LUCY Connolly, who was jailed for a deleted social media post after the 2004 Southport terror attack, has spoken out after documents revealed that her case was fast-tracked by the Attorney General Lord Hermer.
She told Patrick Christys Tonight on GB News: “I requested the CPS files through a SAR request, and I finally got hold of the files in the last week or so, having been told for months that they’d lost them and they’ve been destroyed and they haven’t got them.
“I got the documents and obviously went through them, and to be honest, Patrick, it just confirmed what I already knew. It’s quite shocking, really, some of the stuff that was written in it.
“The government had a hand in the courts, and yet they maintain that the judiciary is independent. That’s not what these documents tell me.”
She added: “All the documents between the police and the CPS are signed off by counter-terrorism at the CPS, and the dialogue between the police and the CPS from them about the Attorney General charging and the CPS telling the police that they’ve asked for an emergency charge, my charge has gone through an emergency charge because I wasn’t charged until around about 9pm I think it was on the Friday evening.
“This email trail shows that by about half past nine the following morning on a Saturday, my prosecution had been signed off by the Attorney General. It says that it was an emergency fast-tracked case, and then obviously, I was put in front of a magistrate’s court the following morning, about 10:30 in the morning.”
Asked if she believed her prosecution was politically-motivated, she said: “100%. It was to stop me seeking good legal advice. It was to put me on the back foot and panic.
“I would never have the opportunity to sit round a table with a good legal team and discuss my options…I put in two bail applications. They were both denied for no real reason. There was no legal reason to remand me…
“This pile of documents also shows that the second bail hearing lasted two minutes from start to finish.
“So when my solicitor went into the court, into the bail hearing, to put in an application for bail for me, the second time around, it’s logged. You have court logs for every kind of hearing and it says, start 11:17, end 11:19.
“Now to me, in two minutes, you have a job to say someone’s name, address and date of birth. So either my solicitor didn’t put a good bail argument forward for me, or he wasn’t allowed to put a bail up argument because he was shut down.”