I WONDER if the Countryside Alliance will comment on the Scottish gamekeeper who admitted killing 20 birds of prey.

The birds died to protect birds being born, fed and raised for slaughter. Not for good but for the pleasure of the 'guns' and the profit of the estate.

It is worth noting that the gamekeeper has been 'suspended' and not sacked.

Will we get a letter from the Countryside Alliance about the protection of the investment in blasting birds out of the sky for pleasure? Protection that involved the poisoning of birds of prey facing extinction.

D PRATT (Mr), Plantation Street, Accrington.