Sir - Steve Earle's story about burying Jonathan Nobles' ashes in Oxfordshire (Report, June 13) is absolutely true, but his version is not quite accurate.

I too was a friend of Jonathan's for a great many years while he was on Death Row in Texas. He was so enchanted by the idea of the bluebell wood I'd described to him in a letter many years before his death that he asked me if I could arrange for his ashes to be buried there. He did indeed want to end up in a country where there was no capital punishment. Steve and I were both witnesses at his 'state-sanctioned murder' in Texas ten years ago this October, and a year later Steve brought his ashes to England so that we could fulfil Jonathan's final wish.

They were duly interred in the bluebell wood (with the owner's permission).

There were several mourners present, all of whom had known and loved Jonathan, and the ceremony was conducted by a Dominican priest. The place is, and will remain, a secret.

Pam Thomas, Old Marston