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Evening Standard
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Nina Massey

Ex-Tory councillor’s wife ‘never’ intended X post to incite violence, court told

Former Conservative councillor Raymond Connolly outside the Royal Courts of Justice (Yui Mok/PA) - (PA Wire)

The wife of a former Conservative county councillor who was jailed after an online rant about migrants on the day of the Southport attacks “never” intended to incite violence, the Court of Appeal has heard.

Lucy Connolly is challenging the sentence of 31 months imprisonment that she was given last October after admitting making the post on X, formerly known as Twitter.

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