FUNNY isn't it? Less than three years ago a young woman died in a horrendous accident trying to escape the press.

At that time the nation seemed determined in its conviction that nothing like this should ever happen again. Now here we are, just 32 months later, with that same press baying for the destruction of another young royal woman because of some silly remarks she was tricked into making.

Why does your, or my, conscience think that a 'free press's public interest story' descends into little more than ritual humiliation carried out by cunning and spiteful bullies?

Richard Stansfield,

Main Street,

Bulmer,

York.

Updated: 09:49 Saturday, April 14, 2001