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PC Harper's killers to stay in jail as PM announces changes to early release scheme

Andy Burnham tells the BBC that PC Andrew Harper's killers will remain behind bars as he announced changes to the early release scheme aimed at easing prison overcrowding.

In an exclusive interview with BBC Breakfast, Burnham said anyone convicted of unlawful killing, including manslaughter, will be excluded from the scheme, which would have made two of the officer's killers eligible for early release.

Burnham conceded that of those offenders, there will be Andy Burnham has told the BBC that PC Andrew Harper's killers will remain behind bars as he announced changes to the early release scheme aimed at easing prison overcrowding.

According to Ministry of Justice data, 2,271 people are serving IPP sentences as of June. Of those, 856 have never been released because the Parole Board thought it was not safe to do so.

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