TIMELINE OF EVENTS
● November 2003: Sharon Beshenivsky joins West Yorkshire Police as a Police Community Support Officer.
● February 2005: She becomes a West Yorkshire Police officer.
● November 13, 2005: Piran Ditta Khan and Hassan Razzaq travel from London to carry out reconnaissance on the Universal Express travel agent in Morley Street, Bradford.
● November 17: Four of the group gather at a safe house in Leeds to celebrate and drink champagne and
vodka, before visiting a brothel.
● November 18, 7am: PC Beshenivsky, 38, and PC Teresa Milburn, 37, head into Bradford Central police station. 3pm: Three men posing as customers go in to Universal Express, brandish weapons, assault staff and demand money, before threatening to “shoot the youngest”.
3.26pm: Waqas Yousaf triggers a silent alarm. PC Beshenivsky and PC Milburn are alerted and head over. As they approach the door, a gunman emerges and shoots both officers before firing indiscriminately on the way to a getaway car. The robbers
escape with more than £5,000. 3.32pm: West Yorkshire Police are told a colleague has been shot. They arrive in minutes. PC Beshenivsky is taken to hospital but dies.
● November 25: Police name three men they want in connection with the murder – 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 Jama is thought to flee to his native Somalia.
● October 2006: A trial starts for five of the group. Shah pleads guilty to murder before the jury is sworn in. ● December 2006: Yusuf Jama is found guilty of murder. Brothers Hassan and Faisal Razzaq are cleared of murder but found guilty of manslaughter. Raza Ul-Haq Aslam, who acted as a lookout, is cleared of murder and manslaughter while the jury fail
to reach a verdict in relation to his robbery charge.
●December 20: Reports state Mustaf Jama fled Britain via Heathrow disguised as his sister in a veil.
● December 22: Shah and Yusuf Jama are sentenced to life, with a minimum of
35 years. Faisal Razzaq is given a life sentence and told he will serve a minimum of 11 years.
● March 2007: Hassan Razzaq is jailed for 20 years.
● May 2007: Raza Ul-Haq Aslam is
jailed for eight years after being convicted of robbery during a retrial.
● November 2007: Mustaf Jama is arrested and extradited to the UK from Somalia.
● March 2008: Yusuf Jama and Shah are sentenced to four years, concurrent with their minimum 35-year life sentences, for stabbing a fellow prisoner at the highsecurity Frankland Prison.
● January 2009: A jury fails to reach a verdict in the murder trial of Mustaf Jama.
July 2009: Mustaf Jama is jailed for life with a minimum term of 35 years after being convicted of murder and firearms offences at a retrial at Newcastle Crown Court.
● January 2020: Khan is arrested in Pakistan and appears in an Islamabad court, where his extradition is discussed. He asks to be tried in his home country.
● April 2023: Khan is extradited from Pakistan and taken into custody at a West Yorkshire police station where he is charged with murder, robbery, two counts of possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life and two counts of possession of a prohibited weapon.
● October 2023: Khan pleads guilty to robbery. He denies murder, two counts of possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life and two counts of possession of a prohibited weapon.
● February 2024: Khan goes on trial at Leeds Crown Court.
● April 4, 2024: Khan is convicted of murder and firearms offences.