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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Rob Freeman

Grooming gang members and killers including Pc Harper’s to be kept behind bars

BEST QUALITY AVAILABLE Undated family handout file photo issued by Thames Valley Police of 28-year-old PC Andrew Harper. Three teenagers who killed Pc Harper will have their sentences challenged as being “unduly lenient” at the Court of Appeal as they also mount their own appeals against their jail terms. - (PA Media)

Grooming gang perpetrators and killers including those responsible for Pc Andrew Harper’s death will be blocked from early prison release under changes announced by Andy Burnham following a backlash over the scope of the scheme.

Some offenders serving indefinite jail sentences, which were abolished in 2012, will also be freed through legislation to be brought forward by the end of this Parliament, the Prime Minister pledged.

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