One million sign petition to block Pc Harper’s killers from early release

More than one million people have signed a petition set up to stop Pc Andrew Harper’s killers from being released early from prison.Pc Harper was fatally injured in the line of duty when he got caught in a strap attached to the back of a car and was dragged down a country road as the killers fled the scene of a quad bike theft in Sulhamstead, Berkshire, in 2019.Two out of three of Pc Harper’s killers, Albert Bowers and Jessie Cole, are set to be released next year halfway through their 13-year sentences under Government plans for early releases designed to tackle overcrowding in jails.The prosect of their release has prompted widespread condemnation of the scheme in which some 5,000 people are expected to be released early under sentencing changes, down from 6,000 after ministers exempted