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Suella Braverman calls for release of mum jailed for social media comment in wake of Southport murders

Published on April 06, 2025 at 08:52 PM

Suella Braverman calls for release of mum jailed for social media comment in wake of Southport murders

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”;.

Suella Braverman arriving at BBC Broadcasting House.
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

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.

Woman holding a cocktail glass.
Lucy Connolly was jailed for a social media comment about mass deportations and setting fire to asylum hotels
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