I am afraid I have little sympathy for, or patience with, Dena and Gordon Coleman, the Jewish couple who have begun legal action claiming religious discrimination by the management of their flat block in Bournemouth on the grounds that they cannot enter or leave their flat on the Sabbath because hallway lights at Embassy Court are operated by sensors that switch them on automatically. Their religion bans lights and electrical equipment being switched on during Jewish holidays (Daily Echo, June 12).
Firstly the lights concerned are not in their flat and secondly they do not switch the hallway lights on themselves – they are automatic and installed for the safety of all residents of the block.
Robert Readman, Norwich Avenue West, Bournemouth
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