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The mistreatment of Lucy Connolly in prison is deeply sinister

She says she’s been manhandled, bruised and starved yet was jailed for a single tweet – we are truly living in Starmer’s Stasi Britain

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Lucy Connolly, a childminder from Northamptonshire, who was jailed in August 2024 for a racist post on Twitter/ X
Lucy Connolly was ‘manhandled’ by officers and forcibly moved to ‘The Bronx’, a wing at HMP Peterborough for violent prisoners; ‘she was petrified’, says her husband, Ray
Allison Pearson

It comes to something when a senior British politician has to visit a person in prison, not only to show his support but to try to protect her against further harm...

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