Killers of emergency workers 'should serve life'

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Killers of emergency workers 'should serve life'
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PC Andrew Harper's family calls for 'Andrew's Law' to increase jail terms for killers of emergency services workers

The widow of PC Andrew Harper has called for killers of emergency service workers to"spend the rest of their lives in jail".

She vowed to fight in memory of her late husband"so that anyone killing a police officer, firefighter, nurse, doctor or paramedic is jailed for life".Lissie Harper has vowed to"fight for a change in the law in memory of her late husband". He said:"Sometimes death may be caused by an act of gross carelessness, sometimes it is very close to a case of murder in its seriousness. That is so, here."Mrs Harper, who last week wrote to the prime minister to ask, has called on the"British public and politicians of all parties" to back her campaign.

"The people responsible for wreaking utter despair and grief in all of our lives will spend an inadequate amount of time behind bars," she said. "The killing of a police officer should see those responsible face the rest of their lives in prison," he said.

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