Lucy Connolly loses bid to appeal against sentence for racial hatred tweet

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

The wife of a Conservative councillor, who was jailed after an online rant about migrants on the day of the Southport attacks, has lost her Court of Appeal bid to have the sentence reduced.

Lucy Connolly was jailed for 31 months after writing a post on X on July 29 last year, which said: “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.”