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.
Discussing taking legal action, Mrs Connolly, who left HMP Peterborough on Thursday morning, said: “That’s something that I will be looking into.
“I don’t want to say too much because I need to seek legal advice on that, but I do think the police were dishonest in what they released and what they said about me, and I will be holding them to account for that,” she told The Telegraph.
In other media reports, Mrs Connolly also suggested she is due to meet with the Donald Trump administration over a “free speech crackdown”.
The former childminder, who is the wife of a Conservative councillor, said she considers herself Sir Keir Starmer’s “political prisoner”.
“I think with Starmer he needs to practice what he preaches, she told The Telegraph.
“He’s a human rights lawyer, so maybe he needs to look at what people’s human rights are; what freedom of speech means; and what the laws are in this country.”
Mrs Connolly was handed a 31-month sentence after she posted on X: “Mass deportation now, set fire to all the f****** hotels full of the bastards for all I care … if that makes me racist so be it.”
She pleaded guilty to inciting racial hatred by publishing and distributing “threatening or abusive” written material on X and was jailed at Birmingham Crown Court in October last year.
Mrs Connolly, from Northampton, was ordered to serve 40 per cent of her sentence in prison before being released on licence.
She was arrested on August 6, by which point she had deleted her social media account, but other messages which included further racist remarks were uncovered by officers who seized her phone.
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