I DO not know what this Government and the criminal courts are mucking about at when dealing with this country's yob culture.

What this nation needs to sort these yobs out are some hard and fast deterrents.

It makes my blood boil to read about yobs who have mugged and robbed an elderly person and only getting an 18 month sentence. A minimum sentence for this sort of behaviour should be ten years with no early release.

This early release system for good behaviour in prison also needs kicking into touch.

If good behaviour was apparent before they entered prison they would not be there in the first place.

T Simpkin,

Cranbrook Road,

Boroughbridge Road, York.

Updated: 08:45 Monday, May 30, 2005