Lucy Connolly, who was imprisoned for inciting racial hatred on social media has suggested she could pursue legal action against the police for her time behind bars and “dishonest” actions in her case. Mrs Connolly was sentenced to 31 months in prison after pleading guilty to inciting racial hatred in the wake of the Southport terror attack.
Many have argued that her sentence was harsh and after her release this week, she told the Telegraph that she is considering legal action against the police. On potential legal action, she said: “That’s something that I will be looking into. I don’t want to say too much because I need to seek legal advice on that, but I do think the police were dishonest in what they released and what they said about me, and I will be holding them to account for that.”
Mrs Connolly alleges that the police were dishonest in their handling of the case and misrepresented her views on immigration.
As tensions soared across the country in the wake of the sick killings of three girls at a Taylor Swift themed dance class in Southport, Mrs Connolly tweeted, calling for “mass deportation now”.
She added: “Set fire to all the f—ing hotels full of the b——s for all I care… if that makes me racist so be it.”
She later deleted the post but not before it had been seen by 310,000 people.
The wife of a local Conservative councillor, she believes that her subsequent arrest and imprisonment affected the way that she was treated by the criminal justice system, claiming that she is a “political prisoner” of Keir Starmer.
In an interview on Dan Wootton’s Outspoken YouTube show, Lucy Connolly said she had been labelled far-right to “take her voice away.”
She added: “You’re shutting people’s voices down. It’s ‘let’s give them a label’. Let’s tell them they’re bad people and then they will be quiet.”
She added that she deleted her tweet after the “red mist descended” but that a screenshot of it then went viral.
“It was definitely some kind of political campaign, because it started off, the first tweet I saw was like, ‘look at this Tory councillor’s wife being racist’,” she said.
She added: “They seem to be more bothered that I was married to a Tory councillor than what I’d said or, you know, anything like that … it was very much politically motivated.
“Whoever did it in it, whoever started that motion off, was 100% you know, politically motivated.”
In the wake of riots across the country, the Prime Minister vowed to come down hard on “far-right thuggery” and warned that anybody involved would “face the full force of the law”.
Claiming that she and others imprisoned for serious offences were “political prisoners”, Mrs Connolly said: “It is important to remember that it wasn’t just me. I, for some reason, seem to have had the most coverage, but there are people that are in equally awful situations that shouldn’t be in there.
“And we should also be fighting for them and remembering them and when they come out, give them the same support.
“I think with Starmer he needs to practice what he preaches. He’s a human rights lawyer, so maybe he needs to look at what people’s human rights are; what freedom of speech means and what the laws are in this country.”