There is not a day goes by that there isn't a sad story on the news about someone being stabbed in Britain. A young coloured boy was stabbed to death a few days ago outside a school.

What started this ? If you are caught carrying a gun you will receive five years in jail. If you are caught carrying a knife you receive a warning. How do the differ ?

A lady in our village had a knife put to her throat last February coming out of a post office and told to hand over the pension she just collected.

The youth who did it was caught on camera. It came out in court he had threatened an OAP, which I am by the way, with a knife a year earlier.

He was sent to a centre for six months. Taught how to ski, canoe and feed farm animals. He was released after 14 weeks. Surely this isn't punishment.

How can we get the judges to protect us and give these people longer sentences ?