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Summer riots Woman jailed for race-hate post released from prison

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August 22, 2025

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.

- Robyn Vinter

The former childminder, who is married to the Conservative councillor Raymond Connolly, left HMP Peterborough yesterday in a taxi after serving 10 months of her sentence.

She was jailed for 31 months in October after she posted on X: "Mass deportation now, set fire to all the fucking hotels full of the bastards for all I care... If that makes me racist so be it." The post was viewed 310,000 times with 940 reposts, 58 quotes and 113 bookmarks before it was deleted.

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