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Lucy Connolly: Childminder married to Tory councillor pleads guilty to stirring up racial hatred
The wife of a Tory councillor has pleaded guilty to publishing written material to stir up racial hatred.
Childminder Lucy Connolly’s plea was made at Northampton Crown Court after she was previously arrested and re-arrested in the first half of August.
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It follows the publication of a now-deleted post on Connolly’s X account, which read: “Mass deportation now, set fire to all the f*****g hotels full of the bastards for all I care… If that makes me racist, so be it.”
She made the post on the day of the knife attack in Southport when false claims had spread on social media that the attacker was an illegal migrant.
She later apologised for acting on “false and malicious” information and appeared after to have deleted her X account.
Connolly is the partner of Conservative West Northamptonshire councillor Raymond Connolly.
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