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The conviction of Piran Ditta Khan marks the end of an 18-year hunt for justice after the killing of PC Sharon Beshenivsky.
Khan, 75, is the last of seven men involved in the fatal armed robbery to be convicted for his role.
The other six men were found guilty of offences including murder, manslaughter, robbery and possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life.
Here are the key events leading up to today's verdict:
- November 2003: Sharon Beshenivsky joins West Yorkshire Police as a Police Community Support Officer.
Officers are pictured patrolling floral tributes laid where PC Beshenivsky was gunned down in 2005
- February 2005: She becomes a serving police officer with West Yorkshire Police.
- November 13 2005: Piran Ditta Khan and Hassan Razzaq travel from London to carry out reconnaissance on Universal Express travel agents in Morley Street, Bradford.
- November 17: Four of the group gather at a 'safe house' on Harehills Lane, Leeds, where they party on champagne and vodka, and visit a brothel.
- November 18, 7am: Pc Beshenivsky, 38, and Pc Teresa Milburn, 37, begin their day from Bradford Central police station.
3pm: Three men posing as customers go in to Universal Express travel agents, before brandishing weapons, assaulting staff and demanding money before threatening to 'shoot the youngest'.
3.26pm: Waqas Yousaf manages to trigger a silent alarm. Police are alerted and Pc Beshenivsky and Pc Milburn respond to the report. As they approach the door a gunman emerges from the premises and shoots both officers before firing indiscriminately on the way to a getaway car. The robbers escape with a little over £5,000.
3.32pm: Officers at West Yorkshire Police's control room receive a Code Zero call, indicating a colleague has been shot. Officers arrive within minutes and Pc Beshenivsky is taken to hospital but cannot be saved.
The police officer's widower Paul Beshenivsky pictured at his home in 2020
- November 20: Paul Beshenivsky, Pc Beshenivsky's widower, arrives at the scene of the shooting to lay flowers.
- November 20: Pc Milburn is released from hospital.
- November 25: Police name three men they want in connection with the murder and issue photos of Muzzaker Shah, and brothers Mustaf and Yusuf Jama.
- November 27: Police arrest Yusuf Jama in Birmingham.
- December 12: Muzzaker Shah is arrested in Newport, Gwent.
- Between Christmas and New Year Mustaf Jamma is thought to flee the country to his native Somalia.
- January 2006: Hundreds of
