6 NOVEMBER 1959, Page 21

HYPOCRISY?

SIR,—The Rev. Austin Lee is so full of pity for homosexuals that he misses the point 'of my com- ment on the case of the Consett boy.

I was not concerned with the nature of the boy's offence, but with the shocking fact that a boy could be kept in prison for three months awaiting trial, and in consequence driven to suicide. I said it was hypocritical of us to criticise legal cruelty in the United States while we tolerated such cruelty here. A comment which I hope has the support of most people in this country, whatever their views about homosexuals may be.—Yours faithfully,

JOHN GORDON Sunday Express, Fleet Street, EC4