The hanging of Ruth Ellis significantly strengthened public support for the abolition of the death penalty. The 60th anniversary of her hanging is on 13 July. She is buried in an unmarked grave in Amersham, in St Mary’s church cemetery. The headstone was destroyed by her son shortly before he killed himself. I believe she deserves a headstone and hope that a campaign can be started.
Janis Ward
Uxbridge, Middlesex
• Your “The Counted” series is much welcomed (Only in America, 6 June). Please apply the same forensic analysis to what has been happening in the UK: deaths in police custody, increasing prison populations, racial bias in stops and arrests, police violence during demonstrations, and so on.
Kurt Paulus
Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire
• You tell us (Star endorsement, 6June) that JK Rowling donated to the MP Tom Watson’s campaign for the deputy leadership of the Labour party as Joanne Rowling “the same name that she used to donate £1m to Labour in 2008”. Perhaps that is because it is indeed her name.
Ann Burgess
Lincoln
• As suggested (Letters, 8 June), I have written to government ministers advocating NHS use of homoeopathy. True to the spirit of homoeopathy, it was a blank page which retained the essential properties of the effective letter I had diluted it from.
Shawn Pearson
Bristol
• “Humiliation” is clearly priced differently in Turkey (Erdogan humiliated in Turkish polls, 8 June). His party received only 41% of the vote. I haven’t noticed David Cameron looking more than 4% more humiliated…
Ted Pawley
Milton Keynes
• I love to see women in dungarees, especially butch-looking older women of any size. Lighten up, letter-writers (Letters, 4 June).
Angela Stewart-Park
London
