Neither were found to have a mobile phone on them or in the caravan. Henry Long, 18, of Mortimer, Reading, and two 17-year-old boys deny murder. "It was a senseless killing of a young police officer in the line of duty, a young man who was doing no more than his job.". PC Andrew Harper suffered 'catastrophic injuries' after being dragged behind a car along a country road, jurors were told. One tribute, accompanied by an image of PC Harper smiling with a friend, said: "Harps, I am truly gutted. 'We suggest that leads to the irresistible conclusion that he intended to kill PC Harper or to do him really serious bodily injury. PC Harper, known as "Harps" to his colleagues, was part of Thames Valley's Roads Policing Unit, and had been due to work a 10am to 7pm shift that day. Jonathan Laidlaw QC, prosecuting, described how PC Harper was "lassoed around his ankles" and dragged at an average of more than 42mph for just over a mile. He was responding to the reported theft of a quad bike from a home near the village of Sulhamstead in Berkshire. "The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited. PC Andrew Harper, 28, was responding to a burglary report on Thursday in Sulhamstead, Berkshire, when he was dragged along the road by a vehicle. 2023 BBC. 'He realised what he had seen was PC Harper's body. PC Harper ran behind to intercept him, Mr Altman said: "Illuminated by the rear lights of the police car, as well as by the pulsating blue and white emergency lights, [the youth] could not failed to have seen Pc Harper, who was within feet of him and to have realised he was a police officer in full uniform.". Long, of Mortimer, Reading, admits manslaughter and conspiracy to steal but denies murder. 11.31pm: PC Shaw reaches the A4 and Ufton Lane where he finds his colleague having followed a trail of road marks, blood and body matter. Get email updates with the day's biggest stories. Bowers and Cole were instead convicted of the lesser charge of manslaughter - which Long had previously admitted. It was a senseless killing of a young police officer in the line of duty; a young man who was doing no more than his job.". At the time of the charges Long said: "I don't give a f*** about any of this.". Asia Pacific; EMEA; Latin America; UK Solicitors; UK Bar; United States 'The prosecution suggest that not only did he know he was dragging a policeman, but also he intended by his actions to dislodge him from the strap to make good what had been the plan all along: to make good their escape from their criminal enterprise the conspiracy to steal to which all the defendants have since pleaded guilty. He attended a suspected burglary with a colleague at 11.30pm on Thursday, August 15, 2019. Long drove off with one of the 17-year-olds in the front seat of his Seat car and the other riding the quad bike behind, the court heard. "We are shocked and saddened by the death of our colleague". Man attempts to get into car A tragic series of events that led to the "gruesome discovery" of Pc Andrew Harper lying catastrophically injured in a country lane has been played out in court.. Cole is on foot behind the Seat. He was dragged along the stretch of road at up to 60mph by the SEAT in horrendous circumstances. Prosecutor Brian Altman QC told the court: 'In his opinion, PC Harper's lower legs became entangled in a rope attached to the Seat car causing him to fall violently to the ground in an unprotected manner, sustaining a head injury which would likely have resulted in deep unconsciousness.'. PC Harper's alleged killers drove straight at a police car in their bid 'not to get caught at all costs', jurors heard. Pc Andrew Harper, 26, was killed on the A4 Bath Road between Reading and Newbury last night. 'It was because the 17-year-old had unhitched the quad bike and had no time to place the crane strap into the boot that its large loop was left trailing on the road surface. Pc Harper and his crew mate PC Andrew Shaw are on the M4 in a BMW car. This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. Pc Harper, 28, died from his injuries when he was caught in a strap attached to the back of a car and dragged down a winding country road as the trio fled the scene of a quad bike theft in Sulhamstead, Berkshire, on the night of August 15 2019. He said: 'I don't give a f*ck about any of this. The Thames Valley Police officer was dragged along the road for more than a mile, Sign up to our newsletter for daily updates and breaking news delivered direct to your inbox. "The car left it late to brake at the junction and then pulled out in front of him, causing him to slam on his brakes," Mr Altman explained. An officer is heard to say 'these people have already injured one of our officers' as he suggested they get there as quickly as possible. Dr. Andrew Cronyn Pediatrics Physician NPI Number: 1811971310 Address: 10 MAIN ST Florence, MA 01062 , Phone: 4133419400 Dr. Benjamin Harper Falk Dentist NPI Number: 1750365649 Address: 41 MAIN ST Florence, MA 01062 , Phone: 4135860320 Dr. David R Kalman Gastroenterology Physician NPI Number: 1497730675 Andy Efkowitz 33. 