{"id":72580,"date":"2026-08-05T17:42:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T17:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/72580\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T17:42:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T17:42:43","slug":"pc-andrew-harpers-widow-says-burnham-should-be-ashamed-of-early-release-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/72580\/","title":{"rendered":"PC Andrew Harper&#8217;s widow says Burnham &#8216;should be ashamed&#8217; of early release decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"PC Andrew Harper&#039;s widow says Burnham &#039;should be ashamed&#039; of early release decision\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t5109kT5b-c\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nPC Andrew Harper&#8217;s widow says Burnham &#8216;should be ashamed&#8217; of early release decision<br \/>\n<br \/>\nPC Andrew Harper\u2019s former police force is considering joining potential legal action against the government as his widow backed a petition to block his killers being released from prison early.<\/p>\n<p>Aileen O\u2019Connor, the chair of Thames Valley Police Federation, said the decision to potentially release Jessie Cole and Albert Bowers under the government&#8217;s new early release policy would impact the morale of serving officers in the area.<\/p>\n<p>PC Harper was a Thames Valley Police officer when he was killed in August 2019 after responding to a quad bike theft in Sulhamstead, Berkshire.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Subscribe to ITV News on YouTube: http:\/\/bit.ly\/2lOHmNj<br \/>\n\u2022 Get breaking news and more stories at http:\/\/www.itv.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>Follow ITV News\u00a0on TikTok https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@itvnews?lang=en<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Instagram:\u00a0https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/itvnews\/<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Facebook:\u00a0https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/itvnews\/<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on X: https:\/\/twitter.com\/itvnews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PC Andrew Harper&#8217;s widow says Burnham &#8216;should be ashamed&#8217; of early release decision PC Andrew Harper\u2019s former police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[12],"tags":[482,50511,380,379,31,55102,247,11753,2376],"class_list":["post-72580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-itv-news","tag-crime","tag-early-release-scheme","tag-itv","tag-itv-news","tag-news","tag-pc-harper","tag-politics","tag-prisoners","tag-prisons"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/117044191404552159","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}