Lucy Connolly has said she is considering to take legal action against the police just one day after being released from prison.
The 42-year-old - who was jailed over a social media post after the Southport attack - said she believes the police were "dishonest" in what they said about her.
Discussing taking legal action, Mrs Connolly, who left HMP Peterborough on Thursday morning, said: “That’s something that I will be looking into.
"I don’t want to say too much because I need to seek legal advice on that, but I do think the police were dishonest in what they released and what they said about me, and I will be holding them to account for that," she told The Telegraph.
Mrs Connolly was handed a 31-month sentence after she posted on X: “Mass deportation now, set fire to all the f****** hotels full of the b******s for all I care … if that makes me racist so be it.”
The wife of a Tory councillor said she is now considering taking legal action over a statement which suggested she told officers in her police interview that she did not like immigrants, claiming her words were "massively twisted and used against me”.
A press release from the CPS following her guilty plea on September 2 included a quote from Frank Ferguson, head of the Crown Prosecution Service’s Special Crime and Counter Terrorism Unit, which said: “During police interview Lucy Connolly stated she had strong views on immigration, told officers she did not like immigrants and claimed that children were not safe from them.”
Lucy Connolly was handed a 31 month prison sentence
| PAIn her first interview since being released, Mrs Connolly also confirmed that she is due to meet with the Donald Trump administration over a "free speech crackdown".
Speaking about her meeting with Trump representatives, she said: “They are very interested in the way things are going in the UK and they’re obviously advocates for free speech.
“Their lawyers are keen to speak with me,” she told Dan Wootton’s podcast.
The case of Mrs Connolly has been previously been raised in the White House following a landmark GB News interview.
Her imprisonment was raised with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in an extraordinary diplomatic development.
It came after American political commentator and activist Charlie Kirk pledged to take Connolly's case right to the top of the Trump administration.
The former childminder said she considers herself Sir Keir Starmer's "political prisoner".
She said: "I think with Starmer he needs to practice what he preaches.
"He’s a human rights lawyer, so maybe he needs to look at what people’s human rights are; what freedom of speech means; and what the laws are in this country.”
Though she has now said she "should never" have made the comment, she insists that she is "no far-right thug".
“You’re shutting people’s voices down. It’s ‘let’s give them a label’. Let’s tell them they’re bad people and then they will be quiet," she added.
Mrs Connolly, from Northampton, pleaded guilty to inciting racial hatred by publishing and distributing “threatening or abusive” written material on X and was jailed at Birmingham Crown Court in October last year.
She was ordered to serve 40 per cent of her sentence in prison before being released on licence.
A bid to challenge Mrs Connolly's sentence at the Court of Appeal was dismissed in May, which was described by her husband (pictured) as 'shocking and unfair'
|PA
She was arrested on August 6, by which point she had deleted her social media account, but other messages which included further "racist remarks" were uncovered by officers who seized her phone.
Her case has sparked debate, with some criticising her sentence as excessive.
Reacting to her release, Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said Mrs Connolly’s sentence was “harsher than the sentences handed down for bricks thrown at police or actual rioting”.
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage described the case as a “symbol of Keir Starmer’s authoritarian, broken, two-tier Britain”.
A bid to challenge her sentence at the Court of Appeal was dismissed in May, which was described by Mr Connolly as “shocking and unfair”.