TWELVE months on from the brutal murder of young Kevin Sudall we read of the sadness of the mother of one of his killers - that she will never see her son outside of a prison gate (LET, June 27).

How my heart bleeds!

But not for her! She will be able to see and talk to her son through a grille and one day, maybe, he might be released. But no-one will ever release Sheila Sudall from her pain. Her son was taken away by unforgiving brutes who should never be released.

BILL REED, Garden Village, Darwen.

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