Teacher sacked over Lucy Connolly comments speaks out: 'I was persecuted for being a Christian!'

 A teacher has said he was persecuted for being a Christian after he suggested Lucy Connolly was a victim of "two-tier policing."

Simon Pearson said he was accused of Islamophobia after he told a private Facebook group he believed Connolly should not have been jailed. 

A disciplinary process was launched into the 56-year-old after a complaint was made by a Muslim representative of the National Education Union (NEU). Pearson told The Telegraph he believed he would still have been in a job if he had been accused of offending Christians as opposed to Muslims.

Lucy Connolly was arrested and imprisoned after she posted on social media: "Mass deportation now, set fire to all the f***ng hotels full of the b******s for all I care." Pearson, who is originally from Southport, posted a message to his private Facebook group where he criticised the comment as "appalling" but added she should not have been jailed.

He posted to the group: "People presumed the worst and were outraged by the killing of three little girls. It was wrong but how many Islamists plots and crimes have been experienced in our country.

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