Gerald Samson asks (Oxford Mail, May 5): "Would it have made any difference if she had been white?", referring to Angela Dublin and the parents' anger at her two-year sentence for causing death by dangerous driving in the Oxford Eastern Bypass crash.

How insensitive and written in the month of the first anniversary. I just cannot believe what I read that the parents would be looking to be "awarded their pound of flesh".

I am sure no money could replace those dead children and the parents would surely pay any sum of money to have their children back.

Of course, they are cross and angry they have every right to be. They lost a son, their future what parent expects their child to die before them? From that son, they probably expected grandchildren, and happy memories to look back on when they got old.

Now all they can look back on is sadness at the years they nursed those boys during teething, measles, all those childhood ailments, taking his first steps and saying his first words, growing up to be a teenager, then it stops, all due to a stupid mistake of cramming a car full of young vigorous boys (not forgetting the poor man in the other car who was an innocent victim). Ms Dublin did not set out to kill those boys, but I should have liked to have seen her banned from driving for life.

It won't be so bad as the life sentence those poor parents are facing without their sons.

I lost my own 15-year-old son in an accident 16 years ago and I am still serving my life sentence.

Mr Samson writes with no feelings for these parents and what they have gone through.

BERNADETTE DOWNES Temple Road, Cowley, Oxford