Why is it that, when attending peaceful demonstrations at Oxford University against the building of a new animal housing establishment to further Oxford's barbaric use of animals in experiments, demonstrators are classed as "terrorists" and can be arrested under the new Serious Organised Crime and Police Bill, for just giving out leaflets?

Yet a vicious attack by four people on a young woman and her friend in a cul-de-sac in south Abingdon, leaving them both with serious head injuries and the woman with broken ribs, has been brushed off as a public order offence?

Why is it that the Thames Valley Police and Abingdon's community safety team choose to ignore serious neighbourhood disputes that have led to my three-year-old daughter being targeted?

So much for reducing crime, disorder and fear.

Laura Brett

Saxton Road

Abingdon