SIR – In his Fair Point column ‘We have to be tougher on criminals’ (Worcester News, August 7), James Connell bemoaned the fact that a man who had “butted someone until he had a black eye, a cut lip and a badly swollen face” received 100 hours of unpaid work and had to pay the victim £50 in compensation.
However, in his Fair Point column ‘Let men be men (for all their faults)’ (Worcester News, September 10), he wrote that he reserves the right “to get in drunken macho scrapes with total strangers” and that “men are designed to be dangerous”.
I expect that Mr Connell would be disappointed if he heard someone repeat this to magistrates or a judge in order to justify their violent behaviour.
NEIL LAURENSON
Worcester
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