REGARDING your story "Hunt surveillance may breach human rights" (February 2), the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act protects people against unwarranted and intrusive covert surveillance.

I wonder if it has occurred to the League Against Cruel Sports that if its surveillance is unwarranted it really should not be conducting it, regardless of the technicalities of RIPA.

I also wonder if it has occurred to the MPs who have signed a recent Early Day Motion in support of the League that they should actually be defending people's rights not to have unwarranted surveillance carried out on them on behalf of the state.

The League has monitored hunts for five years now, and to date it has uncovered virtually no evidence that anyone is breaching the Hunting Act.

Giles Bradshaw South Molton