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A man has been extradited from Pakistan and charged with the murder of a female police officer in Bradford, the Crown Prosecution Service said.
Piran Ditta Khan, 74, is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court charged with murdering Pc Sharon Beshenivsky in 2005.
On the afternoon of November 18, Beshenivsky and colleague Teresa Millburn responded to reports that an attack alarm had been activated at a travel agent on Morley Street in Bradford following reports of an armed robbery.
She suffered a fatal gunshot wound to the chest, and Milburn was also seriously injured. The attackers fled in a convoy of cars.
Millburn had joined the force less than two years earlier; Beshenivsky had served only nine months in the force at the time of her death.
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CCTV cameras tracked a car rushing from the scene and used an automatic number plate recognition system to trace its owners.
Pc Sharon Beshenivsky was killed in Bradford in 2005 (PA)
She was shot dead in 2005 (SWNS)Khan, who was arrested 14 years after the murder, has also been charged with robbery, two counts of possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life and two counts of possession of a prohibited weapon.
Joanne Jakymec, Chief Crown Prosecutor for the CPS, said: “A suspect wanted in connection with the murder of PC Sharon Beshenivsky in Bradford in 2005 has been extradited to the UK from Pakistan thanks to the continued hard work of prosecutors in the CPS’s Extradition and International Units.
“Since Piran Ditta Khan was arrested in Pakistan in 2020, our specialist prosecutors have been working closely with our Pakistani partners to complete the legal process in the country so that he could be extradited back to England to face the allegations from almost 20 years ago.”