Murder of Sharon Beshenivsky
Shooting of a British police officer
PC Sharon Beshenivsky (née Jagger; 14 January 1967 – 18 November 2005) was a West Yorkshire Police constable shot and killed by a criminal gang during a robbery in Bradford on 18 November 2005, becoming the seventh female police officer in Great Britain to be killed on duty. Her colleague, PC Teresa Milburn, was seriously injured in the same incident. Milburn had joined the force less than two years earlier; Beshenivsky had served only nine months as a constable in the force at the time of her death, having been a community support officer before.
Closed-circuit television cameras tracked a car rushing from the scene and used an automatic number plate recognition system to trace its owners. This led to six suspects being arrested; three were later convicted of murder, robbery, and firearms offences; two of manslaughter, robbery, and firearms offences; and one of robbery. Another suspect, Piran Ditta Khan, was arrested in Pakistan more than 14 years later and was extradited to the United Kingdom from Pakistan in April 2023. He was found guilty of murder, at Leeds Crown Court, in April 2024. The following month he received a life sentence, with a minimum term of 40 years.
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Beshenivsky had been serving as a police officer for nine months. She had previously been a police community support officer with West Yorkshire Police.
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