ISN'T it strange how a sudden change from our hum-drum lives catapults certain people into becoming superheroes – and vice-versa.

The stories in last Friday’s Oxford Mail were a classic example.

I had just settled down with a nice cup of tea after work to read the local events of the day, only to become totally depressed and confused at the report of the grandmother who was sexually assaulted while shopping in the Tesco supermarket in Cowley.

The depression was brought on by the fact that the incident had happened at all.

The confusion was caused by the action of the police who were brought in to investigate, in that they traced and arrested the alleged perpetrator of the crime, then let him off with a caution, and refused to say why.

I always thought that the police were funded by the public to protect the public, and be answerable to the public.

So how could they take a decision not to charge this individual without offering an explanation?

If there were valid grounds to take this action, surely we, as their taxpaying funders, should be told what they were.

Going back to my comment about superheroes, the cup of tea that I was enjoying at the time contained milk which, along with other bottles, had been delivered to my doorstep without fail, throughout the horrendous weather which prevented me from getting my car within half-a-mile of my house for eight days.

For the privilege of regularly battling through the snow and ice to make sure my morning corn-flakes were tasty, I will get an invoice for the month of January for about £10.

My conclusion is that if I were asked to choose between the chief of the multi-million pound-funded Thames Valley Police or my milkman as our country’s future Prime Minister, Tom Sammons from the Country Dairy at Ascott would get my vote without a second’s hesitation.

CLIVE HARRISON, Quarhill Close, Over Norton,Chipping Norton