R W TUCKER (Oxford Mail, November 4) expresses pleasure in the death of Colonel Gaddafi and criticises the suggestion that he should have had a fair trial as being like putting Hitler on probation.
Really? If Hitler had not committed suicide he would almost certainly have been tried at Nuremberg alongside other leading Nazis.
It is hard to believe such a trial would have resulted in anything other than a death sentence, as indeed it did for many others.
It is utterly ludicrous to suggest that a fair trial would have resulted in Hitler being put on probation.
So it is with Muammar Gaddafi. He may well have deserved to die and a fair trial by his Libyan captors would have been very likely to result in a death sentence.
However, if such a sentence were to have been passed, it should have been imposed by a court of law following a proper examination of the evidence. Nothing can justify a lynching.
CHRIS ROBINS (Cllr), Foxdown Close, Kidlington
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