After reading the story about what an idyllic Utopia of a place Downland Court is (Argus, December 6), two and two just do not add up.
A few weeks ago I read of a stabbing there and of a TV set being thrown through a window. Last week a letter signed by residents of Downland Court told of what hell it is to live there.
Friends living there say they would give their right arm to be housed 'somewhere decent by the council'. One thing in particular perplexes me. What became of the many drug dealers, drunkards and prostitutes? Where did the council re-house them - on desert islands?
I am not convinced the evicted go anywhere but ever back and forth to Downland Court. As Abraham Lincoln said, "you can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time!"
-Dean Martin, Hollingbury Place, Brighton
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