The shocking case of Lucy Connolly is becoming a cause célèbre. In October, the Northampton childminder and wife of a Tory councillor received 31 months behind bars for stirring up racial hatred for a tweet on the night of the Southport massacre. Suella Braverman, the former home secretary, now says her sentence was ‘excessive’ and that she is the victim of a ‘politicised two-tier justice system’; former PM Liz Truss wants her ‘released immediately’. With the White House already putting pressure on the UK over free-speech concerns, that the case has now reached Elon Musk will surely be setting nerves jangling in Downing Street.
The new attention comes after an article over the weekend by the Telegraph’s Allison Pearson on Connolly’s case. In Pearson’s telling, Lucy Connolly comes across as a loving mother and wife and a beloved childminder (to a very racially diverse group of charges, for what it’s worth). She has also suffered tragedy.
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