Battery. Possession. Criminal damage. Racially aggravated public order offence. Albert Bowers – one of PC Andrew Harper’s teenage killers – has a long and disturbing rap sheet.
All this, we know.
One entry on his criminal ‘CV’, however, has gone largely under the radar until this week. Bowers also has a conviction for sexual assault, something which is considered a taboo even in the lawless Berkshire traveller community that produced him and his accomplices, and where criminality is endemic and encouraged. No further details are known about the incident.
Bowers, 17 then and 24 now, was under 18 when he committed the offence
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