YOUR eulogy to the murdered cat-burglar Charlie Clark hard on the heels of a recent feature on the Krays, really makes me wonder what sort of message you are trying to put across to your readers.
Mr Clark is described as having been "a very kind and popular man". But I somehow don't think that that is how the victims of his crimes will remember him.
Having one's home burgled, and cherished possessions stolen, can be a traumatic experience for many people, especially the elderly, who may never fully recover from the shock.
I feel great sympathy for Mr Clark in that he suffered first the horrors of senile dementia, and then brutal murder at the hands of a more violent, younger version of himself. But making heroes of criminals is a reckless suspension of moral values.
Your newspaper often laments the level of violent crime and bad behaviour in our area, not least amongst the young. Hence the paramount importance of parents, schools, civic leaders and the media making clear that theft is wrong, and violent assault inexcusable.
JONATHAN FRYER,
Forest Drive West,
Leytonstone
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