OBVIOUSLY, Ashya Kent’s family want what is best for their son and they are willing to go to any length – even jail – in trying to save their child’s life (Echo, Sept 2). With the horror stories you hear all too often about our health service, what parent can’t sympathise with them?

OK, maybe the Kent family haven’t followed the correct protocol – but so what, this is their child?

In other cases, parents have stood by and watched their offspring die when their religious beliefs prevented a blood transfusion, yet there was no police intervention to stop them.

I’m not surprised the police won’t apologise for their “ridiculous chase” of the Kents – they’ve done a lot of apologising lately. But I think the police should be thoroughly disgusted by their appalling heavy-handed approach.

Why did they go chasing after loving parents and not the many rapists etc they have let slip through their hands or the thousands of illegal immigrants infiltrating our country.

They should apologise unreservedly to Ashya’s parents who have now been taken away from their gravely ill child.

John Cumberland, Rushyford.