Posted in News Lucy Connolly to walk FREE: Tory councillor’s wife who was jailed last year for ‘racist’ Tweet during the Southport riots is being released from prison in a matter of hours August 21, 2025 The mother and former childminder has spent more than nine months behind bars after admitting making the inflammatory post on X in the wake of the Southport attacks in July last year. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15019467/Lucy-Connolly-FREE-Tory-Councillors-wife-jailed-Tweet-Southport.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490