IT is not a tradition in Britain to go around demanding money with menaces. This is breaking the law. So what is Trick or Treat?

I think PC John Westlake (Malvern Gazette, October 15) and I have a different idea of fun. It seems wrong to me that the police and retailers seem happy to promote a pastime, which is technically breaking the law and upsets a great many people.

WILLIAM ATKINSON, Pound Bank Road, Malvern.