The Sentencing Council has been blasted by Peter Bleksley for their "discriminatory" recommendations, following Labour's plan to "crack down" on their "two-tier" system.
Speaking to GB News, the former Scotland Yard Detective said the Council "only has itself to blame" for the intervention by the Government.
The Government is set to change the law and give Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood the power to veto the recommendations from the Sentencing Council.
The decision was sparked by the council's "two-tier" recommendations, after issuing guidelines which recommended more lenient sentences to those from "ethnic minorities".
Peter Bleksley tore into the 'discriminatory' Sentencing Council amid Labour's 'two-tier' crackdown
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Discussing the move by Labour, Mr Bleksley told GB News: "The Sentencing Council only has itself to blame, because in an act of crass stupidity earlier on this year, they issued these guidelines which were not only about was ethnic minorities, but if you had a faith or a cultural background, then there had to be a pre-sentencing report.
"And therefore, those kind of people might be treated differently to a white born and bred English bloke who fell foul of the law.
"And of course people were outraged because it's discriminatory, it's treating people differently, probably for the same kind of crime and therefore they brought it upon themselves."
Backing the decision by the Justice Secretary, Mr Bleksley added: "I think this is a good decision. If they can't actually issue guidelines that are kind of fair then they shouldn't be issuing any at all."
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The former detective disagreed, stating: "It's not that simple as just looking at the data. Each and every judge in the land will hand down a sentence according to, of course, the guidelines that are handed down.
"But the aggravating, in other words, the bad factors and the mitigating factors that might be taken into account on behalf of any convicted person, and upon those factors, judges hand down their sentences."
Criticising those within the Sentencing Council, Mr Bleksley called for members of the public to be "trusted to serve" in the council, rather than exclusively "those in the legal system".
Mr Bleksley told GB News that members of the public 'should be trusted to serve on the council'
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Mr Bleksley explained: "There's a broader issue here about the Sentencing Council. If you look at the make up of it, almost exclusively everybody that serves on that council is a part of the legal system, the legal establishment. They're judges, barristers.
"I would say if members of the public are allowed to return the most important decisions in courts, and that of course is verdicts about people's guilt or innocence, then shouldn't members of the public be entrusted to serve on the Sentencing Council?"
He concluded: "Because looking through the list of people on there today, I doubt there wasn't anybody on the Sentencing Council who's come down in the morning to find that their tools have been nicked out of their van or they've had their phones snatched as they've left the tube station and so on and so forth.
"The Sentencing Council needs normal people on it to bring some kind of perspective from the street."