{"id":367083,"date":"2026-08-04T10:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T09:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/pc-harpers-mother-devastated-his-killers-set-for-early-release-despite-revised-plans-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T10:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T09:00:13","slug":"pc-harpers-mother-devastated-his-killers-set-for-early-release-despite-revised-plans-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/pc-harpers-mother-devastated-his-killers-set-for-early-release-despite-revised-plans-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"PC Harper&#8217;s mother &#8216;devastated&#8217; his killers set for early release despite revised plans | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i4.ytimg.com\/vi\/_a9Vvw1DdTQ\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"PC Harper's mother 'devastated' his killers set for early release despite revised plans | BBC News\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_a9Vvw1DdTQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>The mother of PC Andrew Harper has told the BBC she is &quot;devastated&quot; two of his killers remain eligible for early release after the UK government revised plans to tackle overcrowding.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nPrisoners who committed rape, grooming, and serious child sex offences will be excluded from the scheme for England and Wales, the government announced on Monday.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nUK Prime Minister Andy Burnham said he &quot;wanted to go even further&quot;, but that would not be possible without the prison system collapsing and putting the public &quot;at much greater risk&quot;.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nPC Harper, 28, was killed in 2019 when he was dragged by a car down a country road as three teenagers fled the scene of a quad bike theft in Berkshire.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nSubscribe to our channel here: https:\/\/bbc.in\/bbcnews\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFor the latest news download the BBC News app or visit BBC.com\/news\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n#BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mother of PC Andrew Harper has told the BBC she is &quot;devastated&quot; two of his killers remain eligible for early release after the UK government revised plans to tackle overcrowding. \u00a0 Prisoners who committed rape, grooming, and serious child sex offences will be excluded from the scheme for England and Wales, the government announced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":367084,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128810],"tags":[],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-367083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bbc-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>PC Harper&#039;s mother &#039;devastated&#039; his killers set for early release despite revised plans | BBC News | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch PC Harper&#039;s mother &#039;devastated&#039; his killers set for early release despite revised plans | BBC News for free, here on News ISC. 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