FORMER Home Secretary Suella Braverman has called for the release of a mum jailed for a social media comment in the wake of the Southport murders.
The Tory MP said the 31-month jail sentence handed to Lucy Connolly, 42, last year was “excessive”.
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She claimed the childminder is the victim of a “politicised two-tier justice system” and should not be in prison.
Braverman told The Sunday Telegraph: “She has deliberately been made an example of to intimidate others into silence.”
Former PM Liz Truss backed Ms Braverman’s view, writing on X the punishment’s severity was “completely unjustifiable”.
Connolly, of Northampton, was jailed in October after admitting inciting racial hatred in an X post made hours after three girls were knifed to death in Southport last July.
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She wrote of mass deportations and setting fire to asylum hotels “for all I care”, posting: “I feel physically sick knowing what these [Southport] families will now have to endure.
“If that makes me racist, so be it.”
The mum-of-one is seeking to appeal her sentence on the basis that the trial judge made a mistake in categorising the severity of the crime.
She also claims that the judge had failed to give sufficient weight to mitigating circumstances.
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