TONY KELLY’S comments (HAS July 6) are not only stupid but dangerous. To condone torture shows he is totally brain dead.

If you torture 50 men about the same crime they would all admit to it and fabricate a place where they had dumped a body that couldn’t be checked out, such a mine shafts. Stefan Kiszko spent years, almost the best parts of his life, doing time for something he confessed to – murdering Lesley Molseed in 1975 – just because he was locked in a cell for hours on his own.

Mr Kelly’s comments belong in the Middle Ages with the ducking stool when witches if they drowned they were innocent, if they survived they were guilty and hanged.

A McKimm, Crook