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

Lucy Connolly, the wife of a Conservative councillor, has been jailed for 31 months for inciting racial hatred on X on the day of the Southport attacks.

The 41-year-old childminder was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to the charges on September 2.

Connolly was charged in August with publishing material intending to stir up racial hatred, after publishing posts calling for mass deportation and setting fire to hotels housing immigrants in the aftermath of the Southport murders.

Birmingham Crown Court was told Connolly, who is married to West Northamptonshire councillor Raymond Connolly, posted a message on July 29 which read: ‘Mass deportation now, set fire to all the f****** hotels full of the bastards for all I care… If that makes me racist, so be it.’

The court was told Lucy Connolly, who has no previous convictions, also sent another tweet commenting on a sword attack which read: ‘I bet my house it was one of these boat invaders.’

Another X post sent by Connolly – commenting on a video posted by Tommy Robinson – read ‘Somalian I guess’ and was accompanied by a vomiting emoji.

In a subsequent message sent on WhatsApp following the posts, she bragged about ‘playing the mental health card’ if she was arrested.

Connolly appeared before the court via a video-link to HMP Peterborough while her husband watched the proceedings from the public gallery.

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