MR Ramkissoon, above, the martial artist practising with his training sword in his garden, should consider himself lucky when the police arrived (Evening Press, August 31).

If he had been walking home from the pub carrying a repaired chair leg he would have been shot on sight and the police responsible for his killing would not have been punished at all.

Or does that only happen to Irishmen in London?

Dr Duncan Campbell,

Albemarle Road, York.

Updated: 11:06 Tuesday, September 07, 2004