WHAT a horrible place Swindon has become when a couple of pensioners can be beaten up by four robbers in their own home.

Until they and every other rotten scumbag in this town are caught the police should hang their heads in shame.

Perhaps if they spent less of their time fiddling the crime figures they would have more time to do something about crime in the first place.

I can’t wait for the next time the police and crime commissioner, the chief constable and all the rest of them start to go on that there’s less crime and there’s no need to be frightened.

What I would like to do now is have copies made of the pictures of that poor old lady with her beaten up face and stick them on every window of the crime commissioner’s office and the chief constable’s too. I want them to see that woman’s face every time they think of opening their mouths.

I wish people would have the picture put on to clothes and posters and then we could all stand outside the police station to show them we know they just talk rubbish all the time. Whatever rubbish they all come out with we’re not safe. If a building fell down and killed people but the Adver didn’t write about it, that wouldn’t mean the building hadn’t fallen down or the people hadn’t been killed.

It is not just the police who are at fault because at least the constables and sergeants do their best.

I also blame the judges who are a load of idiots.

I bet when the people who hit this couple are caught they’ll get away with a slap on the wrist, just like the rapists, drug dealers, wife batterers and paedophiles.

COLIN BAIN Kent Road Swindon