“Mass deportation now, set fire to all the damn hotels full of bastards as far as I’m concerned… If that makes me racist, so be it.” This message on social network X, deleted just two hours later, has brought to justice Lucy Connollythe wife of a British Conservative Party councillor.
The wife of the Tory councillor for West Northamptonshire (England), Raymond Connolly, wrote this incendiary tweet against the asylum seekers On July 29th, the day of Multiple knife attacks in Southport (Merseyside) in which a 17 year old boy killed three girls with a knife and injured eight other minors and two adults in a recreational center.
A series of messages spread on social networks pointed to a “man” as the author of the stabbing.17-year-old asylum seeker”which generated a wave of violent riots driven by far-right groups across the country, which ended with 12,180 people arrestedThe attacker was indeed 17 years old, but he was not a foreigner. but a young man born in Wales. A canard which Lucy Connolly, like thousands of English people, swallowed.
For his controversial publication The Conservative councillor’s wife, a nanny by profession, appeared before Northampton Crown Court on Monday after being arrested twice last month.
In a brief online appearance of just seven minutes, Lucy Connolly has been declared guilty from publishing threatening or abusive material with the intention of inciting racial hatred.
After hearing her testimony, Judge Adrienne Lucking KC announced to the woman that her case would be transferred to Birmingham, where a different judge will hand down the sentence to avoid any possible bias, given her husband’s political position.
It was of no use to Lucy Connolly that a few weeks ago, after deleting her tweet, apologize for writing it based on “false and malicious” information and even deleted your account on X. Lto The judge issued a warning to him on Monday: “It is likely thatto sentence includes a substantial prison sentence.” “In the meantime, you are placed in preventive detention“, he concluded.
“She is the opposite of a racist”
Outside the court, the West Northamptonshire councillor defended his wife to journalists. “She is the opposite of a racist,” He said, trying to justify her as a “nagging housewife” after hearing false information on television. on the Southport stabbings.
Elsie Dot Stancombe, Bebe King and Alice Dasilva Aguiar, the three girls murdered in Southport.
The councilor explained that Lucy gets “angry” when a child is injured, remembering Harry’s death, the son of both.
He The little boy died in 2012 at just 19 months old from dehydration after a series of basic mistakes by NHS doctors, the National Service of Health from the United Kingdom.
The Connollys took the little boy to the hospital with severe diarrhea and vomiting, where he was misdiagnosed as having an upset stomach and sent home. Two days later, the family had to return, but were again turned away by the medical staff.
Later, another doctor, this one a family doctor, failed to diagnose the real problem. The Conservative councillor woke up at 4am and discovered his son not breathing.
“She knows she has overstepped her bounds and that there will be consequences. I hope you can learn from this and move on with your life.”he concluded.
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