Lucy Connolly will be released today after spending more than nine months in prison for a social-media post, according to reports in British media.
Ms Connolly was sentenced to 31 months in prison last year for a message she posted on social-media platform X on the day that three young girls were killed by an attacker with a knife at a dance class in Southport, Merseyside. In her message, following widespread speculation online about the ethnicity and religion of the attacker, she called for "mass deportation" and told followers to "set fire ... for all I care" to hotels housing asylum seekers, reports the Daily Telegraph.
