Tory councillor’s wife jailed over racial hatred tweet ‘to appeal over sentence’

The woman of a Conservative councillor who was jailed for 31 months aft an online rant astir migrants connected the time of the Southport attacks volition reportedly entreaty against her sentence.

Lucy Connolly, who is joined to West Northamptonshire councillor Raymond Connolly, said successful an X station connected July 29: “Mass deportation now, acceptable occurrence to each the f****** hotels afloat of the b******* for each I care… if that makes maine racist truthful beryllium it.”

The 41-year-old erstwhile childminder was sentenced astatine Birmingham Crown Court connected Thursday aft pleading blameworthy to a complaint of inciting radical hatred.

Connolly’s hubby said that she plans to entreaty against the sentence, which helium believes was political, MailOnline reported.

Mr Connolly told the website: “She volition beryllium appealing and I volition enactment the judicial process of immoderate they determine to do.

“The occupation is, I was ever told it wasn’t governmental but contiguous it seems to be.”

Connolly’s station was viewed 310,000 times successful three-and-a-half hours earlier she deleted it.

She sent a WhatsApp connection connected August 5 joking that the tweet to her 10,000 followers had “bit maine connected the arse, lol”.

Connolly, of Northampton, was arrested connected August 6 and constabulary officers recovered different posts connected her telephone with racist remarks.

She had sent a tweet commenting connected a sword onslaught which read: “I stake my location it was 1 of these vessel invaders.”

Another station sent by Connolly – commenting connected a video posted by Tommy Robinson – work “Somalian I guess”, accompanied by a vomiting emoji.

In effect to a tweet which said Islamophobia had “no spot successful society”, Connolly responded: “F*** you, it’s not adjacent a word.”

Connolly besides sent a connection saying she intended to enactment her announcement play arsenic a childminder “on the sly” contempt being de-registered.

Prosecutor Naeem Valli said Connolly posted a connection saying she would “play the intelligence heath card” if she was ever arrested.

Three girls were stabbed and killed astatine a vacation nine successful Southport connected July 29, sparking nationwide unrest.

The Recorder of Birmingham Judge Melbourne Inman KC, sentencing, said Connolly was “well alert however volatile the concern was”.

The justice said: “As everyone is aware, that volatility led to superior upset successful a fig of areas of the state wherever mindless unit was utilized to origin wounded and harm to wholly guiltless members of the nationalist and to their properties.”

He added that Connolly had encouraged enactment which threatened oregon endangered life.