"HILTON-style immigration detention centres", where the judge has ruled it is illegal for four Iraqis to be held, and now solicitors are seeking compensation for them.

I wonder were the do-gooders, the Human Rights activists, solicitors, magistrates and judges were just after the war in 1945 when thousands of men and women were released after being locked up for five years in German and Japanese prisons and concentration camps.

All these people went there with good intentions, to do good and help people in Europe and Asia to get their freedom.

Where were they after the armed forces were used as human guinea pigs, when they were testing the atom bomb in the Christmas Isles? Why don't they try to use their energy in helping these veterans get compensation, for all their suffering and illnesses they incurred, and what about their traumatic stress after five years and, let's face it, they were not facing a football crowd.

Why don't the do-gooders and human rights activists seek compensation for all the victims who suffer from the arms of the criminals and why do they always seem to campaign on behalf of the criminals to give them better treatment in jails? It's always the poor criminals and never the poor victims.

Where do the asylum seekers get the money from? They say they pay out thousands of pounds and dollars. Who do they think they are trying to kid? Common sense tells the ordinary people in Britain that the countries they come from are so poor it would be impossible to raise so much money. They all come here because we are a soft touch and to get all the hand-outs they can get.

Why do they hide their faces and turn their backs when being filmed? Is it because they are all undesirables and criminals, not wanting to be seen?

Some £50 million has been paid out so far in keeping the illegal immigrants and yet when the pensioners and the true Brits ask for help there is never ever any money. Imagine what the Health Service could do with that.

RON Jackson,

Haydock