WITH reference to your headline on Saturday May 14 "Just what are we coming to?"
Perhaps Judge John McNaught and his fellow judges should shoulder some of the blame for today's youth turning to a life of crime. If he and other judges were to give out tougher sentences at the first offence (nip in the bud) then prospective criminals would think twice about committing offences time and time again.
R RUMMING
Swindon
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