{"id":15185,"date":"2019-09-17T09:36:54","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T08:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=15185"},"modified":"2019-09-17T09:36:54","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T08:36:54","slug":"four-people-arrested-in-connection-with-death-of-pc-andrew-harper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/four-people-arrested-in-connection-with-death-of-pc-andrew-harper\/","title":{"rendered":"Four people arrested in connection with death of PC Andrew Harper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Four people have been arrested on suspicion of murdering a police officer. PC Andrew Harper died after he was dragged along a road by a vehicle in Sulhamstead, Berkshire, on August 15th.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14722\" style=\"width: 526px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14722\" class=\" wp-image-14722\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/Untitled-10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"516\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/Untitled-10.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/Untitled-10-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/Untitled-10-768x499.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 516px) 100vw, 516px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14722\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PC Andrew Harper \/\/ Family Handout<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Jed Foster, 20, was charged over the death on August 19th but denied murder.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Today the Thames Valley Police re-arrested three people in connection with the PC&#8217;S death and arrested a new 21-year-old suspect. The three men were a \u00a0originally arrested on August 16th but were released on bail. They are an 18-year-old man and two 17-year-old boys,\u00a0 from the Reading area.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">*ARRESTS MADE*<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We have today made four arrests as we continue investigating the death of PC Andrew Harper.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Three people have been re-arrested, along with a 21-year-old man.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">All have been arrested on suspicion of murder and theft and are in custody.<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zCZkiRrTjr\">https:\/\/t.co\/zCZkiRrTjr<\/a> <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/v8mIRujnNH\">pic.twitter.com\/v8mIRujnNH<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u2014 Thames Valley Police (@ThamesVP) <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThamesVP\/status\/1173865547353731073?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 17, 2019<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Detective Superintendent Alisa Kent, of the Thames Valley Major Crime Unit, said:<\/strong> &#8220;We are continuing to investigate the death of our colleague PC Andrew Harper, and today we have re-arrested three people in connection with this.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;In addition to these re-arrests, we have also arrested a further suspect, a 21-year-old man from Basingstoke.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>He added:<\/strong> &#8220;This follows new evidence coming to light as the investigation has progressed in recent weeks.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The four arrested men are all currently in police custody and are arrested on suspicion of murder and theft.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four people have been arrested on suspicion of murdering a police officer. PC Andrew Harper died after he was dragged along a road by a vehicle in Sulhamstead, Berkshire, on August 15th.\u00a0 Jed Foster, 20, was charged over the death on August 19th but denied murder. Today the Thames Valley Police re-arrested three people in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":14722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[556,1577,1035,101],"class_list":["post-15185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk-news","tag-crime","tag-pc-andrew-harper","tag-thames-valley-police","tag-uk"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15186,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15185\/revisions\/15186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}