I'M sick and tired (and so are many other people in this area) of reading about Charles Ingram.

Why are we giving so much publicity to a cheat and a liar, not only to the game show but with insurance companies. He was found guilty and anyone found guilty of anything has to pay.

He was lucky not to have gone to prison in the first place, "due to having children". How many other parents have to go to prison, children or not? If he can't or won't pay, then he, like anyone else, has to serve a prison sentence. As for calling him a "local celebrity" what an insult to people who earn that title. Also why do we still call him "Major"? It is an insult to the armed forces to which he no longer belongs, to use that title.

To give him half a page of your newspaper giving a sob story about how broke he is and how he was refused public funds is completely unnecessary.

As for running a marathon for charity, so what? Do we need to know that? How many other thousands of ordinary people do things like that for charity and their names never get mentioned or even want to be mentioned because they do it for the charity.

By calling him a celebrity you almost make us feel that we need to do wrong in order to be recognised.

Let's drop the Major Ingram subject once and for all.

R ROBERTS

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