Crime: let’s start by enforcing the laws we’ve got

ANN STAFFORD (Letters, March 15) singled out Gay Mitchell MEP for some rather unfair criticism.

She said his rejection of a call for new draconian laws in response to the murders of two Polish men in Drimnagh made her “sick”.

She went on to say communities across Dublin have been calling for such measures “for decades, but have been ignored” and that it is “a real kick in the stomach to know our politicians have no desire to change the law”.