Lucy Connolly has been warned she could be recalled to prison after re-posting a comment which appeared to joke about Donald Trump removing Keir Starmer after Nicolas Maduro‘s removal from power in Venezuela. Ms Connolly, 42, was freed on licence in August after she was jailed for calling for mass deportation and for migrant hotels to be set on fire in the immediate aftermath of the Southport murders in July 2024.
She admitted to inciting racial hatred and was sentenced to two years and seven months in October the same year. Ms Connolly told Dan Wootton on his YouTube channel on Tuesday (January 13) that she received a warning letter after sharing someone else’s joke post.
The former childminder from Northampton said: « I generally don’t know what is okay by their standards to say and what is not. »
She told Wootton she had been pulled up for several things last week with a warning letter telling her that the posts were not « good behaviour ».
Ms Connolly said she agreed with none of it, adding: « I re-shared a tweet of someone else’s where they jokingly, you know, tongue-in-cheek, said could Trump come and take Starmer like they did, you know, in Iran, sorry, in Venezuela.
« And apparently… somebody called probation and said they were very offended by this post and it’s inciting violence. »
She insisted that nothing could be found on her X account since she was jailed that could be deemed « offensive or incitement ».
Ms Connolly said remarks she had made about her daughter being rejected by a school and about the activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah had also prompted warnings.
Mr el-Fattah was released from detention in Egypt in September. He apologised after previous comments he made online re-surfaced in which he appeared to call for violence against Zionists and the police.
Ms Connolly posted on X in July 2024 after coming across wrong information about the Southport killer being a Muslim asylum seeker who arrived in the UK on a boat.
She deleted the post within hours of realising a lot of misinformation was being shared on social media about the attacker.
Ms Connolly was charged and pleaded guilty to one count of inciting racial hatred. She was sentenced to 31 months in prison at Birmingham Crown Court on October 17, 2024.
She served 380 days in prison before being released on licence under strict conditions. The length of her sentence was deemed excessive by supporters, including former prime ministers Liz Truss and Boris Johnson.
The Ministry of Justice has been approached for comment.
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