Letter: Wrong rights

I WONDER if any of your other readers share the sense of irony implicit in your report (11 February) regarding the Westminster Parliament's rejection of the decison of the European Court of Human Rights anent prisoners' rights and by implication the convention.

As I understand it, the European Convention on Human Rights was devised by a team of British lawyers in the immediate post-war years to keep the uncivilised denizens of the Balkans such as me and other Central European bandits on the straight and narrow path after the excesses of the Second World War.

However, it seems that when measures are taken to apply these rules to the country of its authors there is uproar.

Clearly, what is sauce for the goose is not sauce for the gander in Westminster.

BRANISLAV SUDJIC

Hunter Street

Kirkcaldy