10 boys . Mr Altman told the jury: 'It was his opinion that anyone driving the Seat could not fail to be aware that something of significant weight was being dragged behind the vehicle. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. ", Another colleague, PC Katherine Darling, who had responded to a radio call for assistance, described seeing blood which was "bright red and running all the way down the centre of the road on tarmac.". He was declared dead by paramedics at the scene. The court heard he would have been rendered unconscious almost immediately and was unable to free himself. 11.45pm: PC Harper is pronounced dead in the road where he was found. An eyewitness initially thought the Seat was towing "the carcass of a bloodied deer", but quickly he realised it was a person trapped by both ankles being dragged around the road and striking the kerb, Mr Laidlaw said. The number plates were taped over during the first sortie to avoid identification of the car and ultimately them. They avoided murder charges and were instead convicted on manslaughter, pushing widow Lissie Harper to fight for Harper's Law. "Tragically, at that very moment and still in the act of chasing Jessie Cole down, PC Harper must have quite unwittingly stepped, with both feet, into the loop made of the strapping trailed behind the Seat. Mr Long, the car's driver, and two 17-year-olds deny murder. The Old Bailey trial heard Henry Long, 19, drove at an average speed of 42.5mph along the Admoor Lane in Berkshire, near Reading, on the evening of August 15 last year, in such a fashion that the stricken officer was "swung side-to-side like a pendulum in an effort to dislodge him". Police investigating the murder of Pc Andrew Harper, 28, say he died of multiple of injuries. Mr Campbell said Pc Harper joined the force as a special constable in 2010 before becoming a police officer a year later, serving in the Roads Policing Proactive Unit based at Abingdon Police Station. This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. Sign up for exclusive newsletters, comment on stories, enter competitions and attend events. "He was clearly a man who, in his short time, touched many lives," Mr Barber added. A man charged with the murder of PC Andrew Harper told police he wasn't there because he was watching Fast and Furious, a court has heard. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Mr Laidlaw told jurors that Long was driving the SEAT being used to tow the stolen quad bike, Bower was in the passenger seat and Cole was on the quad bike steering it as it free-wheeled behind. Long, of Mortimer, Reading, also admits manslaughter. Long has admitted the manslaughter of the Thames Valley Police officer, but has denied intending to kill him. 11.17pm: Mr Wallis makes a 999 call to report a theft in progress. 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PC Andrew Harper was responding to a reported theft four hours past the end of his shift when his ankles got caught in a tow rope attached to the suspects' getaway car. He said: 'In his view, the driver had deliberately chosen to drive straight at him. PC Harper, 28, was then dragged along the road for more than a mile before being found by a colleague with "utterly catastrophic" injuries. One was goonies, fast and furious. An examination of the officer's Mitsubishi Outlander later showed no evidence it had made any contact to PC Harper's body. Ten males aged between 13 and 30 have been arrested on suspicion of murder. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. You can get the latest news for Berkshire straight to your mobile or tablet when you download the free BerkshireLive app. A great cop, a great man, a great friend. He remembered saying the word "body" out loud but did not know whether this was transmitted.". PC Harper died from multiple injuries after he responded to reports of a vehicle being stolen and ended up caught in a strap behind the vehicle near Sulhamstead, Berkshire on August 15 last year. Long, 19, and Cole and Bowers, both aged 18, go on trial at the Old Bailey for murder. 'Whether you accept that proposition will be a matter for you to decide on the totality of the evidence.'. The bike had been wheeled away and fixed to the car boot with a crane strap which was wound around the handlebars. "Henry Long sped off, PC Harper was lassoed around his ankles by the loop of the strap. Police are currently focusing their inquiries on one vehicle, understood to be a Seat. 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Who was Ukrainian minister Denys Monastyrsky? PC Andrew Harper was newly married when he died, PC Andrew Harper with his father-in-law Simon. PC Andrew Harper murder trial jurors are taken to place where he died to see reconstruction of how 'he was dragged to his death snared in tow rope behind battered Seat Toledo' Pc Harper. Cole runs past the police car, pursued by PC Harper, and dives through the Seat passenger window, the Old Bailey is told. Pc Andrew Harper was responding to a reported burglary in Sulhamstead, west Berkshire, on Thursday when he was caught between a vehicle and the road and then dragged for a distance.. He had just left his vehicle when he was struck by a car at a country crossroads, close to Sulhamstead and the A4 Bath Road between Reading and Newbury. "At the same time, he heard on the radio a message from his colleague PC Christopher Bushnell, the other dog unit, who had driven ahead of him, that there was a "body from the car" or "thrown from the car.". The officer who was with him, PC Andrew Shaw, likened the moment he was dragged away to when a water-skier loses his footing and is whipped forward before he lands on his back. They allegedly dumped the 10,000 bike but pulled PC Harper, who had become trapped around the ankles, for over a mile after roaring down Lambdens Hill, a country lane in Bradfield Southend, Bekshire. "Almost naked by this point, PC Harper was left as you can imagine with the most appalling of injuries, from which he died there on the road. 11.29pm: Over a minute after PC Harper's disappearance, PC Shaw - looking for his colleague - stops to recover PC Harper's stab vest, which is in two parts in the road. PC Andrew Harper, 28, was responding to a burglary report on Thursday in Sulhamstead, Berkshire, when he was dragged along the road by a vehicle. Read our, {{#verifyErrors}} {{message}} {{/verifyErrors}} {{^verifyErrors}} {{message}} {{/verifyErrors}}. 'The fact that neither Long nor the other two defendants had planned for or even wanted PC Harper to become caught in the strap is neither here nor there. The three defendants were later arrested at a traveller caravan site before a police investigation concluded that it was the three defendants involved in the theft and subsequent death of PC Harper that night. Proceedings will resume on Wednesday (June 23). 'To his right he saw out of the corner of his eye something moving and tumbling in the road. Long has admitted manslaughter, which the younger boys also deny. Pc Harper, 28, eventually became disentangled but died from his injuries in the road. Jurors were shown video from a police helicopter above a travellers' camp site where the suspects' Seat was located. Thames Valley Police said on Saturday it had been granted an extra 36 hours to question the suspects. PC Harper died at the scene a short time later. Mr Altman said: 'He noted a lack of reaction when Long and one other were told a police officer had died and that they were being arrested on suspicion of murder. It was then that he recognised that figure to be his colleague PC Harper. 'This evidence further demonstrates the defendants' determination to escape and not get caught at all costs.'. Newlywed Pc Harper was responding to reports of a burglary last Thursday night when he was hit and dragged under vehicle in Sulhamstead, West Berkshire. The officer was "barely alive" but died at the scene a short time later. Mr Altman said the three teenagers knew they had been stopped by the police. They disabled their SEAT Toledos rear lights and taped over the number plate but were seen by Mr Wallis taking the Honda TRX500 quad bike and roping its handlebars to the back of the car. PC Harper, 28, was then dragged along the road for more than a mile before being found by a colleague with "utterly catastrophic" injuries. You can sign up to receive push notifications, which means you'll always be the first to know what's happening in the area. A police officer died in 'truly shocking circumstances' after being dragged behind a car by his ankles for more than a mile, the Old Bailey heard. PC Harper attended a suspected burglary with a colleague in a marked car at 11.30pm on Thursday, August 15, 2019. PC Bushnell had directed the helicopter to the travellers' site after losing sight of the Seat about three-quarters of a mile away. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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Earlier, PC Christopher Bushnell had seen PC Harper's body 'tumbling in the road', jurors heard. A domestic violence victim told him the officer had given her the confidence to come forward about her abusive partner. He attended a suspected burglary with a colleague at 11.30pm on Thursday, August 15, 2019. The newly married police officer, 28, suffered "catastrophic" injuries after trying to stop three teenagers stealing a quad bike on August 15 last year. "He did not recall seeing any shoes on the body but thought there were dark coloured trousers. His tragic and agonising death was just four weeks after marrying sweetheart Lissie Beckett. PC Andrew Harper's body was so bloodied after being dragged to his death his colleagues thought it was a deer carcass, a court has heard. The court heard PC Kemp saw "no lights on the car at all" and he saw something that made him think that "they had stolen a cash machine". 