IN the same issue that contained Mr Stephen Sadler's excellent remarks on the devious activities of the Lancashire Partnership for Road Safety (Letters, February 27), we read also of the unfortunate community care worker, Elizabeth Turner's six-month disqualification for unwittingly driving at speeds ranging from 35 to 38 miles per hour.

I wonder if the Burnley magistrates are not congratulating themselves on a job well done, or whether the less vengeful of them are experiencing a slight stirring of the conscience. Did it have to be six months?

It now only needs one of your occasional self-righteous correspondents to comment that Mrs Turner has broken the law, and must therefore suffer the penalty with resigned stoicism. We can then all rejoice, in the words of the Mikado, that the sublime object of making the punishment fit the crime has now been achieved.

T LONGSTAFF, Gorse Road, Blackburn.