The widow of a police officer has called on Scotland to introduce compulsory life sentences for the killing of emergency service workers – after she changed the law in England.
Lissie Harper’s husband Andrew died in 2019 when he became tangled up in the tow rope of a getaway car containing three teenage thieves he had been trying to arrest in Sulhamstead, Berkshire.
But angry at the convictions they received, she successfully campaigned for mandatory sentences in England and Wales in what’s know as Harper’s Law.
