Reader's letter

How could you even consider putting the face of Alison McKinnon, arrested in Istanbul after allegedly being caught with heroin, on the front of your paper ('Face Of Despair', March 21)?

Have you thought about the faces of young people dying day after day because of her?

Have you thought about the despair of parents watching their children losing their soul and body once trapped in a life with drugs?

If guilty, she deserves the worst possible Turkish prison where she will be able to start thinking about the hundreds of lives she has ruined for ever.

D Boon,

East Mount Road,

York.

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