LETTER: SENTENCING THE WHITEHEADS

From Mrs Jenny Snuggs

Sir: Patricia Whitehead said that lying is against everything she taught her children, but the children were told that their parents were "on holiday".

Is this not a lie? Surely the best lesson that the children, aged five, seven, and nine, could learn would be for the parents to admit that they had told a lie but were facing up to the consequences.

Yours faithfully,

JENNY SNUGGS

Guildford,

Surrey

23 May