…I do find this a very complex case with many factors to consider and one of those factors is the speed of it all…but that also seems to be her legal advisement that was at fault …
…this is the court transcript of Lucy’s appeal in May, I’m sure the original trial/sentencing one is available also but I’ll post the appeal one, which also refers back to the details that were considered in the original sentencing…
https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/...v-The-King.pdf
….anyway, one of the things that stands out for me is that it was said in court that, with her own experience and loss and grief…anything Lucy said or did didn’t show empathy for the parents of the Southport victims but rather, what she displayed was anger/hatred and was very specifically aimed in terms of race …I get that completely and ‘online incitement and misinformation’ at that time was a huge problem…surely though, one of the PTSD displays can be extreme anger/not an empathy but a rage and that rage could be directed and guided by environmental factors of other rage/emotions at the time that were being displayed …what Lucy said was awful and it wasn’t just one tweet from what’s in the transcript…and now she’s been ‘punished’ and served her full time in losing the appeal for an earlier release…so what now…?…surely the PTSD trauma is still there and hasn’t been addressed and with that, so the anger/rage will or could be still there also…wouldn’t it have been better to address that ‘cause’ because maybe she has never had the help needed to do that…I mean obviously I don’t know any factors other than what we know with the publicity of the case but it does feel that she was and probably still is a lady in crisis and that anger and grief in losing a child, will still be there…it does concern me as well, the strain on her mental health in ‘becoming a poster girl’ …no ‘team’ or ‘side’ or whatever seem to be considering her well-being before anything else…and it feels as though she still has a long journey to go in her possible PTSD….