Tory councillor’s wife jailed for calling on people to burn down migrant hotels

Lucy Connolly, the woman of a Conservative councillor, has been jailed for 31 months for inciting radical hatred connected X connected the time of the Southport attacks.

The 41-year-old childminder was sentenced contiguous aft antecedently pleading blameworthy to the charges connected September 2.

Connolly was charged successful August with publishing worldly intending to disturbance up radical hatred, aft publishing posts calling for wide deportation and mounting occurrence to hotels lodging immigrants successful the aftermath of the Southport murders.

Birmingham Crown Court was told Connolly, who is joined to West Northamptonshire councillor Raymond Connolly, posted a connection connected July 29 which read: ‘Mass deportation now, acceptable occurrence to each the f****** hotels afloat of the bastards for each I care… If that makes maine racist, truthful beryllium it.’

The tribunal was told Lucy Connolly, who has nary erstwhile convictions, besides sent different tweet commenting connected a sword onslaught which read: ‘I stake my location it was 1 of these vessel invaders.’

Another X station sent by Connolly – commenting connected a video posted by Tommy Robinson – work ‘Somalian I guess’ and was accompanied by a vomiting emoji.

In a consequent connection sent connected WhatsApp pursuing the posts, she bragged astir ‘playing the intelligence wellness card’ if she was arrested.

Connolly appeared earlier the tribunal via a video-link to HMP Peterborough portion her hubby watched the proceedings from the nationalist gallery.

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