UNUSUALLY, I have something in common with bloodsports enthusiast J N Burgess (You Say, Thursday, January 18) in that I have experience of hunting.

But, unlike him, my involvement has been as an observer not a participant.

I have done exactly what the hunting fraternity is always urging its opponents to do and, over the last 15 years or so, I have observed many different hunts throughout the country.

In that time I have personally witnessed cruelty in fox-hunting and hare-coursing.

I am even more determined to campaign for an end to this barbaric so-called sport.

P HANDY,

Malvern