I would like to ask the selfish speeding van driver who ran over my daughter's cat on Bank Holiday Monday around 4pm: "Why didn't you stop and try to do something?"

Instead, you left the cat to drag himself into our driveway and lie screaming in agony from appalling injuries right in front of us. You must have known you had hit him and, had you stopped, we might have got him to the vet's sooner.

As it was, he died in the car before we could get him there.

He might have been just a cat to you but, to us, he was a very much-loved part of our family and we are all heartbroken.

-Lisa Newman, Poplar Avenue, Hove