IN the World Tonight page (LET, May 22), I was loath to read about one Christina Sanchez who had apparently completed her last bullfight at junior level.

What was particularly barbaric was the fact that she took five attempts - which I believe is not that unusual - to slaughter this already tormented and tortured animal, and throughout the bloody scene of this butchery, the crowds cheered.

What sort of depraved people would actually want to go and pay to watch and enjoy the suffering of another.

It would probably be the same mentality that made Romans flock to watch Christians being thrown to the lions.

B JONES (MISS), Lytham Road, Blackburn.

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