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The wife of a Conservative councillor, who was jailed after an online rant about migrants on the day of the Southport attacks, has lost her Court of Appeal bid to have the sentence reduced.

Lucy Connolly was jailed for 31 months after writing a post on X on July 29 last year, which said: “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.”

The post came after three girls were stabbed and killed at a holiday club in Southport on the same date, sparking nationwide unrest.

Conservative councillor Ray Connolly said he was “heartbroken” his wife Lucy’s appeal bid was dismissed, adding: “My wife has paid a very high price for making a mistake and today the court has shown her no mercy”.

It was viewed 310,000 times in three-and-a-half hours before Connolly deleted it.

Julia Hartley-Brewer is joined by Jill Levene from the Free Speech Union.

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