an example of current british 'justice';

Lucy Connolly has been released from jail after being handed what is believed to be the longest prison sentence for a single social media post.

Mrs Connolly, 42, left HMP Peterborough, a mixed men’s and women’s prison, with muted fanfare on Thursday after serving more than 300 days in prison.

She was jailed last year for 31 months over a comment made in the wake of the Southport attack.

While other inmates released this morning were greeted jubilantly by waiting relatives, Mrs Connolly departed quietly in a Skoda taxi which had been allowed inside the prison to collect her.

As she was driven to freedom, she turned her face away from waiting photographers and reporters and chose not to speak.

At the family home, a semi-detached property on a quiet street on the outskirts of Northampton, her husband was awaiting her return.

Ray Connolly, a Tory councillor who was busy watering hanging baskets in the couple’s front garden, said the couple’s focus was to “get our lives back on track”.

He said that both he and Mrs Connolly had coped with her imprisonment “relatively well’.

However, Mr Connolly added: “The only person who hasn’t is our 12-year-old daughter. She has found it very difficult not having her mum at home.........more..........