‘The results from this trial I had hoped would bring justice but in reality make no difference to the heart-wrenching pain I will continue to feel for the rest of my life.’
The widow of a police officer who was dragged to his death on the back of a car said she is ‘immensely disappointed’ that his three killers were cleared of murder.
on Friday. The trial heard how the teenagers were determined to escape from police officers ‘at all costs’ after attempting to steal a £10,000 quad bike from a house in Stanford Dingley, Berkshire.Pc Harper got out of his patrol car to chase after a suspect but his ankles became entangled in a crane strap attached to the boot of Long’s Seat Toledo.
‘This crime, whatever the outcome deliberated over in court, was brutal and senseless,’ she said. ‘The way in which Andrew was robbed of his life we all know to be barbaric and inexplicable.Mrs Harper said her husband served his force ‘with honour’ and that he ‘went out night after night risking his life for the safety and the wellbeing of the innocent’.
But the prosecution said ‘without a shadow of a doubt’ the defendants were aware that Pc Harper, who was more than 6ft tall and weighed 14 stone, was being dragged to his death
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