Backing grows for Harper’s Law

The Prison Officers’ Association is the latest organisation to back a widow’s call for a new law that would see criminals convicted of killing emergency services workers jailed for life.

Lissie Harper, the widow of Pc Andrew Harper who was killed on duty last year, has been campaigning for Harper’s Law after his killers were convicted of man slaughter but acquitted of murder. The 29- year-old met with General Secretary Steve Gill an and Andy Fiddler from Thames Valley Police Association, who said they stand “side by side”.