The scenes of "Fagin's Den" (Argus, May 3) seemed to be there to shock people.

Private residential landlords in Brighton and Hove, Worthing, Eastbourne and, especially, Hastings have to put up with this sort of pressure, humiliation and financial deprivation every single day.

I take many, many calls on the Southern Private Landlords' Association hotline from landlords who experience these traumas constantly - but nobody publishes them.

Well done, The Argus, for exposing this one. Why, though, does it need a dozen police in flak jackets to evict a woman in a wheelchair when they have failed to arrest illegal drug-users when asked to - or when landlords have experienced theft by tenants (with witnesses)? Is it a question of courage?

A spokeswoman for Brighton and Hove City Council stated in the article, "We will not tolerate anti-social behaviour".

But the council did because, previously in the article, it said it had been going on for years in this council flat.

What would the time-span have been had a private landlord been involved? One month?

The council deals with private landlords in one way and its own council tenants in another, to the detriment of surrounding property-owners.

-Barry Cocum, marketing director, Southern Private Landlords' Association