SIR – I feel compelled to write to you on a matter I feel very strongly about.

On March 5, yet another horrendous murderer was sent to prison for 37 years after being found guilty of a really terrible murder of a young woman who was dismembered.

Do Worcester News readers realise that all of us will be paying for his food and accommodation – no doubt in prisons with plenty of comfort and recreation made available – for these 37 years?

Surely this is wrong. Why, oh why, should we pay for this man out of our taxation?

Another point, life should be life.

D NEWSHAM

Evesham