Post by Carl LaFong on May 10, 2024 14:04:57 GMT
murder.
The 75-year-old ringleader of an armed robbery in which a police officer was shot dead almost 20 years ago has been jailed for life for her murder.
Piran Ditta Khan 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 convicted of murder following a trial at Leeds Crown Court.
He was told he would serve a minimum term of 40 years in prison.
The judge, the Honourable Mr Justice Hilliard, said that PC Beshenivsky's "courage and commitment to her duty that day cost her her life".
He told Khan: "The sentence I pass is no measure of the value of the life that has been lost.
"That's beyond measure and no sentence I pass can put right what you've done wrong."
PC Beshenivsky had been responding to reports of an armed robbery at a travel agent with her colleague, PC Teresa Milburn, when she was fatally attacked.
PC Milburn was seriously injured.
The court was told how PC Beshenivsky "had been discussing her daughter's family birthday party with Teresa Milburn when she heard the call for assistance".
"We can say with absolute certainty that her thoughts were with her family very shortly before she died," the judge said.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-68986221
Ideally he would be hanged.
The 75-year-old ringleader of an armed robbery in which a police officer was shot dead almost 20 years ago has been jailed for life for her murder.
Piran Ditta Khan 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 convicted of murder following a trial at Leeds Crown Court.
He was told he would serve a minimum term of 40 years in prison.
The judge, the Honourable Mr Justice Hilliard, said that PC Beshenivsky's "courage and commitment to her duty that day cost her her life".
He told Khan: "The sentence I pass is no measure of the value of the life that has been lost.
"That's beyond measure and no sentence I pass can put right what you've done wrong."
PC Beshenivsky had been responding to reports of an armed robbery at a travel agent with her colleague, PC Teresa Milburn, when she was fatally attacked.
PC Milburn was seriously injured.
The court was told how PC Beshenivsky "had been discussing her daughter's family birthday party with Teresa Milburn when she heard the call for assistance".
"We can say with absolute certainty that her thoughts were with her family very shortly before she died," the judge said.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-68986221
Ideally he would be hanged.