THE wife of a Tory councillor who was jailed for making racist tweets in the aftermath of the Southport murders is being “mistreated” in prison, it is claimed.
Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice says Lucy Connolly has been handcuffed and stripped of her privileges by prison officers.
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PALucy Connolly, who was sentenced to 31 months in prisonfor inciting racial hatred against asylum seekers[/caption]
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Connolly posted comments on her X account just hours after evil Axel Rudakubana murdered three girls in the Merseyside town on July 29 last year.
He alleges Connolly – married to Tory Raymond Connolly – is being “manhandled without provocation” after visiting her at HMP Peterborough.
Mr Tice told The Sun Ms Connelly is a “political prisoner” – and vowed to introduce “Lucy’s Law”, to stop similar cases of overly harsh punishments if Reform came to power.
After visiting Ms Connelly at HMP Peterborough on Tuesday, he told The Sun: “Lucy has bruises on her wrists, five days on from being violently manhandled by a group of aggressive guards who forced her into a wing riddled with drugs and violent women.
“Two prisoners have died there in the last 12 months.
“She was supposed to be in the enhanced wing for good behaviour. Something very wrong has occurred.”
Ms Connelly’s punishment sparked fury across the political divide.
Furious Brits noted that despite the former child minder quickly deleting her post, she remains in prison while paedos such as Hugh Edwards escaped jail time.
Connolly, 41, shared a call to arms following the deaths of Bebe King, six, nine-year-old Alice Dasilva Aguiar and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, last July.
Posts wrongly claimed monster Rudakubana was a Muslim asylum seeker when he was actually born in Cardiff and raised Christian.
Connolly 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.”
Riots erupted across the country as thugs clashed with police and targeted hotels housing asylum seekers.
After her post, Connolly sent a WhatsApp joking it had “bitten me on the a**e, lol”.
She also said if she were to get arrested over it, she would “play the mental health card”.
She was jailed for 31 months in October after admitting publishing threatening or abusive material intending to stir up racial hatred.
Connolly launched a bid against her “harsh” sentence but this was thrown out by Court of Appeal judges in May.
Mr Tice said that under Lucy’s Law, the public would be able to launch mass appeals against overly harsh sentences.
The ten-minute rule bill, which will be introduced to parliament tomorrow, would prevent an “overzealous two-tier justice” system from operating.
‘She will kick off’
Mr Connolly previously defended his wife after she pleaded guilty – saying the case had been “traumatic” for her and their three children.
He revealed their son died in 2012 after a series of NHS blunders so when his wife sees any child get harmed, “she will kick off”.
The councillor also branded Connolly “an upset housewife” and “just a middle aged mother” who got dragged into the situation by misinformation spreading online.
He added: “The stuff I hear is not really Lucy, she’s probably the opposite of what she’s having to admit to but she knows she’s overstepped the mark and there’s consequences for it,” he said.
“Hopefully she’ll be able to learn from this and move on with her life.”
Connolly also tried to make a U-turn on her vile comments – claiming she was acting on “false and malicious” information.
But the Crown Prosecution Service said she told police she did not like immigrants in her custody interview.
ROD LIDDLE It’s an outrage that Southport tweeter was treated worse than a sex offender – but I know what Two-Tier Keir’s game is
By Rod Liddle
THE law is not an ass – but judges frequently are. And they are at their most stupid when they appear to have been politically co-opted.
Lucy Connolly’s appeal has been rejected by a pompous, public school trio in the appeal courts.
She is the woman with no previous convictions who was sentenced to 31 months for tweeting something horrible about asylum seekers.
That was during those riots last summer. When an awful lot of people received very peremptory justice for saying stuff online.
Everybody could see that Connolly’s sentence was ludicrously severe. Utterly inappropriate for the crime.
Everybody, that is, except Sir Keir Starmer, who tried to claim he didn’t know the details of the case.
And the Appeal Court judges, led by Lord Justice Tim Nice-But-Dim Holroyde. Well, actually not that nice.
Connolly got a longer sentence than has been doled out recently to sex offenders, domestic abusers, robbers, burglars, stabbers . . . and everybody knows why.
It’s because the new Labour government wanted swift justice handed down to these “racists”. So these were political crimes, then.
And as Boris Johnson said, it is as if we were in a police state.
The judges concluded: “There is no arguable basis on which it could be said that the sentence imposed by the judge was manifestly excessive.”
For the rest of us, watching these proceedings in mounting fury, the precise reverse was the case.
There seems no arguable basis on which it could be said that the sentence imposed WASN’T manifestly excessive.
Lucy’s distraught husband, Conservative councillor Ray Connolly, fumed: “The court had the opportunity to reduce her cruelly long and disproportionate sentence, but they refused.”
And Lucy’s barrister said: “They have basically deemed her racist and they’ve decided that that is the ultimate moral sin. Perhaps it is in their world.
“We now have a Labour-supporting establishment and it is their inherent moral evil that the minute you can get painted as a racist, even though you’re obviously not a racist, you become a second-rate citizen.”
This is precisely the case and it is hugely damaging to our society.
It means we lose all faith in our legal system — if we ever had any in the first place — when such outrageous miscarriages of justice occur.
For a long while now, the courts have operated a two-tier system for sentencing. And they do that because, just as the right-wingers say, we live in a two-tier country.
There are the asylum seekers who judges will seemingly not deport, no matter what heinous crimes they may have committed.
And similarly the eco-protestors who cause misery and mayhem, but are praised by idiot judges for their commitment to the cause.
And then, while people who tweeted nasty stuff about those asylum seekers get banged up in Starmer’s state without so much as a by-your-leave, the Government refuses to hold an inquiry into the rape-gangs scandal which implicated so many Asian- Muslim men up and down the country.
What has happened to Lucy Connolly is a scandal.
And it is a scandal which involves the judges AND the Government. In collusion. When that happens, we are no longer living in a free country.
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