By Andy Hughes, LBC Crime Correspondent

They dragged a police officer to his death.

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As PC Andrew Harper clung to a tow strap attached to their getaway vehicle, the three young men in a car accelerated. They drove on, despite having every opportunity to stop. Instead, they sped through narrow country lanes, around bends and over rough ground, dragging the 28-year-old officer for more than a mile. By the time the vehicle finally came to a halt, Harper had suffered catastrophic injuries. He died before he could be saved.

Now we find out that two of his killers could soon be back on our streets under the government’s early prison release scheme.

These are the same two killers who grinned and smirked at press cameras as they were being led into a prison van. The same two killers who laughed and joked their way through........

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