The damage left after the Halloween gathering at the former Hampstead Police Station. Photo: Jill Furmanovsky

• THE real scandal is not an illegal rave but the mindless waste of public money by the Department for Education spending £14.1million on a building and leaving it empty for eight years, (Vandals escape prosecution for lockdown rave in historic police station, May 6). How about returning it to the Met police?

PATRICK BEGLEY
Hemstal Road, NW6