WATCHING the FA Cup final, I couldn't help but think that if only people would show as much interest and enthusiasm about fighting crime, then perhaps we could persuade this government to bring back corporal punishment and the death penalty and also to name offenders, no matter what their age.

Maybe then we would be able to walk our streets in safety and our prisons would not be overflowing.

G ROBINSON (Mrs), Edge End, Great Harwood.

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