Ex-childminder who called for arson on asylum-seeker hotels released from jail
by Robyn Vinter North of England correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#6ZF96)
Lucy Connolly served 10 months of her sentence after calling for followers on X to set fire to hotels
Lucy Connolly, who was jailed in the aftermath of last summer's riots for an expletive-ridden social media post calling for followers to set fire to hotels housing asylum seekers, has been released from prison.
The former childminder who is married to the Conservative councillor Raymond Connolly, left HMP Peterborough on Thursday morning in a taxi, after serving 10 months of her sentence.
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