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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Josh Halliday North of England correspondent

Robbers partied on night before PC Sharon Beshenivsky murder, court told

PC Sharon Beshenivsky
PC Sharon Beshenivsky was shot in Bradford in November 2005 when she and a colleague responded to an armed robbery. Photograph: West Yorkshire police/PA Media

An armed robbery gang partied with champagne, vodka and sex workers on the eve of the raid in which PC Sharon Beshenivsky was murdered, a court has been told.

Jurors heard that the men spent the night drinking at a “safe house” in Leeds and visited a brothel before the fatal shooting.

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