REGARDING the front page headline, "Who Killed Daft Dave?" about the murder of Mr David Spencer (LET, March 9), I have to say your description of this man is despicable, deplorable and totally unnecessary.

No-one, whoever they are, deserves to be called this and what right have you to print it?

I didn't know David Spencer at all but, if truth be known, he was probably more intelligent than you or I and the people who named him this in the first place.

M RAWLINSON (Mrs), Bath Street, Blackburn.

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