The White House is 'monitoring' the case of Lucy Connolly after her bid to be freed from prison over a tweet which 'stirred up racial hatred' was refused.
Connolly was jailed for 31 months after she posted an online rant about migrants hours after killer Axel Rudakubana murdered three young girls in Southport on July 29 last year.
The former childminder, who is the wife of Conservative councillor Ray Connolly, deleted the post after four hours but was arrested last August and pleaded guilty to a charge of inciting racial hatred in October.
Last week her appeal against her sentence was refused by three Court of Appeal judges meaning she faces serving another eight months behind bars.
In the wake of that decision, US officials have said they are keeping tabs on the developments in Connolly's case over their 'concerns' about free speech in Britain.
