HOW nice it is to see Chris Moncrieff return to his usual self (The Press, May 3).

He repeated the myth about an illegal immigrant who couldn’t be deported because of his pet cat.

Actually, the cat had nothing to do with it. The Home Office misapplied its own guidelines concerning unmarried partners.

I’m not making it up. If you doubt that, or want more, search the web for IA/14578/2008.

The judgement even includes a joke about Bolivian mice.

Remarkably, Moncrieff repeats this nonsense in a piece in which he also bemoans the prevalence of spin, and criticises David Cameron for not checking his facts.

Alan Robinson, Holgate, York