I AM an 88-year-old greatgrandmother and I am consumed with anger at the arrests of MP Damian Green and civil servant Christopher Galley, and Milton Keynes reporter Sally Murrer.

All of them were arrested, it seems, for telling the truth in print.

I have long suspected that this Government is turning Britain into a police state and will stop at nothing. Now I have been proved right.

When any government resorts to using Stalin and Hitler-type police methods to control the populace, then they have reached the pits. Forget free speech, forget democracy, it is about revenge and power. It is a sinister, frightening turn of events. I have never seen anything like it in all my 88 years. It’s dirty.

Anne Jeffcutt, Darlington.

THE furore over the arrest of Damian Green should not be read in isolation.

Not long ago Boris Johnson assumed the chair of the London Police Authority. The first thing he did was to force out Sir Ian Blair, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner.

Now we have the apprehension of Mr Green for leaking Home Office documents to the media.

Is one event the result of the other?

Hugh Pender, Darlington.

WHATEVER motives the police had for arresting Damian Green and impounding his Parliamentary correspondence, the action itself was utterly unconstitutional, and a major outrage.

You do not, in a democracy, whoever you may be, carry out a raid on the seat of government and, without adequate reason, take into custody one of our elected representatives.

There now needs to be a highprofile public inquiry into what happened and why the Speaker and his deputies let it happen.

Many of us have been concerned for some time that much police activity can no longer be said to serve the public interest; that the priorities of the police and those of ordinary, decent people are no longer the same.

Just possibly something might now be done about it.

Tony Kelly, Crook.

WHY was Damian Green arrested for something which is normal practice in government circles: leaking information?

How anyone in this Labour Government dare make allegations about leaks is beyond belief after the number of secret documents and laptop computers which have been lost.

Perhaps it’s time for Commons leader Harriet Harman to step down along with some of her other misguided colleagues.

JM Gowland, Heighington.

THE Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, appears to be of the opinion that there should be no interference by politicians with the police inquiry into Damian Green. Is she sure she belongs to the same party that complained of 6am arrests in the Blair cash for honours inquiry?

Barry Wood, Edmondsley, Co Durham