16 DECEMBER 1972, Page 26

Angry Brigade

From Captain Duncan Neil Dewar Sir: I mentally puked with disgust and disbelief, as no doubt did most thinking folk, on learning of the lenient sentences passed on the guilty ringleaders of the Angry Brigade.

In two world wars, thousands of young men (including brilliant students) aged between eighteen and twenty enlisted or were conscripted to fight those hell-bent on destroying our democratic way of life. The only ' reward ' a great many received was either death or disability.

Surely it is their kith and kin and their old comrades who should be the Angry Brigade of today!

Duncan Neil Dewar. 2 Fernwood Avenue, London