Cherie Blair has been under fire for suspending a sentence of a man who broke someone's jaw.
...She told him: 'I am going to suspend this sentence for the period of two years based on the fact you are a religious person and have not been in trouble before.
'You caused a mild fracture to the jaw of a member of the public standing in a queue at Lloyds Bank.
'You are a religious man and you know this is not acceptable behaviour.'
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1248402/Cherie-Blair-spares-violent-thug-jail-religious-man.html#ixzz0ebcxMdsX
In a blog post entitled Cherie Booth unfair to atheists? Andrew Brown asks the following question.
If I can dig out from the Home Office any statistics on the correlation between religious belief and re-offending rates, they would add some facts to the discussion. I will try. If they showed that religious belief made it less likely to re-offend, would judges be justified in taking it into account?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/andrewbrown/2010/feb/04/religion-cherieblair
Interesting question. I await his answer with bated breath.
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