Two of the men convicted after PC Andrew Harper was dragged to his death behind a getaway car in Berkshire in 2019 are to be excluded from early release under changes to sentencing rules, according to reports this week. Albert Bowers and Jessie Cole, convicted of manslaughter rather than murder and sentenced to 13 years each, would otherwise have been eligible for release after serving a third of their sentence under the 2026 Sentencing Act, which expanded early release by lowering the qualifying threshold from 40% to a third. Andy Burnham, who has already excluded rapists and child sex offenders from the scheme, is reported to be excluding those convicted of 'unlawful act' manslaughter too, though he had earlier declined to confirm the change, calling it speculation. A government spokesperson called PC Harper's death 'a horrific crime’, saying the justice secretary had been asked to find further ways to keep the most serious offenders in prison. Campaigning by PC Harper's widow, Lissie, had led to 'Harper's Law’, which now gives mandatory life sentences to those convicted of killing emergency workers while committing a crime.