Lucy Connolly freed from prison after hate-tweet jail term.
Lucy Connolly, who was jailed for stirring up racial hatred against asylum seekers online on the day of the Southport murders, has been released from prison.Connolly, 42, the wife of Conservative councillor Raymond Connolly, was driven from HMP Peterborough in a taxi on Thursday morning, a prison source said.It is understood that Connolly was a passenger in a white taxi which left HMP Peterborough via the vehicle airlock, a set of two gates exiting the prison, shortly after 10am.Once the external gate of the airlock had opened, the taxi drove off down the road past reporters.She was handed a 31-month sentence in October after she posted on X: “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. Blogger: As a retired JP and Chairman - I have to wonder why this offence was not tried in a Magistrates' Court. It was surely dealt with in a Crown Court in order to be able to artificially bump up her sentence. Had this been a Moslem woman, making identical comments, most assuredly, this would never have reached Crown Court. (And some deny the concept of 'two tier justice'.) Moreover, I am certain that there would have been no prison sentence imposed. Many who know my views may be surprised to learn that I considered this a crime which did indeed merit a custodial sentence. The only difference was that a sentence of two months custody (out in four weeks or less) was probably what should have been imposed. However, in the meantime, sentencing has been so appalling in recent months: paedophiles, perpetrators of knife crime, burglars - and so many more who have deserved truly heavy sentences - have been released from courts with token punishments and a giant, mocking grin on their lips. Starmer has probably lost a million votes on this abominable misuse of the judicial system alone.
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