A 75-year-old man has been sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison for the murder of British police officer Sharon Beshenivsky, who was shot dead during an armed robbery in northern England almost 20 years ago. Piran Ditta Khan, who was convicted in April, fled to Pakistan after the murder and was extradited back to the U.K. last year.
Judge Nicholas Hilliard handed down a life imprisonment sentence at Leeds Crown Court, with a minimum term of 40 years in prison. Despite Khan not firing the fatal shot during the robbery at a family-run travel agents in Bradford in 2005, prosecutors argued that he was the 'mastermind' behind the crime, organizing it and purchasing the weapons used.
