Hounded veterans

SIR – I read with disbelief that elderly veterans are being asked to give new witness statements for a fresh wave of inquests into killings during the Troubles (report, August 28). These are likely to include killings of suspected IRA terrorists that have been repeatedly investigated.

The identities of the two suspects alleged to have planted the car bomb that killed my husband, Ian Gow MP, at our home in East Sussex in July 1990 are known to the police. They have never been brought to trial.

To put soldiers who were doing their duty in very difficult conditions through the stress of further investigations, while allowing two known bombers to live without threat of arrest, seems like cloud cuckoo land. So much for British justice. Dame Jane Whiteley

Biddenden, Kent