Caging the truth?

Laura Harding’s 11 July article author said JK Rowling repeated an old and discredited story about ‘’a child in Czech Republic, kept in a caged cot’’.

The story, based on a ‘’report’’ by an ‘’undercover’’ volunteer carer in a Czech hospital, originated from an ambitious Westminster baroness in dire need of another cause who, looking for a famous name as a support, recruited Ms Rowling. Yes, cots with side netting which can be pulled up or down are standard house items over there: I used to sleep in one for my safety as a child, to no apparent harm, so did my wife, so did our daughter, so did thousands of other infants. Side netting does, actually, provide for a safe