{"id":85166,"date":"2026-08-30T18:27:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T18:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/85166\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T18:27:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T18:27:33","slug":"pc-harpers-killers-to-stay-in-jail-as-pm-announces-early-release-scheme-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/85166\/","title":{"rendered":"PC Harper&#8217;s killers to stay in jail as PM announces early release scheme changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"PC Harper&#039;s killers to stay in jail as PM announces early release scheme changes\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G77obcsgXzI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nPC Harper&#8217;s killers to stay in jail as PM announces early release scheme changes<br \/>\n<br \/>\nWhen it emerged that two of PC Andrew Harper&#8217;s killers could be freed by an expansion of the prisons early release scheme, there were passionate calls for the government to intervene. <\/p>\n<p>For weeks Andy Burnham resisted, saying prison overcrowding couldn&#8217;t be solved any other way. <\/p>\n<p>Today, he found a way. PC Harper&#8217;s family say they are grateful for the change of heart &#8211; but that campaigning for it has been traumatic.<\/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 on TikTok https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@itvnews?lang=en<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/itvnews\/<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/itvnews\/<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on X: https:\/\/twitter.com\/itvnews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PC Harper&#8217;s killers to stay in jail as PM announces early release scheme changes When it emerged that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[12],"tags":[20540,482,50511,380,17235,379,13744,264,2949,68374,19416,55102,1793,1042],"class_list":["post-85166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-itv-news","tag-andy-burnham","tag-crime","tag-early-release-scheme","tag-itv","tag-itv-evening-news","tag-itv-news","tag-itvx","tag-labour","tag-metropolitan-police","tag-overcrowding","tag-pc-andrew-harper","tag-pc-harper","tag-police","tag-prison"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/117185902320642192","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85166","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=85166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}