A man has been extradited from Pakistan and charged with the murder of PC Sharon Beshenivsky, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has said.
PC Beshenivsky was gunned down while responding to a robbery at a travel agent in Bradford in November 2005.
The 38-year-old had only served nine months with West Yorkshire Police when she died.
Piran Ditta Khan, 74, has been extradited to the UK and charged with murder, robbery, two counts of possessing a firearm with intent to endanger life and two counts of possessing a prohibited weapon.
Khan, who was arrested by police in Pakistan in January 2020, has been remanded into custody to appear before Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Thursday.
The charges against Khan were authorised in 2006, leading to the issuing of the extradition warrant, the CPS said.
Joanne Jakymec, chief crown prosecutor for the CPS, said: “Since Piran Ditta Khan was arrested in Pakistan in 2020, our specialist prosecutors have been working closely with our Pakistani partners to complete the legal process in the country so that he could be extradited back to England to face the allegations from almost 20 years ago.”
Two men, Muzzaker Imtiaz Shah and Yusuf Abdullah Jamma, have previously been sentenced to life in prison over the shooting of PC Beshenivsky, who was killed on her daughter’s fourth birthday.
Her colleague, PC Teresa Millburn, was seriously injured in the same incident.
Bradford came to a standstill for her funeral, when hundreds of officers lined the route of the cortege, and a memorial was later unveiled at the scene of her death in 2009.
