Thank you for the article on little John Smith (The Argus, August 1).

The sadness of it all and the suffering he went through, the cruelty was beyond words.

I, for one, was at the A&E at the Royal Sussex Hospital when that little darling was brought in.

Indescribable injuries, everyone was shocked. I am a member of Unison and do not want to be any more.

Why should its members strike and waste more time? They were not around when John was brought in to hospital.

I hope justice prevails on both the McWilliams and they suffer the way John did. It is time all this cruelty stopped.

-Mary Ryan, Saltdean Vale, Saltdean