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The wife of a Conservative Party councillor has pleaded guilty to stirring up racial hatred against asylum seekers on social media during the riots.
LucyConnolly appeared at at Northampton Crown Court. Her husband, West Northamptonshire councillor Raymond Connolly, watched from the public gallery in the as she pleaded guilty to publishing threatening or abusive material intending to stir up racial hatred.
The 41-year old was accused of calling for attacks on hotels housing asylum seekers in a post on X, formerly Twitter. In a post on the day three girls were stabbed to death in Southport, she 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.”
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