22-05-2025
EXCLUSIVE She's suffered enough: Lucy Connolly's furious friends reveal how needless death of her toddler son left her with a deep distrust of authority - and fuelled her rage-filled tweet when she found out about Southport murder
Hardened criminals come in many shapes and sizes. But, on the face of it, Lucy Connolly appears very far removed from anybody's idea of a thuggish jailbird.
Until recently, the 42-year-old childminder lived a pretty unremarkable life. Each morning, toddlers would be dropped off in her charge at her pleasant 1930s semi on a tree-lined avenue in a Northampton suburb and she would watch over them as they played in the garden.
