SO D Goodwin has now shown his true colours! (Letters July 11). His several letters of attack against the villagers of Highampton have nothing to do with supporting persistently offending criminals living in luxury apartments, shortly to be enhanced with super sports facilities and conference centre, at the tax payers' expense. It is all to do with envy - envy of others who are able to own their own homes.
He says that as a 27-year-old he is unable to buy his own house. I say that when I and others of the 1960s and '70s were 27-year-olds, we couldn't afford one either. But we didn't moan about it, like some. We got off our butts and built our own on DIY schemes of various types.
It took me two years to build a small dwelling for my family; but I got it completed, as did other friends on their projects, with a lot of hard graft.
Instead of spending his time whingeing, I suggest that D Goodwin goes out and makes things happen, instead of waiting for things to be handed to him on a plate.
He says he hopes that C-FAR obtain all their required funding from the Home Office. I say that with a backdrop of rising crime, I would rather the Home Office funding went towards building more prisons to enable judges and magistrates to pass sentences that are severe enough to deter persistent offenders, rather than having them pampered by C-FAR.
To my mind, the policy, that I think was on trial in the US of 'three strikes and you're out' with a life sentence, would soon reduce crime figures in the UK if it was introduced here.
Many criminals would be removed from society for very long periods, and many would be deterred from committing further crime; the effect would be a dramatic drop in crime figures. Does anybody else agree?
D G Richards
Burdon Lane
Highampton