A Conservative councillor’s wife who was jailed for a race hate offence after an online rant on the day of last year’s Southport attacks has had her appeal against her sentence dismissed.
Lucy Connolly, from Northampton, was jailed for 31 months after calling for “mass deportation now” and urging her followers on X to “set fire” to hotels housing asylum seekers.
She had pleaded guilty to inciting racial hatred.
Judges at the Court of Appeal have now ruled that “there is no arguable basis on which it could be said that the sentence imposed by the judge was manifestly excessive”.
