Ex-Tory councillor’s wife in appeal bid over sentence for racial hatred tweet
A former Conservative councillor's wife was sentenced at Birmingham Crown Court
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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 will make a bid to appeal over the sentence on Thursday.
Lucy Connolly said in an X post on July 29 last year: “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 came after three girls were 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.
Mr Connolly had been a Tory West Northamptonshire councillor, but lost his seat in May.
Lucy Connolly’s bid to challenge her sentence is due to be heard at the Court of Appeal on Thursday morning before Lord Justice Holroyde, Mr Justice Goss and Mr Justice Sheldon.
