I AM sending this letter as a father, grandfather and great- grandad.

I am dismayed yet again to read of people who have committed crimes against children physically or by possessing child abuse images, who are walking away with sentences that don’t fit the gravity of the crime.

This is because of the damage done to society by the politically correct brigade crying about the rights of the perpetrators of these horrific crimes that destroy the lives of their child victims.

It is about time the politicians got a grip of this situation and put new legislation in place to make sure that judges and magistrates can no longer let the the perpetrators of crimes of this nature only get a slap on the wrist instead of a custodial sentence.

Paul Pennington, via email