I have just been reading a letter by retired detective inspector Jim Oldcorn in your copy of Lancashire Telegraph on December 24.

(He was commenting about Jordan Monaghan murdering his partner and two infant children and other horrific case and calling for capital punishment).

What he has to say is absolutely bang on.

I have wondered over the years what a life sentence really is.

If a life sentence is handed down then it should mean exactly that.

It should not be a minimum of so many years and then released either on parole or for good behaviour.

These poor kiddies that have been killed.

The punishment should fit the crime.

Good on ya, Jim Oldcorn. You have my backing 100 per cent.

Gerry Roberts, Colne

 

SIR - The Paris prosecutor's office has received a manslaughter lawsuit from the French humanitarian organisation Utopia 56.

This accuses French and British rescue services of failing to offer sufficient help to at least 27 people who perished in the Channel recently.

Well, conversely perhaps lawsuits should be started against all those who put to sea in flimsy boats in the Channel and consequently put at risk the lives of those in the rescue services.

This cannot all be a one way thing.

Bob Watson