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Jailed wife of former Tory councillor says she 'never' meant to incite violence
The wife of a former Tory councillor has said she "never" meant to incite violence when she called for hotels to be burned down.
Lucy Connolly appeared from HMP Drake Hall in Eccleshall in Staffordshire, where she is currently serving a 31-month sentence for an online rant in which she called asylum seekers "b******s". She is challenging the sentence, which she was given last October, at the Court of Appeal after admitting making the post on X.
Writing on the day of the Southport attacks, Connolly said: "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." It followed three girls being stabbed to death at a holiday club in Southport sparking unrest around the country.
Connolly told the three judges she never meant to incite violence, and that she later deleted the post. Lord Justice Holroyde, Mr Justice Goss and Mr Justice Sheldon heard that when she initially wrote it on 29 July last year, she was "really angry, really upset" and "distressed that those children had died".
She added she knew how the parents felt. Connolly said: "Those parents still have to live a life of grief.
It sends me into a state of anxiety and I worry about my children." The court heard Connolly's own child died 14 years ago and that this had caused a resurgence of her anxiety. Connolly's lawyer, Adam King, asked her if she intended for anybody to set asylum hotels on fire or "murder any politicians.
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