From: hex@unseen.ac.am 
  
 On 21/08/2025 15:24, Jethro_uk wrote: 
 > On Thu, 21 Aug 2025 10:38:12 +0000, Jon Ribbens wrote: 
 > 
 >> On 2025-08-19, GB  wrote: 
 >>> On 19/08/2025 11:56, Pamela wrote: 
 >>>> I was discussing Lucy Connolly's motives for pleading guilty. You are 
 >>>> addressing a different point. 
 >>> 
 >>> I think you are saying that she thought that, by pleading guilty, she'd 
 >>> be reunited with her husband and daughter more quickly. 
 >>> 
 >>> Isn't that more or less what is going to happen, anyway? 
 >>> 
 >>> She was arrested in August 2024 and held on remand. Trial would have 
 >>> ended in say May 2025, by which time she'd have been on remand 9 
 >>> months. 
 >>> 
 >>> If at that point she was found guilty, her sentence would have been 46 
 >>> months, of which she'd have served 18 months in prison (40%). 
 >>> 
 >>> Instead, she was sentenced to 31 months, of which she'll serve 40%, and 
 >>> be released after 12 months. 
 >> 
 >> Indeed - she was released today. 
 >> 
 >> https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yl7p4l11po 
 > 
 > I wonder if the terms of licence preclude being able to go around saying 
 > "I was wrongly convicted" ? 
  
 Of course not; that's free speech.  But if you pleaded guilty in the 
 first place, it's rather hard to do that convincingly. 
  
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