Sir.-I am so insensed after reading the letter in last Friday's Gazette about the driver who ran over a cat.

This cruel act surely is a case for prosecution and if there is any chance that the car details could be recalled and passed on to the relevant authorities, then I feel everything possible should be done.

I, for one, refuse to believe that the driver was not aware of what others were desperately trying to do to save this poor cat.

Although the law does not state you have to report a road traffic accident involving a cat, what this person did surely is criminal.

May this person have this on his conscience all his life.

Did he not think that the cat more than likely lives with a family who now have had their hearts broken?

Just imagine if they read last week's paper and found out what really happened to it.

I am sorry, too, for the lady who desperately tried to save this cat and had to witness this "crime".

-Sheila Russell-Brown, Basingstoke.