DNA tests have just proved that James Hanratty, the hanged A6 murderer, was guilty after all.

Will our do-gooders now please apologise for creating 40 years of uproar while they maintained his innocence?

Let them explain why they were so insistent that he was not guilty. Was it merely ignorance, or just a refusal to face the truth?

What does all this prove? That British justice was really the best.

Let us have hanging back now, for the really guilty ones.

-Richard Halfpenny, New Road, Rustington