Fury as ‘perverse’ £3.5m revamp of traveller site where PC Andrew Harper’s killers hid begins despite pleas to axe plans

WORK has begun connected a “perverse” £3.5million revamp of the traveller tract wherever PC Andrew Harper’s killers hid.

It comes contempt the leader cop’s household pleading for the program to beryllium scrapped.

The officer, 28, who had conscionable wed woman Lissie, died erstwhile helium was dragged on the roadworthy by a car by 3 teenage quad motorcycle thieves successful 2019.

His killers, Henry Long, 19, and Albert Bowers and Jessie Cole, some 18, were arrested astatine the Four Houses Corner tract successful Ufton Nervet, Berkshire.

The trio — aboriginal convicted of manslaughter and jailed — had hid successful the camp, wherever they destroyed evidence.

In 2020, the dilapidated crippled was abandoned and the travellers rehoused.

But earlier this year, West Berkshire Council approved the revamp, featuring 17 double-berth caravan pitches with 2 parking spaces each, provisions for electrical car chargers and a children’s play area.

PC Harper’s mum Debbie Adlam described the determination arsenic “disrespectful” and accused the section authorization of “stamping each implicit Andrew’s memory”.

She wrote and told them she goes determination “as my lone spot to consciousness I americium adjacent to him” and “will interest implicit the likelihood of vandalising the tributes we place”.

Now aerial photographs amusement the beginnings of factual bases for caravans, with diggers connected site.

Tory councillor Ross Mackinnon said the taxpayer-funded strategy is “an insult to PC Harper’s memory”.

He called connected the Lib Dem-run section authorization to scrap the task and reconstruct the tract to nature, with a ­memorial to Andrew.

He told The Sun: “It conscionable seems ­perverse to redevelop the camp. It’s against nationalist decency to walk astir £4million refurbishing it.”

Thames Valley Police objected to the plan, saying the tract had agelong been utilized for “criminal activities”.

Council lawman person ­Denise Gaines said: “We ­effectively had nary choice.

This tract has been allocated to travellers since astatine slightest the 1960s and is important for america to present much-needed traveller accommodation.

“We are, of course, acutely alert of the history.”