I WRITE in response to the story Knives pair send warning to traders LET January 19).

Perhaps Mr Hilliard could, being the responsible businessman that he obviously is, explain just what a knife or blade disguised as a pen or lipstick or indeed a hairbrush is to be used for in this country by his former customers?

I feel they would not be used as 'innocent' letter openers or would they? The answer is surely revealed in the name of his company, "Spytech"!

EDDIE CONNELL, Branch Road, Mellor Brook.