{"id":92792,"date":"2026-08-11T07:50:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T07:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=92792"},"modified":"2026-08-11T07:50:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T07:50:35","slug":"pm-asks-justice-secretary-to-find-way-to-keep-pc-harpers-killers-in-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/08\/11\/pm-asks-justice-secretary-to-find-way-to-keep-pc-harpers-killers-in-jail\/","title":{"rendered":"PM asks justice secretary to find way to keep PC Harper&#8217;s killers in jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/1920\/cpsprodpb\/70de\/live\/acb174c0-923c-11f1-af4d-5164294a85c7.jpg\" alt=\"Albert Bowers (left) and Jessie Cole (centre), smiling, appearing to laugh or mock the assembled media, as they leave Reading Magistrates Court following an appearance in relation to the death of PC Andrew Harper. \" width=\"653\" height=\"368\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Prime Minister Andy Burnham has told his justice secretary to find a way to exclude PC Andrew Harper\u2019s killers from an early release scheme designed to ease prison overcrowding. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/crrv1zlgd9ko\">Read More<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Prime Minister Andy Burnham has told his justice secretary to find a way to exclude PC Andrew Harper\u2019s killers from an early&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Bowers-and-cole.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92794,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92792\/revisions\/92794"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}