The man responsible for the killing of Police officer Sharon Beshenivsky has been convicted of her murder after evading capture for 17 years.
Piran Ditta Khan, 75, fled to Pakistan two months after the fatal shooting in Bradford in November 2005.
He was found guilty of PC Beshenivsky’s murder and four firearms charges after a six-week trial at Leeds crown court.
Khan admitted robbery and had organized the raid on Universal Express travel agents because the owner, who has since died, owed him money.
The prosecution claimed this was false and told jurors that the defendant had planned the robbery with a view to stealing up to £100,000.
In his defence in court Khan admitted he had no idea that guns, including a Mac-10 submachine gun, were to be used in the raid.
Beshenivsky, 38, had been an officer for only nine months when she and a colleague, PC Teresa Milburn, responded to an alarm call at Universal Express on 18 November 2005.
The murder sent shock waves through policing in Britain and remains one of the most heinous attacks on officers in the line of duty nearly 20 years on.
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