Councillor says wife’s hate messages were out of character
Conservative Councillor Raymond Connolly says social media messages sent by his wife which stirred up racial hatred were out of character, insisting “she is not that person”. Lucy Connolly pleaded guilty at Northampton Crown Court to a charge of inciting racial hatred by publishing and distributing "threatening or abusive" written material on X, formerly Twitter. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00It's just a moment of, you know, an upset housewife really, just seeing children in the reports with all the misinformation and just got dragged into it and obviously she, obviously she regrets it.
00:20I don't know, she's not that person. She's probably the opposite to what, to that actually. She really is.