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Killed a month after his wedding - why PC Andrew Harper's story touched so many
On the night of 15 August 2019, Lissie Harper got a knock at the door. She thought it was her husband Andrew coming home from work.
Instead, it was uniformed officers, there to tell her that the man she had married four weeks earlier had been killed while on police duty.
"Everything I had known in my life to be true was robbed away. Every ounce of beautiful peace, gone," Lissie later said of the moment she was told.
They had met as teenagers and were together for 13 years.
In her eulogy at his funeral, Lissie recalled how Andrew would pass her notes in class.
They were, she said, "true childhood sweethearts, loving one another more and more with each passing day".
But, on that night nearly seven years ago, everything changed.
The case has been back in the headlines because two of PC Harper's killers – Albert Bowers and Jessie Cole – will become eligible to be released early under government plans to tackle prison overcrowding.
As the disturbing details of the case are revisited, his family, fellow officers and the public are outraged once more – at what happened, and at the perpetrators' impending release.
PC Harper's death was brutal and devastating, causing shock, anger and an outpouring of grief across the country.