THE wife of a Tory councillor has been arrested for racial hatred after she called for rioters to set on fire all hotels with migrants.
Lucy Connolly published the comments on her X account just hours after three girls were fatally stabbed in Southport.
In a post that has since been deleted the 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.”
Mrs Connolly, from Northampton, later apologised and said she was acting on “false and malicious” information.
Northamptonshire Police said a 41-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of inciting racial hatred and remains in police custody.
Her husband Raymond Connolly is Conservative vice chair of the committee on adult social care at West Northamptonshire Council.
He defended his wife telling the BBC she made one “stupid, spur of the moment tweet out of frustration and quickly deleted it”.
Mr Connolly 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.”
In a post on X, formerly Twitter, last night she said: “I am someone who cares enormously about children and the similarity between those beautiful children who were so brutally attacked, and my own daughter, overwhelmed me with horror, but I should not have expressed that horror in the way that I did.
“This has been an invaluable lesson for me in realising how wrong and inaccurate things appearing on social media can be.”
Her X account now appears to have been taken down.
Childcare.co.uk confirmed an Ofsted registered childminder had been suspended.
The online childcare community tweeted: “Earlier today, we received information about a highly inappropriate tweet sent by a Twitter user unknown to us.
“Allegations later emerged that this individual may be an Ofsted registered childminder who had an advert on our platform.
“We took immediate action to suspend this advertiser.
“We understand the individual has been reported to both the Police and Ofsted.”
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