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‘An actual disgrace!’ Katie Lam tears into ‘two-tier’ Labour for Lucy Connolly sentencing

News'An actual disgrace!' Katie Lam tears into 'two-tier' Labour for Lucy Connolly sentencing

Katie Lam has launched a scathing assault on what she describes as "two-tier justice" from Labour within the Lucy Connolly case, expressing remorse that Connolly felt compelled to plead responsible.

The 42-year-old former childminder was jailed in October after admitting to publishing threatening materials on social media platform X.

Her submit, made on July 29 final yr, known as for "mass deportation" and urged followers to "set fireplace to all of the f****** inns stuffed with the b******s," referring to asylum seekers.

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Mrs Lam informed GB Information: "Nicely, what I feel is an actual disgrace is that Lucy Connolly pled responsible. We’ve seen comparable circumstances for instance, the trial of Labour councillor Ricky Jones, the place individuals have gone earlier than juries.

"Juries have recognised what most of us can clearly see to be true: that any person mentioned one thing horrible within the warmth of the second, and that’s not the identical as a correct incitement to violence.

"I feel it’s actually unhappy and an actual disgrace, and it’s a testomony to how heavy-handed the Authorities was on the time that Lucy Connolly felt she needed to plead responsible and has since served time in jail.

"I feel the way in which the Prime Minister reacted to these protests, labelling everybody far-right and calling so vociferously for swift and really harsh sentences, whereas not doing the identical in different contexts, is an instance of two-tier justice."

The inflammatory message, posted on the identical day because the Southport murders, was seen 310,000 occasions inside three and a half hours earlier than being deleted.

Mrs Connolly, who’s married to Conservative councillor Raymond Connolly, was arrested on August 6 after deleting her account.

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Birmingham Crown Courtroom handed Lucy Connolly a 31-month sentence for stirring up racial hatred.

Further content material was found on her cellular gadget through the police investigation.

Connolly walked free from HMP Peterborough on Thursday morning after serving the required 40 per cent of her sentence.

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The mom is predicted to present choose media interviews on Friday, marking her first public statements since imprisonment.

Her first day of freedom was spent privately with household, together with her councillor husband, their daughter, and her dad and mom.

She was additionally reportedly noticed taking her canine for a night stroll.

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