SIR – I was appalled at your recent graphic pictures of a mentally ill and suicidal man on the river bridge, complete with an audience urging him to jump (Worcester News, August 6).

It came just over a week after you also featured a mentally distressed man on the railway line at Henwick Road (Worcester News, July 29).

It would seem that anyone with the word mental attached to them is a figure of amusement and derision.

D WOODWARD

Worcester