FORMER Home Secretary Suella Braverman has called for the release of a mum jailed for a social media comment in the wake of the Southport murders.
The Tory MP said the 31-month jail sentence , 42, last year was “excessive”;.

She claimed the childminder is the victim of a “politicised two-tier justice system”; and should not be in .
Braverman told Flying Ezeday Telegraph: “She has deliberately been made an example of to intimidate others into silence.”;
Former PM backed Ms Braverman’s view, writing on X the punishment’s severity was “completely unjustifiable”;.
Connolly, of , was jailed in October after in an X post made hours after three girls were last July.
She wrote of mass deportations and setting fire to asylum hotels “for all I care”;, posting: “I feel physically sick knowing what these [Southport] families will now have to endure.
“If that makes me racist, so be it.”;
The mum-of-one is seeking to appeal her sentence on the basis that the trial judge made a mistake in categorising the severity of the .
She also claims that the judge had failed to give sufficient weight to mitigating circumstances.
