Prison is a tough experience and probably all the more so when you feel that you are there for no just reason.

I am sure that pressure from the public helps a great deal and it is certainly a comfort to me to know that there are people on the outside actively helping.

I am extremely grateful to Jenny Tonge MP, Edward Davey MP, Richmond Council leader David Williams and the Reverend Martin Blakebrough, director of the Kaleidescope project, who have supported the Comet's Campaign in their official capacities.

Hopefully justice will prevail at the High Court when the appeal is heard on July 11th and this nightmare for myself, my mother, my husband and my children will come to an end.

With all good wishes.

RUTH WYNER

EH6524

HMP Highpoint

Stradishall

Newmarket

Suffolk

CB8 9YG

Editor's comment

Thank you to all our readers who have written in support of jailed charity worker Ruth Wyner following the launch of our campaign last month.

As well as helping Ruth keep her morale high, your letters are providing invaluable support to the nationwide protest to Parliament over Ruth's case.

Ruth, 50, from Barnes, a highly respected and experienced professional who ran the Wintercomfort day centre for the homeless in Cambridge, has so far spent five months of a five year sentence behind bars because a court found her and a co-worker John Brock guilty of "knowingly" allowing drugs to be dealt on the premises.

The sentence was longer than that handed out to the dealers.

Ruth is not a criminal - she has spent 20 years of her life helping others - yet she has been jailed and cruelly separated from her husband and children just for doing her job to the very best of her ability.

The Comet believes Ruth's case is a clear miscarriage of justice - and it sets a precedent which could threaten all voluntary work, leaving many volunteers fearing they could also face prosecution for helping the homeless, drug addicts, and even at youth clubs and schools.

Please keep writing to us and to your MPs and you can also register your support via our website www.thisislocallondon.co.uk. Every letter and email helps Ruth's case as she goes before the High Court on July 11 to appeal against her conviction.