Letter: The danger of strangers

I READ with some astonishment your article 'An Englishwoman abroad' (8 August). I refer in particular to the two young women who were raped. These young women accepted invitations from totally unknown foreign men to visit a hotel room and a cabin on a ferry. I did not expect to find such navety in this generation.

I am over 60. In my youth I was aware of the dangers of accepting a car ride or an invitation to visit a stranger's hotel room or lodgings. In my day it was understood that by accepting such an invitation a woman left herself open to the man making sexual advances.

I am not in any way condoning rape but these two young woman certainly walked into a dangerous situation.

Effie S Mostafa

Ayr