PC Andrew Harper death: Why his family wants the law to change

PC Andrew Harper married his childhood sweetheart Lissie four weeks before he was killed

PC Harper's mother, Debbie Adlam, is campaigning for Andrew's Law. Her campaign proposes that those convicted of manslaughter over the death of a blue-light worker while committing a crime should be jailed for a minimum of 20 years, with "no discount for age or early guilty plea".denied "real justice"The Harper's Law campaign, which is not seeking whole-life sentences, has yet to decide what the mandatory minimum term should be.

In the case of her son's killers, the sentencing judge Mr Justice Edis gave Long, the driver of the car, credit for his guilty plea to manslaughter. The judge also noted that the teenager would have received a longer sentence had he been older. Manslaughter is when the offender did not intend to kill but death results from an unlawful act or gross negligence. It can carry a wide range of sentences, from a life term down to a community order, again depending on the circumstances.

"My worry is that this case was unusual for a number of reasons, and unusual cases are rarely a sensible starting point for changing the law," they said. "They will feel that they might as well spin the wheel on a trial and hope for a sympathetic jury. This not only prolongs the suffering of families affected, but inevitably risks guilty defendants, who would have pleaded guilty, being acquitted."

He added: "The danger is that today's popular campaign becomes tomorrow's miscarriage and burning injustice, because of the unforeseen people getting caught in it."The Harper's Law campaign has seen widespread support among the public, with more than 725,000 people signing a petition in support of itA student who, while drunk and celebrating her exams, throws a bottle out of a window which falls five storeys into a crowd and kills an on-duty paramedic.

Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)

I actually sort if agree that if you attack are police, fire brigade, paramedics and military it should be a more punishment act as they put there lifes on the line every day for us...

Silly idea. All should be equal under the law.

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The MSM are part of the problem as long as they try to hide stuff like this.

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My greatest sympathy goes out to Pc Andrew Harper but I'm afraid these proposed law changes do not make sense. You cannot create a sentence that does not distinguish between man slaughter and murder.

The thieving little pikey scrotes should never see daylight again.

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