The wife of former prime minister Tony Blair was sitting as a judge at Inner London crown court when Shamso Miah, a 25-year-old man from Redbridge, came up before her.
He had broken a man's jaw after getting involved in a fight over queue-jumping in a high street bank. Ms Booth told Miah his prison sentence would be suspended because he was a religious person and had no previous convictions.
The British Humanist Association's chief executive Andrew Copson commented: "Cherie Booth's remarks show a default assumption still made by too many in society that you are a good person if you are religious – that there is something intrinsically and self-evidently good about being religious and, conversely, that if you are non-religious you are somehow less moral."
"This is an assumption that persists despite there being no evidence whatsoever to support it."
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