Lucy Connolly, who was jailed for stirring up racial hatred against asylum seekers online on the day of the Southport murders, has been released from prison. Connolly, 42, the wife of Conservative councillor Raymond Connolly, was driven from HMP Peterborough in a taxi on Thursday morning, a prison source said. It is understood Connolly was a passenger in a white taxi which left HMP Peterborough via the vehicle airlock, a set of two gates exiting the prison, shortly after 10am.

Lucy Connolly, who was jailed for stirring up racial hatred against asylum seekers online on the day of the Southport murders, has been released from prison.Connolly, 42, the wife of Conservative councillor Raymond Connolly, was driven from HMP Peterborough in a taxi on Thursday morning, a prison source said.It is understood Connolly was a passenger in a white taxi which left HMP Peterborough via the vehicle airlock, a set of two gates exiting the prison, shortly after 10am.