Anger as Cherie Blair spares devout man from jail

by Ruth Gledhill and Jenny Booth
Times Online
February 5, 2010

http://www.islamist-watch.org/3160/anger-as-cherie-blair-spares-devout-man-from-jail

Excerpt:

Cherie Blair is to be investigated by the organisation that deals with complaints against judges after she gave a more lenient sentence to a Muslim offender because he was "religious".

The Judicial Complaints Office is to look into a complaint by the National Secular Society that Mrs Blair, who practises law under her maiden name of Booth, suspended a six-month jail sentence passed on Shamso Miah on the ground that he was devout.

Miah was convicted at the Inner London Crown Court last month of assault after he broke a stranger's jaw. Terry Sanderson, president of the society, said: "We think this is discriminatory and unjust. and we wish to make a formal complaint about it. It's wrong that someone so high-profile as Mrs Blair — and she is very high-profile as a Catholic — should make such remarks in court."

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