SIR - The fundamental responsibility of the Home Office is the security and protection of the people of this country.

By total ineptitude, gross negligence and dereliction of duty it has proved to the greatest danger we face and has already cost the lives of many people in this country, causing misery and lifetime nightmares to thousands more.

The only option they have is to plead insanity, by constantly having new laws thrust upon them by totally mad legislators.

The Home Office is also scared to death of making a decision for fear of the dark shadow of the Human Rights Act and its accomplice Political Correctness.

Gary Lorriman, North Walk, Harden