SIR - I read that three terrorists have been given life' imprisonment for plotting to destroy parts of England, killing tens of thousands of innocent English people in the process.

If life' in England means 20 years, and the cost of keeping these terrorists is £35,000 each, per year, then it seems, to me, these same three terrorists are going to cost the people they intended to murder well over £2 million.

After this, they will be set free, deported, return as illegal immigrants and continue their original programme.

Tell me, what is wrong with us?

J Lewis Nicholl, Plumpton Gardens, Wrose