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Lucy Connolly released from prison after race hate post on X

  • August 21, 2025
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1755177063 545 grey placeholder Lucy Connolly released from prison after race hate post on XX.com A smiling Lucy Connolly looking directly down the camera. She has shoulder length, dark brown hair and brown eyes. She is seen indoors, in what appears to be a kitchen, with a white tiled splashback and work surface behind her. The edge of a hob extractor fan can also be seen behind her.X.com

Lucy Connolly’s online post in the wake of the Southport killings led her to a 31-month jail term

A woman who was jailed for stirring up racial hatred in the aftermath of the Southport attack has been released from prison.

Lucy Connolly, 42, whose husband serves on Northampton Town Council, pleaded guilty in September after posting the expletive-ridden message on X the day three girls were stabbed in Southport in July 2024.

Connolly, from Northampton, called for “mass deportation now” and urged her followers on X to “set fire” to hotels housing asylum seekers.

She was released from HMP Peterborough earlier after she was handed a 31-month prison sentence in October at Birmingham Crown Court.

1755177063 545 grey placeholder Lucy Connolly released from prison after race hate post on XNorthamptonshire Police A police mugshot of Lucy Connolly. She is staring directly down the camera, with a neutral expression. Her hair is pulled back over her ears and behind her, in what appears to be a ponytail. She is wearing a pink top. Northamptonshire Police

The former childminder posted her tweet on X on 29 July and was arrested on 6 August 2024

In October, Connolly was ordered to serve 40% of her sentence in prison before being released on licence.

The former childminder posted her tweet on X on 29 July 2024.

On 6 August 2024 she was arrested, by which point she had deleted her social media account, but other messages were found by officers after they had seized her phone.

The post was viewed 310,000 times in the three-and-a-half hours before she deleted it.

Later in court she admitted to inciting racial hatred by publishing and distributing “threatening or abusive” written material on X.

1755177063 545 grey placeholder Lucy Connolly released from prison after race hate post on XGoogle Street view image of the prison from behind a barrier. It is a long rectangular building with a red on the walls where the entrance is. Outside is a stretch of grass with some bushes and flowers. Google

Connolly was released from HMP Peterborough on 21 August

Connolly’s husband, Raymond, is a Northampton town councillor and former West Northamptonshire district councillor.

In May Court of Appeal judges refused her appeal to reduce the sentence.