The young British record holder walked free from prison today.
What did Lucy Connolly, a 42-year-old mother and caretaker of an ill husband, hold a record for?
The longest prison sentence ever handed down for a single, solitary social media post. -- Lucy Connolly has been released from jail after being handed what is believed to be the longest prison sentence for a single social media post.
Connolly, 42, left HMP Peterborough, a mixed men’s and women’s prison, with muted fanfare on Thursday after serving more than 300 days in prison.
She was jailed last year for 31 months over a comment made in the wake of the Southport attack.
An angry, heartbroken post made in the wake of the horrific murders of three little girls at a party in Southport, England, that didn't last four hours before she'd deleted it. -- ...Connolly was jailed for a post she made on X in the aftermath of the Southport killings on July 29 last year, during a period of rising public tension fuelled by outrage about the murders and concern over illegal immigration.
In the post, she called for mass deportations and to “set fire to all the f------ hotels full of the b------- for all I care, while you’re at it, take the treacherous government politicians with them”.
She deleted the post fewer than four hours later, after it became clear that a large amount of misinformation relating to the identity of the attacker was circulating online, but not before it had been viewed more than 310,000 times.
Connolly, whose son Harry died when he was 19 months old, and who cares for her sick husband, later appealed unsuccessfully against her sentence.
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