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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Ben Quinn

Loss of sentence appeal over Southport tweet boosts far-right fundraising for Lucy Connolly

Lucy Connolly
The far right has portrayed Lucy Connolly as the latest victim of a ‘two-tier’ justice system.
Photograph: Northamptonshire Police/PA

If Britain’s far right were looking for a new cause célèbre after last year’s Southport killings, many believe they have found it in the case of Lucy Connolly.

The childminder and wife of a Conservative councillor from Northampton was jailed for 31 months in October after calling for hotels housing asylum seekers to be torched.

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