UK Officer’s Widow Wins Fight to Toughen Sentencing for Killers of Emergency Workers

UK Officer’s Widow Wins Fight to Toughen Sentencing for Killers of Emergency Workers
Lissie Harper and her husband Andrew, who was killed in the line of duty, in an undated file photo. Thames Valley Police /PA
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The widow of a British policeman who was killed after being dragged behind a getaway car has won government backing for mandatory life sentences for killers of emergency service workers.

Police Constable Andrew Harper, 28, was killed while on duty in Berkshire, England, in August 2019. His three killers, Henry Long, 19, Albert Bowers, 18, and Jessie Cole, 18, were cleared of murder but convicted of manslaughter in July 2020.