A shameful betrayal of victims of the Troubles | Letters

Readers respond to the government's plan to impose a statute of limitations on prosecutions for crimes committed in the Northern Ireland conflict

My sister Maxine Hambleton was murdered in the Birmingham pub bombings in 1974. The decision by Boris Johnson's government to introduce a statute of limitations on atrocities linked to the bizarrely named Troubles" (Report, 14 July) is yet another punch in the face for the victims of terrorism linked to Ireland.

Once an amnesty is granted to terrorists and murderers, we can forget about the rule of law. Our government will have replaced it with the rule of the gun and the bomb. History shows that when you allow murderous zealots the opportunity to slaughter without any repercussions, they revel in that weakness.