A 74-year-old man has been extradited from Pakistan and charged with the murder of Pc Sharon Beshenivsky in Bradford in 2005, the Crown Prosecution Service said.
Piran Ditta Khan is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court charged with the murder and is also 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.”
Pc Beshenivsky, who had only been an officer for nine months, had three children and two stepchildren.
She was fatally shot as she responded with colleague PC Teresa Millburn to an alarm at a travel agent in Morley Street, Bradford.
Pc Millburn was also seriously injured.
