A 20-year-old woman has been sentenced to more than two years in detention for assisting her boyfriend in fleeing after he and a friend murdered a disabled man in May 2023. Ross Connelly, 46, had a heated argument on Facebook with his cousin, the mother of Lewis Armstrong, one of the assailants. Armstrong, along with his friend Harvey Hughes, recruited others to go to Connelly’s home in Wheatley Hill, County Durham, to “force him to take down the posts and visit severe punishment on him.” Armstrong’s girlfriend, Millie Bradley, drove him to Connelly’s house in her Nissan Juke in convoy with Hughes’ van from Peterlee. It is believed they collected weapons including a metal pole from Armstrong’s father’s yard.
At the trial at Newcastle Crown Court, Judge Nathan Adams said that it was “inconceivable” that Bradley was unaware that Connelly, who was effectively housebound, had been seriously injured during the “merciless and cowardly attack,” and that she “must have been aware” of the feu
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