Rookie police officer PC Sharon Beshenivsky was murdered by Piran Ditta Khan, who was the ringleader of a gang which was behind a robbery at Universal Express Travel in Bradford, West Yorkshire
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''They were told that, on the eve of the raid, Khan partied with sex workers and drank champagne. Some were given £80 to pay for entertainment and sex, it was claimed. After the raid, the "panicked" group gathered again at a safe house in Harehills, Leeds, with the shooter shaving off his hair.
PC Beshenivsky's colleague, Teresa Milburn, 37, was wounded during the bungled raid of the travel agency. PC Beshenivsky, who was a mum, was taken to hospital but medics were unable to save her following the gunshot. She became the seventh serving female police officer to be killed in the line of duty in Britain.
The trial has been told PC Beshenivsky and her colleague were blasted by an armed robber at point-blank range just before the end of their shift. In a statement, PC Milburn told the court if the robbers had just waved the gun at them, they would have just run off. ''
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iran Ditta Khan murdered a police officer in 2005 - and was finally convicted today (
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LONDON (AP) — A 75-year-old man was found guilty Thursday of the murder of a female British police officer who was shot dead on the street nearly two decades ago
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''Beshenivsky, who had three children and two step-children, was gunned down on her youngest daughter’s fourth birthday and had been an officer for only nine months when she died from her injuries.
Milburn, herself only two years in the job, told police the pair “didn’t have a chance” to get away from the gunman, and that they would have run away if they had been given a warning.
Police officers in Britain do not carry guns on routine patrols.
Khan was the last of the seven men involved in the robbery to be convicted, and was long-considered the mastermind of the gang. He stayed in the lookout car during the robbery.
Khan fled to Pakistan two months after the raid. He was arrested by local authorities in Pakistan in January of 2020 and finally was extradited to the U.K. last year.''
Jailed: Yusuf Jama, Mustaf Jama and Muzzaker Shah were each handed 35-year sentences for PC Beshenivsky's murder