PC Sharon Beshenivsky death: Man extradited and charged with murder of PC shot dead in 2005
Piran Ditta Khan, a 74-year-old man, has been extradited from Pakistan and taken into custody at a West Yorkshire police station. He has been charged with the 2005 murder of PC Sharon Beshenivsky, as well as robbery, two counts of possessing a firearm with intent to endanger life, and two counts of possessing a prohibited weapon. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said that the charges were authorised in 2006 and led to the issuance of the extradition warrant. Khan is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court.
PC Beshenivsky, who had been an officer for nine months, was fatally shot in Bradford, West Yorkshire, when she responded with colleague PC Teresa Millburn to an alarm at a travel agent in Morley Street on 18 November 2005. PC Millburn was also shot but survived. Khan was arrested in Pakistan in 2020, and since then, the CPS has been working closely with Pakistani partners to complete the legal process so that he could be extradited back to England to face the allegations from almost 20 years ago. PC Beshenivsky was a mother of three and stepmother of two children.