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A man has been jailed for life for the murder of a policewoman who was shot dead during a bungled robbery. | |
Pc Sharon Beshenvisky, 38, was killed outside a travel agency in Morley Street, Bradford, in November 2005. | |
Mustaf Jama, 29, who denied murder, was convicted after a retrial at Newcastle Crown Court. A judge told him he would spend at least 35 years in prison. | |
Pc Beshenivsky, who had three children and two stepchildren, was responding to an alarm call when she was murdered. | |
She had been a serving constable for nine months when she died. | |
Fled abroad | |
Jama was part of a gang that shot the popular officer and wounded her colleague, Pc Teresa Milburn, during the robbery. | |
Using a friend's passport, he fled to his native Somalia following the murder but was brought back to the UK in 2007 after being smuggled out of Africa in an undercover operation. | |
Jama was convicted on Wednesday following a retrial after a jury failed to reach a verdict at a trial in January. | |
Five other men have already been convicted in connection with Pc Beshenivsky's death. | |
They include Jama's younger brother Yusuf and gang boss Muzzaker Shah. |