A UKIP MEP desperate to make a name for herself demanded yesterday that the death penalty be reinstated exactly 50 years after Britain’s final execution.

Loudmouthed Louise Bours demanded criminals be killed in an outburst designed to spark controversy on the macabre anniversary.

But her call was dismissed by human rights campaigner Frances Cook, who told the Star: “Some random Ukip MEP ranting about it not going to get anywhere.” 

Ms Bours claimed there was a public clamour for “natural justice” to be dished out by the state. 

“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,” she said.

The shameless MEP even used the brutal murder of Army drummer Lee Rigby to justify herself. 

“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’,” she added. 

Howard League for Penal Reform chief executive Ms Cook took on Ms Bours in a TV debate over the issues on Tuesday. 

She said the MEP was “all over the place” as her cheap bid to make political capital from the issue came under scrutiny. 

Ms Cook told the Star: “She said she supported capital punishment but not the death penalty. The poor women was in a little bit of a muddle. 

“I think she was trying to get some press attention without really knowing anything about the subject.”

In Ms Bours’s carefully planned press release, the North West England MEP stressed that was not party policy. 

But Ukip chiefs fancy Ms Bours as a leading female face of their party.

She represented Ukip on BBC’s Question Time shortly after being elected in May. 

Her stunt came after Tory MPs launched their own bid to have the death sentence returned to the statute book. 

It was among backbench bills tabled in Parliament last year by a right-wing cabal led by Tory Peter Bone.