Lucy Connolly Sentenced Over Anti-Asylum Seeker Tweet, Igniting Global Free Speech Debate
Kieran Lockhart, May, 20 2025
Lucy Connolly, a Northamptonshire childminder, was sentenced to 31 months for a tweet inciting arson against hotels for asylum seekers. The case escalated into an international row, with US conservative Charlie Kirk calling it an attack on free speech and vowing political intervention.
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