Time to show compassion, not destroy boy’s hopes

JUST how Home Office minister Nick Hurd sleeps soundly at night is way beyond my comprehension (“You’ve signed my boy’s death warrant, says cannabis row mother”, June 12).

To confiscate this youngster’s six-month supply of cannabis oil, brought from Canada by his mother, makes me sick to my stomach. I suggest Mr Hurd spends time with the Caldwell family so that he can see, first hand, just what a strain it is on Billy and his parents’ lives to experience seizure after seizure on a daily basis.

It is time to show compassion here, Mr Hurd, not to destroy Billy Caldwell’s chance of a better quality of life by denying this treatment. Ruth Peberdy, Bridgwater, Somerset