The widow of PC Andrew Harper has found love again four years after her husband was killed.

Lissie Harper, 32, is in a new relationship with an emergency services worker who she did not name.

PC Harper, who was based at Abingdon Police Station, was killed trying to stop quad bike thieves when he was dragged behind a vehicle at 60mph for a mile on the A4 in Berkshire.

He was 28 and the couple had married only four weeks before, after meeting when they were both 16.

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Speaking about the relationship for the first time on podcast The Stigma of Grief, she said that she did feel scared and had previously questioned if she was doing the right thing.

This is Oxfordshire: PC Andrew Harper

She said: “There’s this expectation to be this figure, the grieving widow... like we’re expected to wear black for the rest of our lives and sit and mourn. It’s not sustainable... and it’s not fair.

"And although some people resign themselves to being alone for ever, that’s not the case for me.”

She added: “It’s normal to feel scared and wonder if you’re doing the right thing. It’s a common feeling of do I deserve to feel happy again? Am I betraying the person I love who isn’t here?” 

She admitted the first date with her new partner felt “strange” after being with her late husband for so long.

“You become a different person when you go through something like this. You kind of grow out of the person you were before because you have no choice," she said.

And she said she was partly drawn to her new partner because of his job.

This is Oxfordshire: Lissie and Andrew Harper

She said: “People who are in that type of job are compassionate and thoughtful and caring. I can understand why people would think, ‘Why would you put yourself in that situation again?’

"You can’t think like that because then you’re in fear of living and that’s not right.”

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In 2020 after being acquitted of murder, Henry Long, 19, was sentenced to 16 years in jail and Albert Bowers, 18, and Jessie Cole, 18, were sentenced to 13 years for manslaughter.

Lissie campaigned for Harper’s Law where anyone convicted of killing an emergency services worker while committing a crime will face a mandatory life sentence.

It became law on November 24, 2021.

However, it did not affect the sentences of the men responsible for her husband's death.