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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Nina Massey

Ex-Tory councillor’s wife seeking to appeal sentence for racial hatred tweet

The wife of a former Conservative councillor who was jailed for 31 months after an online rant about migrants on the day of the Southport attacks is due to have a bid to appeal against the sentence heard on Thursday.

Lucy 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.”

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