Judges’ ideologies

SIR – In delivering a custodial sentence to a viscount last week for sending threatening e-mails, a senior district judge stated that we are “lucky” to live in a multiracial society.

While many may or may not agree with the judge in her opinion on the social make-up of our society, it is alarming that, increasingly, judges and senior police officers are making public statements which, in tone, are highly ideological.

Surely, for the public to have confidence in our law enforcers and the procedure of the law, we need to know that the law is applied without influence of the personal political opinions of those in whom we must place our trust to act without prejudice. John Wood

Salford, Lancashire