THE story "Court shock for a victim of the yobs" March 3 about law abiding citizen Dean Harrison who ended up being penalised for protecting his family and home from yobs shows quite clearly that our laws, or for that matter, the police, do not, and will not, protect normal law abiding people from law breakers.

I wonder if Lord Justice Latham and Mr Justice Davis of London High Court have ever been woken up in the middle of the night by "feral hoodie yobs" smashing their patio door windows having been subjected to two years of verbal and violent threatening abuse.

I wonder if such an event were to happen, would the police make them wait four hours for a police officer to attend only to be issued a "crime number". I wonder if, after repeated requests over two years, the police might just be prepared to seek out the undesirables responsible for such repeated requests for a police response at a cost of thousands of pounds of public money.

Of course, in reality, if you happened to be "Lord Justice Latham or Mr Justice Davis" the police response would be swift, concise and conclusive. The offenders would be caught, convicted and imprisoned with the minimum delay.

When is the normal law-abiding, hard- working citizen going to be protected from this ever growing menace of poorly educated, trainer wearing, weapon carrying, cowardly low life so called "hoodie" scum?

Decent people consider taking the law into their own hands because the law does not protect them.

Bill White Masefield Drive Newbury, Farnworth