Reading the comments of Des Turner MP on sterilisation (February 15), I am bitterly disappointed I supported this short-sighted MP at the last election.

He speaks of civil liberties as though they are entitlements for the duration, lasting from the cradle to the grave, come what may, giving no consideration to the civil liberties of the next born of this parent who subjected her offspring to the most unspeakable cruelty.

This fiend, in the eyes of most level-headed people, has forfeited her civil liberties once and for all.

-Dean Martin, Brighton