Lucy Connolly, jailed for inciting violence against asylum-seeker hotels on X, has been released after serving 40% of her sentence, reigniting debate over free speech and hate crime laws in the UK.

Lucy Connolly has said she is considering to take legal action against the police just one day after being released from prison. The 42-year-old - who was jailed over a social media post after the Southport attack - said she believes the police were "dishonest" in what they said about her.

Lucy Connolly, who was jailed after calling for her followers on X to burn down asylum hotels with people inside them, has said she is considering legal action against the police after her release from prison.

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch has been slammed for posting a tweet in support of Lucy Connolly, who was jailed for stirring up racial hatred. Connolly pleaded guilty to sharing a tweet on the day of the Southport stabbings, calling for “mass deportations” and urging people to “set fire” to asylum hotels.

Lucy Connolly's husband Raymond has issued a withering message to the Prime Minister after his wife finally won her freedom. On Thursday, Mrs Connolly was released from prison after being jailed for a social media post last year.

Let’s get the easy bit out of the way at the start so we can put the predictable left-wing response to bed: what Lucy Connolly wrote was disgraceful. Her expletive-laden call to torch migrant hotels, posted in the heat of the Southport child murders ...

Despite Connolly pleading guilty for her vile social media post, some sections of the right-wing press have tried to portray her as some sort of martyr.