Offenders who kill emergency services workers to be given mandatory life sentences
The Independent says Mandatory life sentences will be introduced for offenders who cause the death of emergency services workers while committing a crime, the government has announced.
The law change is a triumph for Lissie Harper, who began campaigning after the death of her husband PC Andrew Harper in the line of duty.
Ms Harper has said the sentences given to the three teenagers responsible for her husband’s death were “despicable”.
PC Harper, 28, died after he was caught in a strap attached to the back of a car driven by the teens and dragged for a mile down a country road as they fled the scene of a quad bike theft on the night of 15 August 2019.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/andrews-law-life-sentence-murder-b1963140.html
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