Pickpockets everywhere

I fully sympathise with Gertrude Abela (Picking A Pocket Or Two, August 17) for having lost her purse to a pickpocket. Shame, shame, shame! Ms Abela seems to imply, however, that these things only happen in Malta: "Ladies beware when you are shopping...

I fully sympathise with Gertrude Abela (Picking A Pocket Or Two, August 17) for having lost her purse to a pickpocket. Shame, shame, shame!

Ms Abela seems to imply, however, that these things only happen in Malta: "Ladies beware when you are shopping anywhere in Malta and Gozo, you never know when it will happen to you." Now that is most unfair. For the record, I had my wallet stolen in Paris; my brother's was picked from his pocket in London and a close friend of mine's in Zurich.

Ladies and gentlemen, beware wherever you are, you never know when or when it will happen to you. I apologise to Ms Abela for stealing text from her letter.

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