PC Harper's widow: I've found love again

Wife of tragic officer is dating 999 worker, 4yrs on from horror death

- PATRICK HILL

THE widow of PC Andrew Harper has found love again, four years after her husband's horrific death.

Lissie, 32, is in a new relationship with an emergency services worker.

PC Harper, 28, was killed trying to stop quad bike thieves while on duty in 2019. He was dragged behind a car at 60mph for more than a mile down country roads in Berkshire.

The officer's clothes and body armour were ripped away and he suffered "absolutely catastrophic, unsurvivable injuries".

Three thieves were sentenced for his manslaughter in 2020.

Lissie and Andrew, who met when they were 16, had got married just four weeks earlier.

PRESSURE

Speaking about her new love for the first time on podcast The Stigma of Grief, Lissie admitted she felt pressure to be seen as grieving, but it was important to live again.