The wife of a British politician has been arrested for r@cial h@tred after saying rioters should set fire to all the migrant hotels.
Lucie Connolly, who works as a
childminder in Northamptonshire, made vile tweet with the phrase: 'if that makes
me racist, so be it.'
Posting on Twitter, Connolly
said: 'Mass deportation now, set fire to all the f****** hotels full of the
b******* for all I care, while you're at it take the treacherous government and
politicians with them.
'I feel physically sick knowing
what these families will now have to endure. If that makes me racist, so be
it.'
Wife of British politician is
arrested for r@cial h@tred after saying rioters should
The message was posted just hours after the
death of three girls, aged six, seven, and nine, at a Taylor Swift-themed
holiday club in Southport.
The horror knife rampage
sparked a slew of misinformation that spread like wildfire online fuelled by
Russian-linked fake news.
She has since deleted her post
and blamed it on 'a moment of extreme outrage and emotion' when she was acting
on 'false and malicious' information.
Her husband Raymond, who is
vice chair of the committee on adult social care at West Northamptonshire
Council, responded to the BBC by saying his wife is not racist because she
looks after 'Somalian and Bangladeshi kids'.
Wife of British politician is arrested
for r@cial h@tred after saying rioters should
Northamptonshire Police said that a
41-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of inciting racial hatred
after reports of a hate crime regarding a social media post.
Online childcare community
Childcare.co.uk have since confirmed that they have suspended Connolly
following the tweet, after allegations emerged she had an advert on their
platform.
It comes after violent riots
have exploded across several cities including Manchester, Liverpool, Plymouth,
and Birmingham following the Southport knife rampage which claimed the lives of
three young girls and left many others injured.
And just days ago gangs of
masked thugs descended on hotels believed to be housing migrants and asylum
seekers, with many starting fire to the buildings as they threw petrol bombs
and projectiles at police.
Approached by the BBC, Cllr
Connolly defended his wife, saying that his wife had made one 'stupid, spur of
the moment tweet out of frustration and quickly deleted it'
He continued: 'She's a good
person and she's not racist. She's got Somalian and Bangladeshi kids she looks
after and she loves them like they're her own'.
Responding on social media
today, Ms. Connolly said: I regret and apologise for a recent post that I made.
Acting on information that I now know to be false and malicious, and in a
moment of extreme outrage and emotion, I posted words that I realise were wrong
in every way.
'I am someone who cares
enormously about children, and the similarity between those beautiful children
who were so brutally attacked and my own daughter overwhelmed me with horror
but I should not have expressed that horror in the way that I did.
'This has been a valuable
lesson for me, in realising how wrong and inaccurate things appearing on social
media can be, and I will never ever react in this way again.'
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