Nearly two years after the brutal killing of her police officer husband Andrew, Lissie Harper is still blindsided by grief – and unrelenting anger about the lenient sentences given to the men who took his life. Now it’s fuelling her determination to seek justice Evening time is when Lissie Harper misses her husband Andrew most. … Read more
The twinkly Christmas lights, which bedecked the outside of Lissie Harper’s family home ever since she was a girl, are missing this year. It was the job of her husband, PC Andrew Harper, a ‘gentle giant’ standing 6ft 5in tall, to put them up. Since he was killed while on duty, no-one else in the … Read more
Lissie Harper, 29, was married to PC Harper for just four weeks when he died and revealed she keeps his ashes in a box in her bedroom PC Andrew Harper’s grieving widow Lissie Harper has revealed she still sleeps with his ashes in a wooden box in her bedroom and doesn’t know if she will ever … Read more
The killers of hero policeman Andrew Harper have received £465,000 in legal aid, the Mail can reveal. The astonishing sum was paid to solicitors and barristers defending the three teenagers who dragged the constable to his death behind a car for more than a mile. Last night PC Harper’s widow Lissie said she was ‘horrified’ by … Read more
The widow of hero PC Andrew Harper says she ‘won’t fade away quietly into the background’ as she fights for tougher sentences for 999 killers under ‘Andrew’s Law’. Lissie Harper, 29, had been married to Andrew, 28, for four weeks before he was killed on duty by thieves. She said that on the day her … Read more
A police officer at your door at 3am is rarely good news. When your husband is a policeman himself, and you have signed up to a life of kissing him goodbye each day, quelling the anxious voice in your head as you dash off a late-night ‘Love you’ text, or a sleepy, dawn ‘See you … Read more
A police officer at your door at 3am is rarely good news. When your husband is a policeman himself, and you have signed up to a life of kissing him goodbye each day, quelling the anxious voice in your head as you dash off a late-night ‘Love you’ text, or a sleepy, dawn ‘See you … Read more
PC Harper’s widow calls for full life jail terms for killers who claim lives of 999 heroes – after traveller trio dragged her husband to death in line of duty Lissie Harper said she would to ‘never stop’ in pursuit of justice for her husband She wants killers of emergency workers to be given full-life sentences … Read more
‘I’m in endless, sprawling dark’: PC Harper’s widow Lissie, 29, tells of her anguish in heartbreaking letter on what would have been their first wedding anniversary after killers were convicted of manslaughter Lissie Harper told of her anguish in a heartbreaking letter to PC Andrew Harper The widow wrote the letter on what would have … Read more