Sir.-I would like to know if there is a fund set up for pensioners who have been robbed in their homes.

Quite frankly, it disgusts me and I do not feel enough is done for elderly people.

I would gladly put £200 into a fund or into victims' pockets - as £200 isn't a tremendous amount to me, but to some it's a lifetime of saving.

It seems that robbing elderly people is becoming very popular. I guess being elderly and defenceless makes them easy targets.

First-time offenders are probably put on an ASBO - these seem to be becoming very popular. Yet does anyone know what they actually do, apart from allowing the criminals to continue their normal duties?

What a society we live in today.

-Carl Connor, Hook.

Sir.-I am concerned at the light sentences many burglars are given just because they are drug users.

This is giving a clear green light to burglars to commit this crime as they are more than likely to get a very light sentence or be put on a drug rehab programme.

These district judges must never have been victims of a burglary because, if they had, I believe they would not let people get away with it so easily.

I had my house broken into in October 2003 while my husband, myself and three-year-old son were asleep upstairs. This was very traumatic.

I could not sleep, did not want to be in the house on my own and became very jumpy with noises.

The offender was given a drug rehab programme but did not turn up for appointments and offended again.

Where is the justice in this? Why should the victims suffer and the criminals get away scot free?

I was then followed on six different occasions and the same men made it obvious they were watching our house. We reported it to the police and was told to call 999 the next time we saw these men.

It took the police more than an hour to come out each time, even despite us calling 999.

I had my garden broken into two weeks later, and the police did nothing.

Please change the justice system so others do not have to suffer like we have had to.

-Name and address withheld.