Last week's front page was an interesting article conservatively written but with an element of teasing the public.

By doing this you have created a two tier public. Those who are associated

with the paper or courts or who happened to attend a public hearing (or who

know any of those people), and those who read your paper and are in the "you

dont know group".

The newspaper does not have the role of protector of the public, I suspect

you have stepped into the domain of other professions here, and to say you

took the advice of the police is most certainly not open and honest

reporting of a public trial.

Turning the public into children will not help to resolve a difficult social

issue. Infantalising adults simply beacause you think some of them may act

in a hot headed way is not an appropriate response and represents an abuse

of the power you have been given by the financial supporters of your paper.

Information is power and you evidently believe that newspaper workers and

their friends and families are more responsible holders of that power than

the rest of us.

I believe you are wrong.

From a concerned parent