UK - PC Sharon Beshenivsky, 38, shot to death, Bradford, 18 Nov 2005 *arrest in Pakistan in 2020*

Police seeking a man over the murder of Pc Sharon Beshenivsky are considering the theory he may have fled the UK dressed as a veiled Muslim woman.

It is understood West Yorkshire Police - who have not commented on reports about the veil theory - regard it only as one of a number of possibilities.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/west_yorkshire/6195581.stm


So easy to do. :banghead:

This just a theory!
More predudice and fear and hate mongering.

montana_16 said:

This just a theory!
More predudice and fear and hate mongering.

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Yes. clearly it says it's just a theory in the article. i don't believe it to be 'predudice and fear and hate mongering'. i believe it to be a valid suggestion.

More on this story:

What About Our Rights?

The heartbroken husband of PC Sharon Beshenivsky yesterday attacked the "soft touch" immigration laws which left Somali criminals free to murder her.

Two of the armed gang who gunned her down in a bungled robbery were asylum seekers.

They were given permission to remain in Britain despite having convictions for a range of offences.

Yusuf Abdillh Jama, 20, faces life behind bars after being convicted of the coldblooded murder of the 38-year-old mother.

But his older brother Mustaf, a career criminal, remains at large after fleeing to Somalia. He was made a British national after the Home Office ruled it would breach his human rights to deport him there.

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/...R rights/article.do?expand=true#StartComments

Am i 'predudiced' in this case? you bet i'm prejudiced! :furious:

take note of the comment (in the comments section underneath the story) from US attorney, Marlene, Newark, New Jersey. she tells it like it is.

'Why did bad men kill our mummy?'

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/mailF...ews.html?in_article_id=423798&in_page_id=1770

Simply heartbreaking.

Floh said:

More on this story:

What About Our Rights?

The heartbroken husband of PC Sharon Beshenivsky yesterday attacked the "soft touch" immigration laws which left Somali criminals free to murder her.

Two of the armed gang who gunned her down in a bungled robbery were asylum seekers.

They were given permission to remain in Britain despite having convictions for a range of offences.

Yusuf Abdillh Jama, 20, faces life behind bars after being convicted of the coldblooded murder of the 38-year-old mother.

But his older brother Mustaf, a career criminal, remains at large after fleeing to Somalia. He was made a British national after the Home Office ruled it would breach his human rights to deport him there.

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/...R rights/article.do?expand=true#StartComments

Am i 'predudiced' in this case? you bet i'm prejudiced! :furious:

take note of the comment (in the comments section underneath the story) from US attorney, Marlene, Newark, New Jersey. she tells it like it is.

'Why did bad men kill our mummy?'

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/mailF...ews.html?in_article_id=423798&in_page_id=1770

Simply heartbreaking.

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Floh, I am not saying you are predudiced or hate mongering and fear mongering. And I felt very bad about this story back when it first happened .
And I believe each and every person should be searched AND show their face when traveling.

What I am talking about is now all Muslims are blamed and put under suspicion for bad things any of them do when most are not bad people and would not do bad things.
So much now is aimed at -Hate them all!, Fear them all ! Kill them all! Nuke 'em, yeah nuke 'em, nuke all them arabs. All them Muslims. These things are actually being spewed out on radio stations all over the United States.

I've seen pictures of horribly injured and killed Iraqis after thousands of 500 lb. bombs were dropped on them. People who have done nothing bad to anyone.
There was one of a grandfather holding is dead granddaughter with one of her feet hanging nearly off and he was looking up saying why are you doing this to us? A poor farmer. I find that awfully heartbreaking too. But no one seems to care because so many people think oh, they're all just terrorists anyway.

All my life I've seen whole groups being blamed every time any of that particular group has done wrong.

It seems one particular group has been spared that though, except when we were supposed to hate all Russians years ago.

Terrorism has been here forever, not just now. Bad guys and terrorists come in all colors and nationalities and religions. Some wear religious dress and some wear suits.

People should have to show their faces whenever they travel - its stupid that this could have happened. This story is really big over here, but the papers aren't hate mongering, they are just pointing out how the police think this man left the country.

From March 2007:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/bradford/6410633.stm

A man convicted of the manslaughter of policewoman Sharon Beshenivsky has been jailed for 20 years.

Hassan Razzaq, 26, of Forest Gate, east London, was found guilty of manslaughter, robbery and gun offences after an 11-week trial last year...

Razzaq's younger brother Faisal, 25, also of Forest Gate, east London, was cleared of the officer's murder, but convicted of her manslaughter, robbery and firearms offences. He was given a life sentence and told he must serve at least 11 years before being considered for parole.

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From May 2007:

http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/may/23/ukcrime1

A 26-year-old man was today jailed for eight years for taking part in the armed robbery in which PC Sharon Beshenivsky was killed.

Raza ul Haq Aslam had effectively acted as a lookout during the fatal raid on the travel agency in Bradford nearly two years ago.

The defendant was convicted of robbery in March following a retrial at Newcastle Crown Court.

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From December 2007:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1572799/Sharon-Beshenivsky-killers-denied-sentence-cut.html

Two men jailed for life for shooting a policewoman to death today failed to win a cut in their 35-year minimum sentences.

The Court of Appeal in London rejected arguments on behalf of Muzzaker Shah, 26, and Yusuf Jamma, 21, who killed Pc Sharon Beshenivsky during an armed robbery, that the terms were "manifestly excessive."

