Cole and Bowers were sentenced to 13 years for manslaughter in 2020. Under changes to the Sentencing Act made this year, they will become eligible for release from custody next January. Downing Street had earlier warned it would not be possible to exclude "one or two offenders" convicted of manslaughter from the early release scheme. He added: "And, in the case of the most serious offenders like those convicted of the killing of PC [Andrew] Harper, prevent their early release altogether." Speaking about Cole and Bowers, she added: "They weren't given extreme sentences and I'm only asking for them to do what they were given, I'm not asking for anything more than they were sentenced."