DO my eyes deceive me or did I really read that £4-5 million pounds was earmarked for the now cancelled custody suite?

This would explain the demise of the financial situation all over this country, if these sums of money are blithely budgeted.

I could build a five-star hotel for that. The rooms discussed already exist at Salisbury’s police station and there is no need to rip them out at vast cost while it is needlessly converted at huge cost to a college.

How people waste such epic amounts of our taxes while pursuing self-aggrandising projects such as these defies belief. Any lockable rooms could be used.

Are we going to be showing American tourists these suites? Are they going to be trend-setting icons of the latest in criminal detention? This is just another example of a simple requirement being blown up out of all proportion, over-engineered and over-budgeted to the point of self destruction.

The people masterminding these nonsenses need to come back to earth.

Patrick Geenty should resign if only to maintain his integrity. But the real culprits need to be locked up.

Colin Grant

Salisbury

SO the city is deprived of its custody unit.

A valuable dementia ward will probably suffer the same fate.

What else? Reduce the hospital to a walk-in-clinic and move it to a site ‘somewhere else in the county’? Transfer Magna Carta to a shelf in Melksham library for general borrowing? Might as well, given the lack of justice in this city.

Veronica Burton

Salisbury