SIR – In her letter (T&A, March 11), tearing a strip off T Tordoff for asking if a young offender had been flogged for his barbaric act, Mary Moorhouse says violence breeds violence.
It is obviously true, but Ms M, you have it the wrong way round.
Mr Tordoff did not cause the brat to fire a BB gun at a fireman, it was the brat’s violence that caused the wrath of Mr T.
I just wonder what her reaction would have been if it had been a member of her family that had been shot. I imagine she is against a slap on the hand, even, of the unruly child.
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