Bring back the death penalty

Louise Bours, MEP is one of the party’s national spokesmen, and made the comments as figures were revealed showing one-in-nine murderers are set free after less than 10 years in prison. She said: “The public are fed up with the government’s concentration on  the rights of the criminal, and are demanding the rights of victims and their families should take priority. “The death penalty won’t bring back a tortured and murdered child, but  it seems natural justice that the family will know the killer has paid the ultimate price and isn’t still breathing when their child is not.

“An innocent child has more of a right to life than the monster that took their life, so I see no ethical reason why we are obliged to keep  him alive.

 “Why should double cop-killer Dale Cregan be kept alive, after shooting them more than 8 times and using a hand-grenade. His crime wasn’t impulsive or emotional, he lured them in with a fake 999 call and he’d killed two other people prior to that.

“Paul Bone, the father of murdered WPC Fiona Bone agrees that the death penalty should be brought back, and as his life has been devastated by a cold-blooded killer, I think his views should be listened to.

“The killers of Lee Rigby despise the UK and want to kill us all, yet we have to use tax-payers money to keep them alive and well in prison, and look after their ‘human-rights’. Although Ms Bours is in favour of the ultimate sentence, it is not official party policy.

She added: “The country has not had a debate on this issue for 10 years.

“UKIP believe in direct democracy, which means referendums on major issues, where the public demand one.

“If there were a referendum , I would support a return of the death penalty for certain types of crimes.