I AM indebted to Jennifer Carter (Oxford Mail ViewPoints, October 13) calling time on the attempt of X Factor hopeful Gamu Nhengu to prevent her deportation from this country back to Zimbabwe.

This was on the basis that she would face a firing squad if she returned to Zimbabwe as a result of her mother Nokuthula Ngazana’s visa expiring in August.

As a lifelong music-lover, having once watched a short excerpt of X Factor while visiting a distant relative, I had automatically assumed Miss Nhengu would be facing a firing squad, because of the inadequacies of her singing.

It is an entirely natural assumption to make under the circumstances.

For some considerable time now, there have been complaints about the state of the music industry, with drastically falling CD sales, and the negative effect of Internet piracy.

However, I have long been, firmly of the profound conviction, that the biggest problems that the industry faces happen to be standing directly in front of the microphone.

PETER POYSER, Oxford