Lucy Connolly faced threats behind bars after being jailed for a social media post about the Southport attacks, her husband has revealed.
Raymond Connolly told GB News that his wife initially "hid in the cell and wouldn't come out of it" due to threats from other inmates.
Connolly claimed that the Government had "used the press to destroy this family" and expressed hope that his wife would be given an opportunity to share her side of the story upon release.
Lucy Connolly was jailed for 31 months in October after pleading guilty to publishing threatening or abusive material intending to stir up racial hatred.
Raymond Connolly claimed that the government had "used the press to destroy this family"
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Her case stemmed from a post on X following the Southport attacks last July, in which three young girls were murdered at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class.
In her post, Connolly wrote: "Mass deportation now, set fire to all the f***ing hotels full of the b*****s for all I care, while you're at it, take the treacherous government politicians with them."
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Raymond "Inside prison, at the start of it was tough, obviously, because of some of the statements that were misleading from the police, she had a hard time. But the girls in there, who are not shoplifters…
"Lucy hid in the cell and wouldn't come out of it. She got into trouble. She wouldn't leave because of threats and whatever.
"But eventually these girls got to know her and the last conversation with one of these girls, because they do run the prison, was she came up to Lucy and said, ‘I’m ever so sorry; you're not that person they said you were.’
"And that's a person who only a month ago was going, ‘I'm a person of colour, you said this.’ so it took Lucy a month to get them to change.
"I'm hoping that when Lucy's released, I mean, the government have used the press to destroy this family and I'm hoping that they'll give Lucy the opportunity to use that to give her version of events and just let her speak and try and defend herself. I think she'll do a really good job."
Giving a message to Keir Starmer and the Home Secretary, he said: "You've picked Lucy Connolly as the poster girl of the far right.
"When she gets the opportunity to come out and have her say, I think she'll pretty much change people's minds.
"She's done a good job about now with just a couple of phone calls from the prison and I think when she's sitting on the sofa, sitting on Zoom, talking to people, there'll be a different Lucy portrayed.
Lucy Connolly faced 'threats' behind bars
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"Some of these people probably need to clear their desks."
Connolly was arrested on 6 August following widespread riots across the country.
On Tuesday, three Court of Appeal judges dismissed Connolly's bid to overturn her sentence, ruling it was not "manifestly excessive".
Connolly had told the court she "never" intended to incite violence and didn't realise pleading guilty would mean she accepted that she had.
