Armed Robber Guilty of Murdering Policewoman 19 Years Ago

Published on April 4, 2024

The mastermind behind an armed robbery on a travel agency in 2005 has been convicted of the murder of a police officer trying to intervene. Piran Ditta Khan, 75, fled to Pakistan two months after the ill-fated raid on the Universal Express travel agency firm in Bradford on Nov. 18, 2005 but was finally tracked down in 2020 and later extradited to Britain. PC Sharon Beshenivsky, and her colleague PC Teresa Milburn, were unarmed when they came across the robbery and were shot at point-blank range as they emerged from the Universal Express shop. PC Beshenivsky, 38, suffered fatal injuries while PC Milburn, who was shot in the chest, survived....