I WRITE in response to a letter by Joan Sourbutts headed 'Vengeance and justice different' (LET, December 22).

I do not know how the parents of Amy Houston must have felt on reading this letter, but in my opinion the writer seems to have more sympathy for Mr Ibrahim than for Amy.

She points out that it could have been any driver in any car on the road at any time. What a load of rubbish.

The point is that not only should Mr Ibrahim have not have been in a car driving without tax or insurance, due to the fact that he had been banned from driving twice previously, he should not have even been in the country after exhausting all his appeal options to stay in the United Kingdom, and only received the pathetic sentence of four months.

Our present government has given Mr Brahim and many more thousands like him protection from persecution, because they are in fear of their lives in their native country. The question I would like an answer to is who is going to protect us from the likes of Mr Ibrahim?

It's OK to be a do-gooder like Mrs Sourbutts and turn the other cheek, when you're not the victim.

ROY DAVIES,

Olive Lane, Darwen.