I FIND the shooting of two female police officers Fiona Bone and Nicola Hughes absolutely appalling.

They were just doing their duty when they were shot and killed.

This outrage has prompted renewed calls for police to be armed but, in this case, it would have done no good as they were shot without warning.

I am an old-fashioned person and believe that the death penalty should be brought back or life imprisonment. And I mean life – not 20 or 30 years for this type of crime.

Mick Peacock, Coxhoe