Grooming gang members and killers including Pc Harper’s to be kept behind bars under major changes announced by Andy Burnham following a backlash over the scope of the scheme

SOME offenders including PC Andrew Harper’s killers will not be released early from jail after changes to a scheme aimed at reducing prison overcrowding, Prime Minister Andy Burnham announced today. Plans will instead focus on freeing people still serving indefinite jail sentences, abolished in 2012, and deporting foreign prisoners. Grooming gang members will not be released as part of the legislation the PM will bring forward by the end of this Parliament. About 5,000 prisoners had been due to…