The wife of a Conservative councillor has been jailed for 31 months after calling for hotels housing asylum seekers to be set on fire.
Lucy Connolly, whose husband serves on West Northamptonshire Council, posted the expletive-ridden message on X on the day three girls were killed in Southport.
The 41-year-old childminder called for “mass deportation now” and added: “If that makes me racist, so be it.”
Judge Melbourne Inman KC told Birmingham Crown Court the sentence for these offences was intended to “punish and deter”.
The hearing was told Connolly, of Parkfield Avenue in Northampton, sent a WhatsApp message on 5 August joking that the tweet to her 10,000 followers had “bitten me on the arse, lol”.
Connolly was ordered by the court to serve 40% of her 31-month sentence in prison before being released on licence.
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