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PC Harper widow 'won't give up' early release fight
Lissie Harper successfully campaigned for harsher sentences for the manslaughter of emergency workers on duty
The widow of a police officer has said she hopes people will share a petition calling for his killers to be denied early release from prison, insisting she "will not give up".
PC Andrew Harper, from Wallingford, died in 2019 when he was dragged by a car as three teenagers fled the scene of a Berkshire quad bike theft.
Under updated plans to tackle prison overcrowding, two of PC Harper's killers - Jessie Cole and Albert Bowers - would be eligible for release next year.
Justice Secretary Alex Norris said the government was trying to avert "a prison capacity crisis".
Lissie Harper said: "Hopefully we can make the current government come to their senses and realise we cannot put people like this back on our streets.
"Justice should mean justice and serving the sentence given."
The petition has more than 423,800 signatures and was started by Aileen O'Connor, chair of Thames Valley Police Federation.
Police officer Andrew Harper suffered fatal injuries while on duty in 2019
Cole and Bowers were each sentenced to 13 years for manslaughter in 2020, and will become eligible for release after serving half of their sentences.