Tory councillor’s wife jailed after tweet calling for attack on asylum hotels

Lucy Connolly (Image: X)

Lucy Connolly, the woman of West Northamptonshire Conservative councillor Raymond Connolly, has been jailed astatine Birmingham Crown Court for 31 months for inciting radical hatred connected X connected the time of the Southport attacks.

Lucy Connolly, 41, a childminder, had taken to X, formerly Twitter, to telephone for hotels lodging migrants to beryllium acceptable connected occurrence successful the aftermath of the murders of 3 girls successful Southport.

In the message, she said: “Mass deportation now, acceptable occurrence to each the f****** hotels afloat of the b******s for each I attraction … If that makes maine racist, truthful beryllium it.”

Mrs Connolly, who is joined to the West Northamptonshire councillor Raymond Connolly, had been remanded successful situation since her archetypal proceeding connected 10 August.

Connolly advertised her childminding services connected the online level Childcare.co.uk, which said that erstwhile it heard astir her “highly inappropriate tweet” it took enactment to suspend her arsenic an advertiser.

The UK riots swept the state pursuing the execution of 3 girls successful Southport (Image: Getty)

Speaking pursuing her blameworthy plea, her hubby said that his woman understood what she had done and regretted it.

Mr Connolly said: “She knows that she overstepped the people and determination is consequences for it. Hopefully she’ll beryllium capable to larn from this and determination connected with her life.”

Many of those arrested for upset person received lengthy custodial sentences (Image: Getty)

This comes amid a bid of strict sentences taken by authorities successful the aftermath of the riots that engulfed the state pursuing the senseless murders of 3 children successful Southport.

In the aftermath of the murders, misinformation dispersed online blamed an amerciable migrant for the killings, with the claims aboriginal being revealed to beryllium false.