SIR – One gets tired of reading about wrongdoers in our society and I, for one, am delighted when they are apprehended and sentenced.

The thief who laughed when Jem Mallison broke his kneecap trying to mount his bike, then rode off on it (T&A, November 28) might also live to regret doing so.

“He that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished.”

D Rhodes, Croscombe Walk, Bradford