KILL OR HELP TO KILL — NO EARLY RELEASE. JUSTICE MUST MEAN JUSTICE.

A grieving family does not get an early release from its sentence.

A life taken can never be returned. 

If you kill, or knowingly participate in serious criminal conduct that results in someone being killed, the sentence imposed by the court must mean something. Prison overcrowding must NEVER become the reason those responsible for the gravest offences are released early.

Please sign this Petition. Then share it — and, if you can, contribute to help us put it before thousands more people. Your signature could help change the law.

 
TWO MORE POLICE OFFICERS HAVE LOST THEIR LIVES IN THE LINE OF DUTY
At approximately 03:39 on Saturday, 22 August 2026, two serving Cleveland Police officers lost their lives in a catastrophic collision on the A66 at South Bank, near Middlesbrough.

Five members of the public travelling in the other vehicle also died.

Seven people went out that night and never returned home.

First and foremost, seven families have suffered an unimaginable loss. Our thoughts are with every family, friend and colleague affected.

The circumstances surrounding this collision are subject to investigation. That investigation must be allowed to establish exactly what happened, without speculation or premature judgement.

But the deaths of two serving police officers remind us of something Britain must never forget:

THE PEOPLE WHO PROTECT US PUT THEIR OWN LIVES AT RISK EVERY SINGLE DAY.
Police officers run towards situations from which the rest of us would instinctively retreat.

Firefighters enter burning buildings.

Paramedics attend violent and unpredictable incidents.

Prison officers work daily alongside dangerous offenders.

Emergency workers leave their families and go to work not knowing what that shift may bring.

Their families have every right to expect them to come home.

Sometimes, tragically, they do not.

And when somebody unlawfully takes a life — or knowingly participates in serious criminal conduct that results in another person's death — our justice system must respond with sentences that genuinely reflect the terrible and permanent consequences.

THAT IS WHY THIS PETITION MATTERS.
This campaign began with the case of PC Andrew Harper, a Thames Valley Police officer killed while responding to reports of the theft of a quad bike in 2019.

His death shocked Britain.

But our campaign is no longer about one police officer, one crime or one family.

It is about a principle.

When a court imposes a substantial custodial sentence for the unlawful taking of a life, that sentence should have meaning.

We oppose offenders convicted of the most serious offences resulting in death receiving early release merely because prisons are overcrowded or because the prison system is under administrative pressure.

Prison overcrowding is a problem for Government to solve. It should not become an additional punishment imposed upon victims and their families.

A victim does not receive an early return home.

A bereaved mother or father does not receive their child back early.

A husband or wife does not receive their partner back.

Children who have lost a parent cannot visit them.

Their sentence lasts for the rest of their lives.

Yet the offender responsible for that loss may eventually walk free.

That is why sentences imposed for the gravest offences must retain their meaning.

This is about murder, manslaughter and the most serious criminal conduct in which people knowingly participate and another person loses their life.

Those who directly cause death must be held properly accountable.

Those who knowingly participate in criminal conduct leading to a death must also face consequences proportionate to their individual culpability and the law.

And where substantial custodial sentences are imposed for these gravest offences, they should not subsequently be shortened simply to relieve pressure on the prison estate.

WE NEED THE PUBLIC TO STAND WITH US.
We particularly ask serving and retired:

Police Officers • Firefighters • Paramedics • Prison Officers • Armed Forces Personnel • Emergency Service Workers

—and every member of the British public who believes that the lives of victims must matter—to support this campaign.

Please sign the Petition.

Please share it.

Please leave a comment explaining why you support it.

And, if you are able, please contribute to promoting the Petition, so that we can place it before many thousands more people across the United Kingdom.

A contribution is not simply supporting a webpage.

It is helping us give victims, bereaved families and those who protect the British public a louder voice.

The campaign has received support from Rt Hon Sir Jeremy Hunt MP, who has undertaken to place the evolving Petition before the Justice Secretary.

But one MP cannot create the public pressure necessary for change.

We need thousands of voices. Then tens of thousands. Then hundreds of thousands.

Every signature counts.

Every share extends our reach.

Every contribution can help us reach another member of the public.

And every person who joins us makes it harder for this issue to be ignored.

JUSTICE MUST MEAN JUSTICE.
If you unlawfully take a life, or knowingly participate in serious criminal conduct that results in a life being taken, the punishment imposed by our courts must have meaning.

Victims cannot be released from death.

Their families cannot be released from grief.

Those responsible for the gravest offences should not be released early simply because the prison system has run out of space.

SIGN. SHARE. CONTRIBUTE. MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD.