THE widow of PC Andrew Harper has told of her anguish at being denied the chance to celebrate his 30th birthday with him today.
Lissie Harper released a photo of the pair together and said she would have used the occasion to spoil her husband, killed on duty four weeks after they married.
Instead, she plans to take a quiet walk with a flask of tea and some flowers to remember him.
Lissie, 30, said in Oxfordshire: “His 30th birthday would have been something we would have celebrated, and it’s still very surreal to me that we’re not, and he’s not here.
“Everything is different now and that highlights the cruelness of it – he’s not going to have another birthday.
“Thirty is such a big one that you do make an effort to spoil them.
“That’s what we would have been doing. It would have been a really special day, so it’s very bitter to have to spend that without him.
“I would have taken him away, done something special.”
PC Harper died when he was dragged behind a car as he investigated a quad bike theft in Berkshire in August 2019.
Three teens were jailed for manslaughter.
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