Free speech advocate Mr O'Grady said "no-one is arguing for an unfettered 'right' to incite racial hatred". Connolly's case was about "proportionality", he added, and "the sense that online speech is ...

Was the prosecution of Lucy Connolly in the public interest? That is the question now being asked of the embattled Attorney ...

It was a hammer blow. Devastating. Lucy Connolly had lost her appeal for early release. The three judges had decided that a 31-month sentence for one very nasty, hastily-deleted tweet posted on the ...

That’s what I asked myself when I heard about the refusal, by the Court of Appeal, to reduce the prison sentence of Lucy Connolly. She is a mother and the wife of a very unwell husband ...

Lucy Connolly, a former childminder and the wife of a Conservative councillor, was jailed for 31 months in October after pleading guilty to a charge of inciting racial hatred. Three Court of ...

Court of Appeal judges may believe that they were right to deny early release to Lucy Connolly, the 42-year-old ...

Former childminder Lucy Connolly has lost her appeal over her 31-month sentence for posting an online rant about migrants on the day of the Southport murders. Connolly told the Court of Appeal in ...

Lucy Connolly, 42, was handed a 31-month sentence after admitting making a post on X in the hours after three girls were stabbed and killed at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class. In response ...

Lucy Connolly's 51-word online post in the wake of the Southport killings led her to jail and into the centre of a row over free speech. For some, the 31-month jail term imposed for inciting race ...

Lucy Connolly sought to challenge her sentence at a hearing on Thursday, with her barristers arguing that the sentencing judge, Melbourne Inman KC, incorrectly categorised the offence for the ...