PAUL Hepworth's letter regarding the headline "Call this justice?" about his professional colleague and recently convicted sex offender Charles Holdaway was utter nonsense (November 18).

Any normal human being finds any form of paedophile activity abhorrent - whether they be grooming youngsters for sex or gazing at pictures of children on a computer screen.

From the comments made by Mr Hepworth regarding the nature of Mr Holdaway's offences we are obviously supposed to feel sympathy for Mr Holdaway because he only looked at pictures and didn't actually send them anywhere or act out his sick, perverted fantasies.

We didn't realise that there were two types of paedophile. So if you are not an aggressive paedophile you must be a part-time one then are you?

Or just a little bit of a paedophile - those who just have sick little pictures on their computer screen.

What needs to be remembered in any of these instances is that the sick little pictures on the computer screen are of someone's child.

Mr Hepworth, we wonder how you would have felt if your professional colleague were looking at pictures of your son or daughter?

And finally, as far as quoting the bible at the end of the letter about those without sin - well we don't sit and spend our lives looking at nasty pictures on my computer screen so I feel quite entitled to cast the first stone.

Jenny and Alan Cammidge,

Ouseburn Avenue,

York.

Updated: 12:04 Monday, November 22, 2004