YOUR correspondent who coyly signs him/herself 'Name and Address Supplied' (South China Morning Post, December 8), is wrong when he says that former police Chief Superintendent Peter Godber was charged under Section 10a of the Prevention of Bribery Ordinance. The Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) did try this at first in its first attempt to have Godber extradited from the UK - it failed because such an ordinance does not exist in the UK and a parallel law is condition of extradition. Godber was eventually brought back in chains when it was found at Bow Street Magistrates Court in London, that he had a case to answer on charges of conspiracy - a felony that is punishable in English law as well as in Hong Kong. I'm not sure about Warwick Reid, but as I read it in the newspaper, he was returned to Hong Kong by Filipino immigration authorities for having entered the Philippines illegally. There are those who believe Godber was framed - I'm one of them. Nobody doubts that Godber was corrupt, but there is anecdotal evidence to suggest that he did not commit the crimes for which he was sentenced. Any way to skin a cat I suppose. Nobody doubts the good and valuable work that has been done and is being done by the ICAC, but it simply is not a good example to say that the end justifies the means. Isn't that what Adolf Hitler said? TED THOMAS Causeway Bay
