"OUTRAGE!" Ex-Tory Councillor’s Wife Fights Sentence For Southport Tweet
The wife of a former Conservative councillor who was jailed for 31 months after an online rant about migrants on the day of the Southport attacks is due to have a bid to appeal against the sentence heard on Thursday.
Lucy Connolly said in an X post on July 29: “Mass deportation now, set fire to all the f****** hotels full of the b******* for all I care… if that makes me racist so be it.”
The post followed three girls being stabbed and killed at a holiday club in Southport on July 29, sparking nationwide unrest.
It was viewed 310,000 times in three-and-a-half hours before Connolly deleted it.
The former childminder, who is married to Raymond Connolly, was sentenced at Birmingham Crown Court last October after pleading guilty to a charge of inciting racial hatred.
Talk’s Jeremy Kyle discusses the story with chief legal counsel at the Free Speech Union, Bryn Harris.
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