Sentencing Minister Jake Richards has said it would be “wrong” to prevent the early release the killers of PC Andrew Harper. It doesn’t work retrospectively… Of course, we’ll continue to talk with the Harper family and indeed representatives from the police on an ongoing basis. A and it would be wrong to pick out individual cases within different offending cohorts. The Harper family of course are angry. More than two years into government and Labour are still criticising the Tories – while also praising legislation brought in under them.