If you let a child get away with throwing a stone at a car at the age of three, he or she might think it is all right to throw concrete slabs off of motorway walkways when aged 14 or 15.
People might laugh that a three-year-old's name was taken down for lobbing a stone at a passing car but what I want to know is why his older siblings (who were said to be with him) didn't stop him in the first place?
His mother might be indignant her son's name has been taken down by the police but she should count herself lucky he is below the age of criminal responsibility, otherwise he would have been arrested and charged - and rightly so.
-Suchi Chatterjee, St James's Street, Brighton
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