Protected Perpetrators: How Racist Pakistani Men Target White Women and the Justice System Lets Them

How Britain's courts punish tweets, not terror threats - as long as the offender is from the “right” community.

Fifteen months for threatening to gang-rape and set alight a Virgin Atlantic stewardess, versus 31 months for posting an angry tweet about asylum seeker hotels - this is the reality of Britain's warped justice system today. While a Pakistani man with a history of offences makes terroristic threats delivered face-to-face to a named victim earn him barely over a year behind bars, a White woman, of previous good character, deleted social media post - however ugly - lands her nearly three years in prison.

Salman Iftikhar

A millionaire recruitment boss, jailed for just 15 months after threatening to gang‑rape and set alight a white Virgin Atlantic stewardess, Angie Walsh, in front of her terrified colleagues and his own crying children. During a drunken rampage on a flight to Heathrow, Iftikhar also threatened to blow up her hotel room, named the hotel precisely, and warned of consequences if authorities intervened, citing his "contacts."

Revealed: Millionaire boss who threatened Virgin stewardess

Father-of-three Salman Iftikhar, 37, was flying in first class when he launched a vile tirade of abuse towards Virgin Atlantic staff on a flight from London Heathrow to Lahore.

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This wasn't a moment of madness. This was a sustained, calculated act of violent misogyny and racial hatred. He called the stewardess a “white Welsh c***,” threatened her life, her body, and her safety, and did so while his own children sobbed in fear.

And yet, for these terroristic threats, Salman Iftikhar received just 15 months in prison. This is despite him having a history of offences.

Lucy Connolly

A former childminder and the wife of a Conservative councillor, Lucy Connolly was sentenced to 31 months in prison for a single social media post on X (formerly Twitter). The post read:

“Mass deportation now, set fire to all the f*ing hotels full of the b***** for all I care… if that makes me racist so be it.”

It was an ugly, emotional outburst following the brutal killing of three people by asylum seekers in Southport. The tweet was deleted within four hours.

Lucy Connolly was charged with incitement to racial hatred. Her deleted tweet, while indefensible, was not a direct threat, not targeted at a named individual, and was not part of a physical or verbal assault.

Her appeal failed. The court ruled the sentence was “not manifestly excessive.”

Unequal Scales of Justice

The disparity is staggering.

One involved clear intent to terrorise and harm - with misogynistic, racialised language in a real-life, high-risk situation.

The other was a social media post, offensive but ephemeral and non-specific, made during a moment of emotional turmoil.

A Pattern of Hate Toward White Women

What makes Iftikhar’s case even more disturbing is how closely it mirrors the rape gang scandals across the UK involving Pakistani men.

Just like many of the offenders in those cases, two wives Iftikhar targeted a White woman, used racial slurs, and displayed an aggressive sense of cultural superiority and impunity.

This isn’t an isolated incident. It’s part of a disturbing trend amongst Pakistani men where White women are dehumanised, attacked, and silenced, while men from these communities are given excuses or soft sentencing.

The same system that ignored the grooming gang victims in Rotherham, Rochdale, and Oldham now jails women for angry tweets, while letting real-life predators walk free within months.

We must ask:

• If Salman Iftikhar had been a White man threatening to gang-rape a Muslim woman, would he have received just 15 months?
• Would the national press ignore the case within 48 hours?
• Would we see silence from “anti-racist” campaigners?

Or would we see a national outcry, Prime Ministerial statements, and pressure for hate crime sentencing reform?

The Real Question

Why does a deleted tweet, however vile, receive a longer sentence than explicit, violent, misogynistic, terrorist threats made in person?

Why is Lucy Connolly behind bars for 31 months, while Salman Iftikhar, who promised to gang-rape and burn a woman alive, will be walking free within the year?

This isn’t justice.
It’s two-tier sentencing.
It’s institutional cowardice.
It’s the abandonment of white working-class women, again.

Until we speak these truths out loud, nothing will change. And the betrayal will continue.

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