Jessie Cole (left) and Albert BowersAndy Burnham has ordered one of his top ministers to find a way to keep the killers of PC Andrew Harper in prison.
The prime minister wants justice secretary Alex Norris to “work through further options” to prevent the early release of Jessie Cole and Albert Bower.
They were sentenced to 13 years for manslaughter in 2000, but are due to be freed in January under controversial measures to stop prisons running out of spaces.
Burnham has been hit with a furious backlash since it emerged that Norris and Cole would benefit from the early release scheme.
On Monday, Downing Street said it was “not possible” to exempt “one or two offenders” convicted of manslaughter from the scheme.
However, Norris will now look at ways to keep “a greater numbe...
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