• I AGREE with all David Kaner said in his brave letter, (We have a choice how we react to people who are sleeping rough, February 14).

What annoys me about the rough sleepers problem is that they are not moved on by police (hence the permanent sleeper who blocks one of the entrances to Leicester Square tube station, next to the theatre, and others in St Martin’s Lane alongside Pret and other places).

They sleep all day and shout at each other all night. No one moves them on and, it seems, to criticise them leads one to be accused of being harsh and unsympathetic. This is especially galling when I learn they have been offered (and rejected) safe places away from the cold.

Cardboard being used for them to sleep on is left in doorways and looks unsightly. They throw unwanted donated food into the street and sit amid rubbish.

The presence of the free meals near the Zimbabwean embassy on Strand tempts rough sleepers to fill shop doorways (and to urinate in others) all day.

I wonder if this facility could be moved to the Embankment where they would be seen by fewer people. After all, now everything in the West End is entirely reliant on tourism we should present a better picture of prosperous Britain (at least until after Brexit when we might all be sleeping on the streets).

SELWYN HARDY
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