Posted on 10/17/2024 10:22:18 AM PDT by TigerClaws
The wife of a Conservative councillor has been jailed for 31 months after pleading guilty to publishing written material to stir up racial hatred after the Southport stabbings.
Former childminder Lucy Connolly published a post on her X account, which she later deleted, that called for "mass deportation now", and for hotels housing asylum seekers to be set on fire, adding: "If that makes me racist, so be it."
Her comments were viewed 310,000 times and reposted by 940 other X users.
She wrote the post on the day three young girls were killed in a knife attack at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport, Merseyside, on 29 July.
False information claiming the perpetrator was a Muslim asylum seeker spread online and led to riots and unrest in cities and towns across the UK.
The 41-year-old, from Northampton, later apologised for acting on "false and malicious" information.
Connolly, who is married to West Northamptonshire councillor Raymond Connolly, was jailed at Birmingham Crown Court on Thursday after pleading guilty to publishing written material to stir up racial hatred.
Mr Connolly declined to comment as he left the court. He said during an earlier hearing that the post was completely out of character for his wife. Conservative West Northamptonshire councillor Raymond Connolly speaks to the media outside Northampton Crown Court after his wife, Lucy Connolly, pleaded guilty to publishing a social media post stirring up racial hatred against asylum seekers.
Sentencing Connolly, Judge Melbourne Inman KC said of the Southport stabbings: "Some people used that tragedy as an opportunity to sow division and hatred, often using social media, leading to a number of towns and cities being disfigured."
The judge added she had encouraged activity which threatened or endangered life.
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Exactly what the Communists want to do here.
Coming to our country in 2025 when Harris is installed and the SCOTUS is packed. Dissent will not be tolerated.
Our dear NATO allies, united in fascism.
I think suggesting that hotels housing asylum seekers should be ‘set on fire’ is definitely a threat and danger. That goes a little beyond simply expressing disagreement with illegal immigration.
I don’t think she’s alone , people in the West are getting tired of this Invasion
Coming here if Harris wins.
“and for hotels housing asylum seekers to be set on fire”
If this is true, it’s not just opinion.
And this is how the New World Order comes in /shiny side out
Communists are extremely tolerant of everyone they agree with.
Coming soon to the Disunited States of Amerika...
Hogwash!
It is "invasion" by an enemy...
It is war and, so far, most nations have been bending over and spreading their cheeks...
“The 41-year-old, from Northampton, had no choice but to apologize for acting on “false and malicious” information.”
There, fixed it.
Right you are. It’s both reasonable and necessary to have a frank conversation about unchecked immigration. But advocating violence (burning down hotels) is a bridge too far. It’s worthy of an arrest.
Thoughtless statements like that hurt her cause.
(And, yeah. I know that Islamists say things as bad or worse, and get away with it.)
So, you condone the destruction of property on the part of civilians when they don’t like something that’s going on?
You must have been happy then, on principle, with the burning and looting of the Summer of 2020...
Disgusting. And we defeated that nation and made our own for less.
Permit me to jump in here. Like with the US, the UK has a Deep State made up of arrogant bureaucrats and traitorous globalists.
They would LOVE for some native Brit to set fire to an immigrant hotel. That would give them the excuse to crack down even more on conservatives.
Britain is in serious trouble. I can’t see how a “Reichstag Fire” event would help.
Rapists go free. She gets 31 months.
I agree. Beyond the pale.
On the other hand, they arrested a bunch of people for anti-immigration posts which did not call for or condone violence of any kind. No word on sentencing of those people that I have read about. If anyone has, let me know please!
“False information claiming the perpetrator was a Muslim asylum seeker spread online ...”
The attacker wasn’t Muslim? I was pretty sure he was. Do we know the attacker’s ethnicity/religion?
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