Tory Councilor Raymond Connolly's wife, Lucy Connolly, has been arrested after a racist tweet in which she called for hotels housing asylum seekers to be set on fire. Her inflammatory comments followed the tragic stabbing of three schoolgirls at a dance class in Southport on July 29. The incident involved 17-year-old Axel Rudakubana, who carried out a stabbing spree at a dance studio in Southport, a town in northern England.
Last week, Rudakubana was charged with three counts of murder and ten counts of attempted murder by a Liverpool court. According to , Lucy Connolly, from Northampton, posted on her X account (formerly Twitter), "Mass deportation now, set fire to all the f****** hotels full of the b******* for all I care..
. If that makes me racist, so be it." She later deleted the post and apologized, stating that she acted on "false and malicious" information.
In another post, Connolly expressed remorse, saying, "I care about children, and the similarity between those beautiful children who were brutally attacked and my own daughter overwhelmed me with horror. I should not have expressed that horror in the way I did. This has been an invaluable lesson for me in how wrong and inaccurate things on social media can be.
" Tory councillor Raymond Connolly defended his wife, calling her tweet a "stupid, spur-of-the-moment" reaction made out of frustration and quickly deleted. He emphasized that she is not racist, mentioning that she cares for Somalian and Bangladeshi children as.