Madam, - "New local policing bodies should have the power to force criminals to apologise to their victims, Sinn Féin Kerry North TD Martin Ferris has said" (The Irish Times, August 3rd). I assume that that includes the killers of Garda Jerry McCabe?
May I promise my vote to any party willing to hold a referendum to upgrade the conviction of the latter to murder and their sentence to life imprisonment without remission? - Yours, etc,
EWAN DUFFY, Castletown, Celbridge, Co Kildare.