Last of gang in cop killing found guilty

Published date05 April 2024
Publication titleEvening Chronicle
Piran Ditta Khan has been convicted almost 20 years after PC Sharon Beshenivsky, below, was killed interrupting a raid at a family-run travel agent in Bradford in 2005

She and her colleague PC Teresa Milburn, both unarmed, were shot at pointblank range by one of the three men who had just carried out the robbery.

Almost two decades on, Khan is the last of the seven involved in the robbery to be convicted.

The 75-year-old flew to Pakistan two months after PC Beshenivsky's death and remained at liberty there until he was arrested by Pakistani authorities in January 2020 and extradited to the UK last year.

Prosecutors said former takeaway boss Khan was the group's ringleader and, although he did not leave the safety of a lookout car during the raid, played a "pivotal" role in planning it and knew that loaded firearms were to be used.

They told jurors this made him guilty of PC Beshenivsky's murder "as surely as if he had pulled the trigger on that...

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