I FULLY agree with Alec Acomb (Criminals scoffing, The Press, April 11) that the people referred to (This jewellery is rubbish and people are being ripped off The Press, April 7) should be prosecuted.

After all, what they are alleged to have done represents a serious criminal act, and for the police to merely send them on their way, no doubt with a warning, is difficult to understand.

A successful prosecution should have been straightforward. It seems that witnesses were available to testify in court, and convictions, and subsequent sentencing, could have gone a long way to protecting innocent victims in other towns and cities.

The police may have had their reasons for acting as they did, but justice needs to be seen to be done, in this case it certainly was not.

J H Roy, Hadrian Avenue, York.