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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Robyn Vinter North of England correspondent

Ex-childminder who called for arson on asylum-seeker hotels released from jail

Lucy Connolly
Lucy Connolly’s post was viewed 310,000 times with 940 reposts, 58 quotes and 113 bookmarks before it was later deleted. Photograph: Northamptonshire Police/PA

Lucy Connolly, who was jailed in the aftermath of last summer’s riots for an expletive-ridden social media post calling for followers to set fire to hotels housing asylum seekers, has been released from prison.

The former childminder, who is married to the Conservative councillor Raymond Connolly, left HMP Peterborough on Thursday morning in a taxi after serving 10 months of her sentence.

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