THE WIFE of a Conservative Party councillor has been jailed over a social media post in which she called for mass deportation as well as setting fire to hotels housing asylum seekers. At Birmingham Crown Court on Thursday, 41-year-old Lucy Connolly was sentenced to 31 months after admitting inciting racial hatred with the post on Twitter/X. The childminder — whose husband Raymond Connolly sits on West Northamptonshire Council — posted the message on the day that three young girls were stabbed to death in Southport. "Using threatening, abusive or insulting language to rile up racism online is unacceptable and is breaking the law," said Frank Ferguson, Head of the Special Crime and Counter Terrorism Division at the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS). Guilty plea Connolly posted just hours after the July 29 killings, having encountered false information online which said the killer had been a Muslim asylum seeker who had come to the country on a boat. In her now deleted Twitter/X post from July 29, she wrote: "Mass…

Lucy Connolly, who is married to West Northamptonshire councillor Raymond Connolly, said in an X post on July 29: "Mass deportation now, set fire to all the f****** hotels full of the b******* for all I care... if that makes me racist so be it

The police suspect it could be case of cardiac arrest but are awaiting more information to ascertain the cause of his death.