Dear Sir,

I am writing to express my disgust and nausea at the Home Secretary and the five law lords for determining (in their vindictive wisdom) that Myra Hindley should remain in prison, after already having spent 35 years there, and although she is a danger to no one (Law lords reject Hindley's plea for early release, 31 March 2000).

1500 years after being officially converted to Christianity, at heart we are still barbarians, putting hate and retribution before love and forgiveness.

I was 15 years old when Myra Hindley was sent to prison, where she has been for my entire adult life.

If we are going to behave like barbarians, why not go the whole hog and bring back capital punishment and public executions. Surely the public has a right to see evil villains dangling from the gallows! And Home
Secretaries a duty to fulfil its wishes!

The hypocrisy and injustice of it! Mass murderer and torturer, Pinochet, who was a head-of-state and knew exactly what he was doing, is let off scot-free on "humanitarian" grounds, while Hindley has to spend her entire life behind bars for an evil crime that she was probably far less accountable for.

With disgust and shame for the self-righteous hypocricy and barbarism of my "right honourable" fellow countrymen,