REGARDING your article in the Bolton Evening News on February 25: "Terrified couple set to quit shop".

I know Mr and Mrs Bhabhani and their family, and a nicer couple you couldn't wish to meet. They are always very pleasant when you go into their shop, and the children are very well behaved.

So why should they have to quit the shop? Because the idiots who cause trouble and have their heads covered by hoods know that there isn't a deterrent. Extra police patrols, although reassuring the public, don't bother them because they know they can't touch them.

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