6 MAY 2006, Page 17

Still alive

From Timothy Williams

Sir: Frederic Raphael writes: ‘Papon was tried and condemned for war crimes only as an old man, in the late 1990s, and died in prison’ (Books, 29 April).

Maurice Papon is still alive; he was released from jail on 18 September 2002, after serving less than three years of his ten-year sentence.

Timothy Williams Guadeloupe