Well done, Nyana Joti, whose posing as a victim of war, covered with fake blood and lying, as if dead, on Churchill Square's pavement, allegedly caused a ten-year-old child to scream hysterically because it looked so real (The Argus, September 5).

And well done to District Judge Ann Arnold for dismissing the charges against him of "threatening, abusive or insulting behaviour likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress".

The irony is that any informed individual would wish for such a demonstration to cause horror distress.

Today we live in a society where war is glamourised and sanitised. Nobody is repulsed by the carnage that 10-year-old children watch on TV in films like Rambo.

But there are still thousands of older people who lived through the bombings of the Second World War and remember what it was like.

I remember being at a firework display in Berlin in 1951 and being stunned at the hysterical screaming from young teenagers at the loud bangs.

They had been taken back to the weeks of heavy bombing.

Today, thousands of Iraqi kids have themselves been killed and mutilated by missiles and bombs.

That a parent should even think to institute legal procedures against this man's valiant attempt to shake our sheltered community into understanding the reality of war is obscene.

-Dr Bob Potter, Hove