11.28pm: The officers get a first glimpse of the Seat headlights approaching their car in Admoor Lane. But PC Harper and his colleagues came across the gang driving towards them on narrow Admoor Lane. Officers are carrying out house-to-house inquiries, reviewing CCTV footage, interviewing witnesses and conducting forensic examinations, Det Supt Kent added. However, recent additions Yan Valery, Rekeem Harper and Sam Cosgrove are all pushing for their first starts for Blues.. Defender Marc Roberts remains absent as he serves the second of his two-match suspension.. Tom Ince is pushing for his full debut for Luton . . We are no longer accepting comments on this article. Cole unhitched the bike and dived through a passenger window to escape the hero cop who had got out of the unmarked BMW police car. Pictures show Pc Harper and his new wife Lissie celebrating their wedding at the award-winning stately venue Ardington House, a Georgian manor in Oxfordshire set in gardens and parkland. When PC Harper was found lying in the road, he was breathing but the pattern was reflexive and 'was that of a deeply unconscious individual'. 'It is on all the evidence that, in the case of Long, the prosecution invites you to reject any claim he did not realise that he was dragging a policeman in the shape of PC Harper behind that car for over a mile to his inevitable death. He first did a test run with three colleagues in the Seat, pulling a mannequin of the same weight of Pc Harper behind, then swerving to follow the pattern thought to have been followed by Long on August 15. What happened in the Ukraine helicopter crash? Henry Long, 18, from Mortimer, Reading, and two 17-year-olds, who cannot be named for legal reasons, all deny murdering the Thames Valley Police officer. I had been outside just for a cigarette but otherwise had not left. PC Harper almost reaches the car and Cole but runs into the loop of the strapping trailing from the boot. "With his ankles caught in a strap that was trailing behind a car being driven at speed along a country lane, he was dragged for over a mile along the road surface, swung from side to side like a pendulum in an effort to dislodge him, losing items of his police uniform along the way, with the rest of his uniform being quite literally ripped and stripped from his body. Long then sped off from the scene, but in the act of chasing Cole, PC Harper "unwittingly stepped, with both feet, into the loop made on the road surface by the trailing strap". The three defendants were arrested later at a nearby travellers' site. James Wood For Mailonline Within 10 minutes of the officer's death, a police helicopter spotted the defendants' car parked up at a council-run travellers' site at nearby Burghfield Common, its engine still hot and clearly visible on the helicopter's thermal image camera. 'Trapped by his ankles, mercifully probably rendered unconscious from the start, so that he knew nothing about it, he was dragged by Long's driving for over a mile to his death. As PC Harper tried to stop him, the officer's feet were encircled in the crane strap, and he was dragged along as Long drove off. Long replied: "Because I accept that I killed him from what I was doing, the way I was driving. 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Detective Superintendent Stuart Blaiksaid the defendants had shown no remorse or helped police piece together what happened during the investigation. PC Andrew Harper was responding to a report of a quad bike theft in Berkshire A police officer who was dragged behind a car sustained such severe injuries one of his colleagues "could not. The Old Bailey heard a statement from PC Simon Pink who said he knew 28-year-old PC Harper but "from the injuries I saw I could not recognise him". Andrew Harper, 28, suffered "utterly catastrophic" injuries as he was dragged to his death in Berkshire last August, a court has heard. Cole, from Aldermaston, and Bowers and Long, both from Mortimer, Reading, have admitted conspiring to steal the quad bike. Chief Constable John Campbell said the death of PC Harper had left the entire force "shocked and saddened". `I am employed as a Senior Case Manager by Epiq Corporate Restructuring, LLC, located at `777 Third Avenue, New York, New York 10017. 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"During the course of that high-speed journey, and until at last, he became disentangled, his police uniform was quite literally ripped and stripped from his body. PC Andrew Shaw, who responded to a report of a stolen quad bike with PC. Keep up with breaking news, traffic and travel updates and whats on from across the county plus unrivalled Reading FC coverage. "So proud of him. Today, grieving officers having been laying floral tributes at the scene where their colleague was killed. Swans swim in a flooded field near Ibsley in Hampshire (Photo: Andrew Matthews/PA) The Met Office has issued three yellow warnings for "persistent heavy rain" and there are flood alerts across Britain as the wet weather shows little sign of letting up. The trial is abandoned due to the coronavirus pandemic. And as PC Harper died, that makes Long guilty of murder.'. 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