LETTER: This country does not protect victims

What a disgrace some of today’s youths are.

Having read there have been several attacks on police, by biting kicking and spitting in the last couple of weeks, I saw a report where the police now have permission to use tasers against these people, and that’s fair enough, but what about ordinary law abiding folk like me and my wife who were also assaulted by several youths congregating on Stepping Stone Bridge, by a method even worse than the above mentioned – we were urinated on and we had threats of rape etc shouted at us (click here for full story).

I feel this country does not protect victims like us, I feel it is time laws on self protection were relaxed so we can carry protection like batons and pepper spray.

On that night, if these items were available to us I could have protected both of us.

Neil Bingham
Park Road
Spalding

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