In response to your front page story on January 25, I should like to offer my congratulations to Mr Chillman for tackling the youths who have been brought up (if that is not too flattering a phrase) to believe that they can go through life getting away with whatever mischief takes their fancy.

As for the man who attacked him, I trust that someone had the presence of mind to note the registration of his vehicle, and that that has been passed on to the police.

It is a pity that you felt obliged to blank our the features of the youth in Mr Chillman's custody, becuase I am sure a lot of your readers would be interested to know who he was!

Some things, however, can be seen from the pictures; namely, the battered condition of the bike strongly suggests that it is stolen, not the property of its rider, the boy himself is obviously under age to be riding even a 50cc bike and he was riding without a helmet.

The man involved, therefore, besides being happy to commit GBH, is conniving all these things on the part of the children, and, given the state of the bike and the lack of safety gear, is probably not in the least concerned that one or more of his charges may break their neck, a lack of concern that presumably also applies to their parents, which the laws of nature suggest must exist somewhere.

Of course, it is also a law of nature that like begets like, and so this cycle of vicious and uncaring parents producing vicious and uncaring children will continue until some definite steps are taken to break it.

What those steps might be I hesitate to suggest, but as a last resort the only solution might be to completely remove those children, at a very young age, from the unfluence of the adults who will corrupt them.

In the meantime, we are stuck with a generation who, whether they are to be regarded as deprived or depraved (there is only one letter difference), must not be permitted to go on making a misery of the lives of the neighbours who have to share their world.

If Mr Chillman is a grass' then let there be many more like him - enough to turf the new Wembley Stadium!

Margaret Scroggs, Farmland Walk, Chislehurst