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Lucy Connolly loses jail sentence appeal over Southport race hate post - as Tory councillor husband brands decision 'shocking'

Lucy Connolly (Northamptonshire Police/PA) - (PA Media)

The wife of a Conservative councillor who was jailed for posting an online rant about migrants on the day of the Southport murders has lost her bid for a cut in her 31-month prison sentence.

Lucy Connolly was jailed last October over the post on X, formerly known as Twitter, in which she 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.”

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