Manslaughter Sentences for Pc Andrew Harper’s killers Remain Unchanged After Appeal

Pc Harper, 28, was caught in a strap attached to the back of a car driven by Long and dragged to his death down a winding country road as the trio fled the scene of a quad bike theft in Berkshire on the night of August 15 2019. All three were cleared of murder by the jury, which deliberated for more than 12 hours and attracted a lot of public anger and outrage.

At a hearing in November, Attorney General Suella Braverman said the youths’ sentences should be increased, for an offence that was “as serious a case of manslaughter as it is possible to envisage”. However, lawyers representing Long, Cole and Bowers, who appeared by video-link from HMP Belmarsh, argued that their sentences were too long, even suggesting they be reduced.

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