Tory politician’s wife jailed for stirring up racial hatred

Lucy Connolly, the wife of a Conservative councillor, has been jailed for more than two-and-a-half years after writing a social media post in which she called for hotels housing asylum seekers to be set on fire with people inside.

Connolly, of Parkfield Avenue, Northampton, wrote the post in the wake of the killing of three children in Southport.

Appearing at Birmingham Crown Court on Thursday, Connolly, 41, the wife of West Northamptonshire councillor Raymond Connolly, was sentence to 31 months’ imprisonment by judge Melbourne Inman, having admitted publishing material intending to stir up racial hatred, at an earlier hearing.

Connolly’s posts were published following the deaths of six-year-old Bebe King, Elise Dot Stancombe, who was seven, and Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, who were stabbed to death at a Taylor

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