Lissie Harper: Police officer’s widow honoured alongside well-known faces after legislation change marketing campaign

The widow of a police officer who was killed within the line of obligation has been made an MBE, after campaigning for harder legal guidelines in his reminiscence.

Lissie Harper’s husband, Andrew Harper, a Thames Valley Police officer, died after getting caught in a strap hooked up to the again of a automotive and being dragged down a winding nation street in Berkshire in 2019.

The couple had been married for simply 4 weeks.

Mrs Harper efficiently campaigned for Harper’s Law – which launched obligatory life sentences for anybody who commits the manslaughter of an emergency employee whereas they’re on obligation.

She started to push for a change within the legislation when the three youngsters discovered responsible of her husband’s manslaughter have been jailed for a complete of 42 years after they have been all acquitted of homicide.

Henry Long, 19, was sentenced to 16 years and Jessie Cole and Albert Bowers, each 18, have been handed 13 years in custody over PC Harper’s loss of life.

Mrs Harper’s MBE recognises her providers to victims of violent crime and their households.

Harper’s Law got here into impact final June and applies to police and jail officers, in addition to firefighters and paramedics.

Celebrities honoured at identical Windsor Castle occasion

Actress Vicky McClure, finest identified for enjoying Detective Inspector Kate Fleming within the BBC collection Line Of Duty, was additionally made an MBE for her providers to drama and charity on the identical Windsor Castle ceremony the place Mrs Harper was honoured.

The Bafta-winning actress, 40, has been an envoy for the Alzheimer’s Society since 2018 and has raised consciousness across the illness by way of her creation of Our Dementia Choir.

Conservative MP Michael Fabricant turned a knight after being named on former prime minister Boris Johnson’s resignation honours lists.

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Fallon Sherrock, who turned the primary lady to win a match on the PDC World Darts Championship in 2019, was additionally made an MBE.

Northern Ireland footballer Jonny Evans, former England girls’s rugby union captain Sarah Hunter, former England girls’s footballer Eni Aluko, and former boxer Johnny Nelson have been additionally awarded MBEs.