Woman jailed 31 months over 'racist' post on X after Southport stabbings 'is denied temporary release to see daughter and ailing husband' | 4 April 2025 | A woman who was jailed for two years after she tweeted about the Southport riots has been denied temporary leave to see her 12-year-old daughter and sick husband. Lucy Connolly, 42, is currently serving a 31-month sentence for a post made last summer where she spoke of mass deportations and setting fire to asylum hotels "for all I care." The comments came in the wake of the knife attack on a Southport dance class on July 29 in which three children were killed, and in the midst of false claims the attacker was an illegal immigrant. Connolly's post on X, which she later deleted, read: "Mass deportation now, set fire to all the f***ing hotels full of the b******s for all I care..." She later added: "If that makes me racist, so be it." The child-minder, from Northampton, was subsequently arrested and put behind bars. But now police chiefs are being criticised for denying Connolly temporary leave, as she has been waiting four months to secure release.