Tory councillor’s wife admits urging rioters to ‘set fire to all the migrant hotels’ in vile-mouthed social media rant

A TORY councillor's wife has admitted urging rioters to set fire to migrant hotels in a vile-mouthed social media rant.

Lucy Connolly posted the sick comments on her X account just hours after three girls were knifed to death in Southport, Merseyside.

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The 41-year-old childminder wrote: "Mass deportation now, set fire to all the f****** hotels full of the b******* for all I care...

"If that makes me racist, so be it."

She is now facing up to 18 months in jail after pleading guilty to stirring up racial hatred.

Connolly is married to Raymond Connolly, who is Conservative vice chair of the committee on adult social care at West Northamptonshire Council.

He previously defended his wife, telling the BBC she 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."

Connolly also tried to make a U-turn on her vile comments - claiming she was acting on "false and malicious" information.

It came following the deaths of Bebe King, six, nine-year-old Alice Dasilva Aguiar and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, in Southport on July 29.

Posts wrongly claimed suspect Axel Rudakubana was a Muslim asylum seeker when he was actually born in Cardiff and raised Christian.

Riots erupted across the country as thugs clashed with police and targeted hotels housing asylum seekers.

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