Row Erupts as New Rules Ease Imprisonments for ‘Ethnic, Cultural, or Faith Minorities’ – Guido Fawkes

Row Erupts as New Rules Ease Imprisonments for ‘Ethnic, Cultural, or Faith Minorities’

Tory and Reform MPs alike are jumping on the latest guidelines from the Sentencing Council which go into effect next month. They include new differential rules for people of “minority” races or faiths…

Robert Jenrick raised the issue in the Commons and asked Shabana Mahmood why pre-sentence reports – which lower the likelihood of imprisonment – are to be “considered necessary” for individuals “from an ethnic minority, cultural minority, and/or faith minority community.” Mahmood replied:

“As somebody who is of an ethnic minority background myself I do not stand for any differential treatment before the law for anyone of any kind and there will never be a two-tier sentencing approach under my watch or under this Labour government.”

That doesn’t come close to explaining the new bizarre guidelines. The government has a representative on that Sentencing Council. Labour will have to get a grip of this one…

UPDATE: On cue, Mahmood claims she did not know about this. Despite government representative Claire Fielding being present at the sign-off meeting…