YOU address yet addition archetype of our bare administrative system’s abridgement of abuse to “fit the crime” – or assorted crimes in this case (“Attacker will serve 19 years for the abduction and annihilation of pensioner”, The Herald, November 18).
Esther Brown’s killer, Jason Graham, 30, had 23 above-mentioned convictions, including one for rape, for which he was in bastille for alone bristles years. He was bashed and drugged, invaded her house, exhausted her up admitting her badly angry back, blanket her acclaim card, raped and murdered her. The adjudicator said he was at a aerial accident of reoffending.
But his sentence, allegedly for life, could see him appear afterwards alone 19 years aback he will still be alone 49. For such an alarming archive of crimes, why on apple are afterwards sentences not imposed, rather than concurrent?
Many of us are affected yet afresh into cerebration that until the mother, sister, wife or babe of a top baby-kisser or adjudicator suffers such an alarming and alarming end, sentencing will abide to be bare to assure the public.
John Birkett, St Andrews.
CONCERN AT REMOTE CONSULTATIONS
YOU adduce Mike McKirdy, a breast blight surgeon, as adage that added medical consultations will accept to be done accidentally to cut carbon emissions and that the “pushback” adjoin this, abnormally in primary care, is “misplaced” (“More consultations will accept to be done remotely, says top medic”, The Herald, November 15).
He describes accomplishing a aught hospital dispensary appointment amount for contiguous reviews in women with ahead diagnosed and advised breast blight when, before, there were about 3,000 visits a year in his hospital. Attendance now is alone for a mammogram and blight surveillance is contrarily conducted around as, apparently, “absolutely no value” was begin in a contiguous outpatient dispensary appointment with a doctor.
However, it is one affair to admonish alien appointment for the aftereffect of patients already diagnosed and advised and absolutely addition to apostle this for those gluttonous absorption from their accepted practitioners for a analysis and treatment. There is already affair that alien consultations are dabbling the analysis of blight and added conditions. To abate greenhouse gas emissions should not be a acumen not to be apparent contiguous by one’s accepted practitioner. GPs accept become alien enough.
Dr Stefan D Slater, Retired Consultant Physician, Edinburgh.
MORE MYTHS ABOUT CULLODEN
I NOTE yet addition alleged history assignment bare of ancestry (“Snatching defeat from aperture of achievement … aback Bonnie Prince Charlie about took England”, The Herald, November 18). The numbers of Jacobite asleep at Culloden accept been quoted at 1,500 to 2,000; in television’s Blood of the Clans, the cardinal was put at 700. Struan Stevenson has now racked the cardinal aback up to added than 1,200. Isn’t it funny that the cardinal of Jacobite broadswords recovered afterwards the action and which now adhere on the bank of Inveraray Castle never alter up or bottomward from 190?
As for Derby, no acknowledgment is fabricated of two of the best analytical factors abaft the accommodation to about-face back, namely the abridgement of promised abutment from English Jacobites and the abridgement of any allusive advice from France. A lesser-known access was that of the alone aborigine in the war council, namely Alasdair MacDonell, arch of Keppoch. One of his greatest admirers was none added than Accepted Wade, who would banquet with him at Keppoch Abode while alley architecture in the breadth some two decades earlier. Professor Bruce Lenman declared him as “an able little bandit”, but his aptitude went abundant further, in that it was his adeptness to aroma a rat at 50 afar which afflicted his opinion. It was his accident when, on Culloden Moor, he smelled one at 50 feet.
As for all the drivel about the Jacobites actuality in a accompaniment of starvation, has cipher noticed that Culloden is alone a few afar from the affluent farmland active by clans Fraser and Chisholm, nor that, three canicule later, aback they regrouped at Ruthven, they were in aerial alcohol with no curtailment of anything?
George F Campbell, Glasgow.
GLORYING IN OLD TEXT BOOKS
WHAT a joy it was to be reacquainted with, the amount of accent Zeugma, or Condensed Sentence, a favourite of abundance from my English chic at Whitehill Senior Secondary School in the backward 1950s (Letters, November 15).
My argument book again was A Study of Standard English, aboriginal consequence 1938, and co-written by James Barclay, MA (Albert Secondary School, Glasgow), David H Knox, MA (Hutchesons’ Boys’ Grammar School, Glasgow) and George B Ballantyne, MA (Paisley Grammar School). Both Knox and Barclay would go on to address Approach to Standard English in 1942 in acknowledgment to the appeal of assorted agents for a inferior copy of their beforehand title.
I still accept these books, adorned on the central covers with the names and chic numbers of beforehand students,but like your correspondent, Robin Johnston, abhorrence that , in animosity of these accomplished civil argument books, the teaching of the bigger credibility of English accent is “conspicuous by its absence”.
David G Will, Milngavie.
BERTIE AULD’S HAT TRICK
I READ with abundant absorption Brian Wilson’s obituary of Bertie Auld, with its memorable photo of Bertie cutting a hat afterwards the Leeds bold (“Lisbon Lion who became an accurate banal football hero”, The Herald, November 18). It fabricated me smile.Thanks to my big brother Shug I accustomed an allurement to appear the Lisbon Lions’ consecration into the Hall of Fame at Hampden. Shug appropriately alien me to Bertie and afterwards a big hug I asked him: area did you get the hat? “I nabbed it off the heid of a photographer,” he said mischievously. A appearance and a admirable man.
Roddy MacDonald, Ayr.
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