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Robbery mastermind found guilty of murdering Pc Sharon Beshenivsky

The mastermind of an armed robbery that ended in a police officer being shot dead has been found guilty of her murder.

Piran Ditta Khan has been convicted almost 20 years after Pc Sharon Beshenivsky was killed while interrupting a raid at family-run Universal Express travel agents in Bradford, West Yorkshire, in November 2005.

She and her colleague Pc Teresa Milburn, who were both unarmed, were shot at point-blank range by one of the three men who had just carried out the robbery as

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