{"id":15245,"date":"2019-09-20T09:52:50","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T08:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=15245"},"modified":"2019-09-20T09:52:50","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T08:52:50","slug":"charges-dropped-against-man-accused-of-pc-andrew-harper-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/charges-dropped-against-man-accused-of-pc-andrew-harper-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"Charges dropped against man accused of PC Andrew Harper murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A 20-year-old man who was accused of killing PC Andrew Harper has had the murder charges dropped against him after spending a month in police custody. Prosecutors said they were no longer continuing the case against Jed Foster.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14722\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14722\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14722\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/Untitled-10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"650\" 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: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14722\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PC Andrew Harper \/\/ Family Handout<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Newlywed PC Andrew Harper was killed on duty when he was dragged along a road by a vehicle in Berkshire on August 15th. A post-mortem examination found the PC died of multiple injuries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Prosecutor Jonathan Polnay told the Old Bailey:<\/strong> &#8220;The Crown Prosecution Service concluded the full code is not met. There is a not a realistic prospect of conviction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;Proceedings against Mr Foster cannot and should not be continued.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Henry Long, 18, from Reading, and two boys, 17, are accused of murder and conspiracy to steal a quad bike. Mr Long will remain in custody while the other two will be in a youth detention accommodation. A plea hearing will take place on December 13th with a trail expected on March 9th 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Thomas King, 21, from Basingstoke, has been charged with conspiracy to steal a quad bike and was granted conditional bail until December 13th.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 20-year-old man who was accused of killing PC Andrew Harper has had the murder charges dropped against him after spending a month in police custody. Prosecutors said they were no longer continuing the case against Jed Foster.\u00a0 Newlywed PC Andrew Harper was killed on duty when he was dragged along a road by a&#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":[1571,1577],"class_list":["post-15245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk-news","tag-andrew-harper","tag-pc-andrew-harper"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15245","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=15245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15246,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15245\/revisions\/15246"}],"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=15245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}