’s life chances, and you will walk free. Send out a tweet and watch the Establishment decide you are evil personified.
Two different and increasingly divided and unfair worlds.
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