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From July 2009:

http://www.theguardian.com/global/2009/jul/22/murder-snatch-beshenivsky-pc

A judge allowed publication for the first time of a deal which saw the Foreign and Home Offices pay the African state, which has no diplomatic ties with London, to seize 29-year-old Mustaf Jama in the desert two years ago, close to his warlord father's headquarters.

The ambush of Jama's Land Rover by 15 militiamen nearly failed when a pilot, hired to fly the captured gangster to Dubai, tried to back out, thinking that he was caught up in an anti al-Qaida operation which could bring reprisals.

He was persuaded to proceed – and the course was set which ended in Jama's conviction in a retrial at Newcastle crown court, with a minimum 35-year term for the murder of PC Sharon Beshenivsky...

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From November 2014:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/mum-murdered-cop-sharon-beshenivsky-4719895

Nine years after Sharon, 38, was brutally gunned down during a botched raid on a travel agents, detectives have renewed the hunt for the gang’s alleged mastermind Piran Ditta Khan.

The former nightclub bouncer went on the run after the killing. And while the rest of the gang were caught, convicted and jailed, he has stayed free despite a £20,000 reward for information leading to his arrest.

He is believed to be hiding in *Pakistan...

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A BBC report about a recent development in this case:

Man arrested in Pakistan over murdered PC

A Sky News report:

Sharon Beshenivsky: Man wanted over British policewoman's death arrested in Pakistan

Man arrested

A man wanted by police in connection with the murder of PC Sharon Beshenivsky 15 years ago has been arrested in Pakistan.

Piran Ditta Khan, 71, was arrested yesterday and appeared in court in Islamabad today.

West Yorkshire Police officer PC Beshenivsky, 38, was shot dead while responding to an armed robbery at a travel agent's in Bradford on 18 November 2005. She became the seventh serving female officer ever to be killed in the line of duty in Britain.

Khan was remanded in custody to next appear in court on 29 January.

Man arrested in Pakistan over the murder of PC Sharon Beshenivsky | Daily Mail Online

Here is a report from the Sun about the recent arrest in this case:

Husband of murdered PC hopes arrest will finally bring closure 15 years on

A report from the Metro:

Husband of murdered PC Sharon Beshenivsky welcomes suspect's arrest | Metro News

Here is an update in the developments in this case from the BBC:

Man in court in Pakistan over PC killing

A video report about this case:

West Yorkshire Police and the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) have extradited a man from Pakistan wanted in connection with the murder of PC Sharon Beshenivsky in Bradford in 2005.

Piran Ditta Khan, 74, was arrested by Pakistani Police in January 2020.

Earlier today (Wednesday, 12 April) he was brought back to a police station in West Yorkshire and formally charged with six offences.

He’s been charged with murder, robbery, two counts of possessing a firearm with intent to endanger life and two counts of possessing a prohibited weapon.

Khan has been remanded into custody to appear before Westminster magistrates tomorrow. (Thursday, 13 April)

West Yorkshire Police are grateful to the National Crime Agency, the Pakistani Authorities and the CPS for their invaluable assistance in this matter.

Mr Justice Bryan set a plea hearing for 14 July, with a future trial set to last up to six weeks.

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PC Beshenivsky died after being shot on duty aged just 38, when responding to an armed robbery with a colleague at Universal Travel, in Morley Street, Bradford on November 18, 2005.

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Khan, 75, of no fixed abode faces five charges: murder, two counts of possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life, and two counts of possessing a prohibited weapon on the day of the alleged murder.

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He pleaded not guilty to those charges at LCC on October 6, 2023.

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But Khan admitted stealing cash from a man on the same day Beshenivsky was killed, pleading guilty to robbery at that same hearing last year.

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Beshenivsky was only the second policewoman to be killed on duty in the UK.

A man has been found guilty of murdering a police officer by planning the armed robbery in which she was shot dead almost 20 years ago.
Piran Ditta Khan, 75, spent nearly two decades evading justice for his part in the killing of PC Sharon Beshenivsky in Bradford on 18 November 2005.
Khan, who was extradited from Pakistan last year, was the last of seven men involved in the robbery to face trial.
He had previously admitted robbery but denied the officer's murder.

''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. ''

Piran Ditta Khan murdered a police officer in 2005 - and was finally convicted today (
Image: Andy Stenning/Daily Mirror)
''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

Sharon Beshenivsky: Detective's promise to murdered PC's husband​

Almost 20 years after PC Sharon Beshenivsky was shot and killed on her daughter's fourth birthday, the last member of the armed gang responsible for her death has been found guilty of her murder.

The conviction of Piran Ditta Khan, 75, marks the end of almost two decades of evading justice for his part in the killing of the West Yorkshire Police officer after she interrupted a raid at a Bradford travel agents on 18 November 2005.

For Andy Brennan, who was then the detective superintendent tasked with leading the manhunt, Khan's conviction is the fulfilment of a long-held promise he made to PC Beshenivsky's husband, Paul, on the day of her death.

"I gave him a commitment on that day that we would go to the 'nth' degree to make sure all of those responsible would be placed before the court," he says.

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Sharon Beshenivsky was a mum to three children and two stepchildren with her husband Paul


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Before Khan was convicted, a further six men had been sentenced in connection with PC Beshenivsky's death