I have no doubt many people who read about the outcome of the atrocious case of the young man so savagely beaten, merely for asking the two thugs to be a bit more polite, were left feeling disgusted with the derisory sentencing.

When Mr Justice Field retired a while ago, l thought hurrah; a notoriously lenient judge who constantly put the rights of perpetrators over those of the victims is now gone and maybe, just maybe, his replacement would take a less sympathetic line.

How wrong was I? It looks like we now have a similar judge who has little or no regard to the victims of these thuggish attacks.

This is not the first time either such wrongful decisions have been meted out.

I wish there was a way these judges could somehow be voted out of office, like MPs who are proven by their constituents to be not fit for purpose.

Chris Humphreys Fuller Close Swindon