Lucy Connolly claims she is being threatened with a return to prison after probation officers sent her a warning letter about her social media posts in recent weeks.
The former childminder from Northampton was jailed for 31 months in October 2024 for stirring up racial hatred against asylum seekers after the Southport murders.
She was released from prison last August after serving 40 per cent of her sentence and has been serving the remainder on licence under the probation service’s supervision.
But the 42-year-old claims she has now been sent a ‘warning letter’ after retweeting a comment on X appearing to joke that President Donald Trump should remove Prime Minister Keir Starmer in the same way the US seized Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro.
Mrs Connolly said she was also warned about an interview she gave GB News last month about activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah, who returned to the UK after being released from detention in Egypt before attracting criticism over his past social media posts.
She served 380 days in prison but could be returned to jail if she commits any further offences before her licence period is over or breaches her release conditions.
Mrs Connolly told Dan Wootton’s Outspoken show yesterday: ‘I am at the stage now – my original tweet aside, we’re not talking about that, we’re not talking about those words – I generally don’t know what is okay by their standards to say and what is not.
‘I’ve been pulled up for several things last week with a warning letter which is telling me that it’s not of good behaviour. And none of which I’m in agreeance with.’
Lucy Connolly with her former Conservative councillor husband Raymond Connolly last year
Lucy Connolly retweeted a comment on X appearing to joke that Donald Trump should remove Prime Minister Keir Starmer in the same way the US seized Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro
It comes after she retweeted a message by X user ‘The Jackal’ who wrote on January 3: ‘Dear @realDonaldTrump – now you’ve taken out the socialist Venezuelan undemocratic PM, any chance you can pop over to the UK and do the same here? @Keir_Starmer is a complete c**t. Thanks muchly – Great Britain.’
The Jackal’s post was retweeted 5,700 times, liked 44,000 times, viewed 533,000 times and attracted 1,200 comments.
Mrs Connolly told Mr Wootton: ‘I reshared a tweet of someone else’s where they jokingly, you know, tongue-in-cheek, said, “could you come and get… if Trump could come and take Starmer like they did, you know, in Iran, sorry, in Venezuela”.
‘And apparently somebody called probation and said they were very offended by this post and it’s inciting violence, so I got a b****cking.’
She added that probation had also mentioned ‘something else that I said on GB News, I was talking about the [Alaa Abd] El-Fattah situation’.
Mrs Connolly continued: ‘I’m genuinely at the point now where I feel like, can you just give me a list of thing that I am allowed to say?
‘Because every time I say something that you don’t agree with or that you don’t find funny, you’re threatening to recall me to prison. Obviously I don’t want that to happen.
‘I completely appreciate for all the lunatics out there that I am on licence, I must toe the line, adhere my licence conditions, but, again, they tell us time and time and time again that we have free speech in this country.
‘And those that will argue with me will go ‘well, we do have free speech but we don’t have incitement and we don’t have violence’.
‘Fine, even if I accept that, I don’t think you’ll find anything on my Twitter since I’ve made a return to Twitter since I’ve been to prison, that you would deem offensive or incitement. It’s just not.’
Lucy Connolly said probation had also mentioned ‘something else that I said on GB News’ in relation to activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah. She is pictured speaking about him on December 29
Alaa Abd El-Fattah was released and came to the UK after years of detention in Egypt
Mrs Connolly spoke at length about Mr Abd El-Fattah’s entry into the UK on GB News on December 29, although it is not clear what quotes were highlighted by probation officials.
She told Mr Wootton: ‘Obviously what I wrote wasn’t okay, but certainly what he’s been writing over the past Lord knows how many years isn’t okay either.
‘Do I think he should go to prison? No, I don’t because I believe in free speech and free speech is not free if there are consequences. However, do I think we should revoke his citizenship and send him packing? Absolutely.
‘He’s targeting Jews. I think they’ve got enough on their plates right now of all the, you know, all the hate marches and everything else that’s going and what’s happened in Australia recently and what happens here.
‘Unfortunately for the Jews, they’re having a really, really hard time at the minute. And we deem it acceptable in this country to ship in another one, another person to hate on them.’
She added that her case compared to the Egyptian’s was ‘100 per cent’ evidence that Britons were living in a ‘two-tier society’.
Mr Abd El-Fattah was released and came to the UK last month after years of detention in Egypt, but was soon found to have previously written tweets which appeared to show him calling for violence against Zionists and the police.
The Conservatives and Reform UK both suggested he should have his British citizenship stripped for the posts, but it is understood there are no current plans for this and law does not appear to provide grounds to deport him.
Lucy Connolly in a police mugshot, issued when she was jailed for 31 months in October 2024
The retweeted post appeared to make a joke referring to Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro
He was granted UK citizenship in December 2021 under former Conservative prime minister Boris Johnson, reportedly through his UK-born mother.
Mr Abd El-Fattah has now apologised for the social media posts, saying he understood ‘how shocking and hurtful’ his previous comments were.
Mrs Connolly’s case made international headlines after she posted on X on July 29, 2024: ‘Mass deportation now, set fire to all the f***ing hotels full of the b****rds for all I care … if that makes me racist so be it.’
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.
A bid to challenge her sentence at the Court of Appeal was dismissed in May 2025, before she was freed from prison last August after serving 40 per cent of her 31-month term, the automatic release point for her sentence.
Mrs Connolly – married to former West Northamptonshire Conservative councillor Raymond Connolly – will remain on licence until the end of her sentence.
The Ministry of Justice declined to comment to the Daily Mail.