A teacher who was fired after a Facebook post in which he criticised Lucy Connolly's jail sentence says he has lost everything following a 'witch hunt'.
Simon Pearson has spoken out after being branded Islamophobic following his social media message about the imprisoned wife of a former Conservative councillor.
Mr Pearson, a former employee of Preston College, was subject to an internal investigation following his comment that Connolly 'should not have been jailed' - after two Facebook contacts reported him.
Connolly, 42, was given a 31-month sentence last October after pleading guilty to a charge of inciting racial hatred.
She had written on social media following last summer's Southport-related riots: '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.'
