THE wife of a Southport councillor who was jailed for making racist tweets is being “mistreated” in prison, it is claimed.
Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice says Lucy Connolly has been handcuffed and stripped of her privileges by prison officers.
Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice[/caption]
Lucy Connolly, who was sentenced to 31 months in prisonfor inciting racial hatred against asylum seekers[/caption]
He alleges Connolly – married to Tory Raymond Connolly – is being “manhandled without provocation” after visiting her today at HMP Peterborough.
She posted comments on her X account just hours after teenager Axel Rudakubana murdered three girls in Southport, Merseyside, last summer.
The 41-year-old childminder wrote: “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.”
She was jailed for 31 months in October after admitting publishing threatening or abusive material intending to stir up racial hatred.
Connolly launched a bid against her “harsh” sentence but this was thrown out by Court of Appeal judges in May.
