Lucy Connolly has revealed she is planning legal action against the police as she told of her 377-day prison ordeal for the first time.
Ms Connolly, 42, who was jailed for a ‘racist’ tweet last year, also accused Sir Keir Starmer of holding her as a political prisoner.
The childminder from Northampton added she would be meeting with Trump officials over what she sees as a ‘free speech crackdown’ in the UK.
Ms Connolly told The Telegraph: ‘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.’
‘I have no issue with people’s skin, colour, race, religion, anything of that,’ she added.
‘It’s simply the fact that this particular group of people are unchecked and I don’t feel that it’s safe for our children to be walking the streets of people that we don’t know.’
She spent more than a year behind bars for making the inflammatory post on X in the wake of the Southport attacks in July last year.
Ms Connolly, who is the wife of Tory councillor Ray Connolly, pleaded guilty to a charge of inciting racial hatred and was handed a 31-month sentence in October, having been held on remand following her arrest last August.
The post, which she later deleted, said: ‘Mass deportation now, set fire to all the f****** hotels full of the b******* for all I care… if that makes me racist so be it.’
Connolly’s imprisonment had prompted allegations that she was a victim of ‘two-tier justice’, with claims that those with right-wing views are treated more harshly than others in the UK.
The 42-year-old’s prison sentence became a cause célèbre among campaigners, and supporters argued her sentence was a politicised response to last August’s ‘far right’ Southport rioting.
Many pointed out that criminals who commit crimes such as burglary or assault receive lesser sentences, with Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch questioning today: ‘Why exactly did the Attorney General think that was in the public interest?’
She had been serving time at HMP Peterborough and had an application to have her sentence reduced rejected in May.
