PC Andrew Harper Autopsy Report, Funeral, Killers, Wife Pregnant

On 15 August 2019, 28-year-old English police constable Andrew Harper was killed near Sulhamstead, Berkshire, England in the line of duty.

Andrew Harper and a fellow officer were responding to a report of a burglary, after which Harper was dragged behind a car causing his death.

In July 2020, three teenage males were found guilty of manslaughter and received sentences of 16 and 13 years imprisonment. They were acquitted on the charge of murder.

Andrew Harper’s killing led to the proposal of Harper’s Law, which would introduce a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment for anyone convicted of killing emergency workers.

Andrew Harper initially joined Thames Valley Police as a special constable in 2010 at the age of 19, before joining as a regular police constable in 2011.

Andrew Harper joined Thames Valley Police’s road policing unit approximately six weeks before his death, and was based at the force’s Abingdon station.

On 18 July 2019, Andrew Harper married his partner of 13 years, Lissie (née Beckett) and they had been expecting to go on their honeymoon in mid-August.

Lissie had been married to Andrew Harper, 28, a Thames Valley police officer, for just four weeks when he was killed by a gang of three teenage thieves in August last year.