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Justice minister defends early release of PC Andrew Harper’s killers amid possible legal challenge – UK politics live
Jake Richards acknowledges ‘unimaginable pain’ of Harper’s family but says government faces an ‘unenviable position’ Continuing his media round on the airwaves this morning, justice minister Jake Richards said he understood the “strength of feeling” among police about PC Andrew Harper’s death but that without prison places officers would not be able to do their jobs. Richards said that Harper’s Law strengthens the sentence for perpetrators who commit such offences but that “it doesn’t work retr…
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