In a post she later removed from her X account, former childminder Lucy Connolly advocated for “mass deportation now” and the burning of asylum-seeker hotels, saying, “If that makes me racist, so be it.”
940 additional X users reposted her comments, which received 310,000 views.
She posted the message on July 29, the day three young girls were slain in a knife assault at a dance lesson with a Taylor Swift theme in Southport, Merseyside.
Online rumors that the offender was a Muslim asylum seeker caused rioting and other disturbances in UK cities and towns.
The Northampton native, 41, later expressed regret for acting on “false and malicious” information.
Connolly, who is married to Raymond Connolly, a councillor for West Northamptonshire, was imprisoned at Birmingham Crown Court on Thursday following her guilty plea to disseminating written content intended to incite racial hatred.
