IWAS in Blackburn town centre when a little boy bumped into me.

His mother (I presume) dragged him away and started to beat him about the head. He was terrified.

I felt so sorry for the child. I did not dare say anything as I was afraid she might start on me. She was about 14 stone, I am eight and a half stone and 82-years-old.

How do we stop these bullies, because that is all they are? The boy was about seven years old.

MRS L BURSCOUGH, St Helier Close, Blackburn.