Piran Ditta Khan has been charged with the murder of a police officer, who was shot dead in an armed robbery 20 years ago.
According to BBC, he spent around two decades running from justice for playing a leader in killing PC Sharon Beshenivsky on November 18, 2005, in Bradford.
Last year, the 75-year-old man was deported from Pakistan to face trial in England with six other male associates.
Although he had previously admitted to the robbery, Khan had denied taking the officer’s life away.
On Thursday, he was found guilty of possessing a firearm and a prohibited weapon, two counts each.
Sharon was gunned down upon arriving at the robbery scene unfolding at a travel agents situated in the city center.
Just as she approached the entrance alongside colleague PC Teresa Milburn, three men suddenly opened fire at them.
While Sharon had breathed her last at the crime scene, Milburn was severely injured.
Six people had been arrested and accused of murder and manslaughter charges, where Khan was the seventh person to have faced this trial.
Jurors stated that he had a “pivotal role in planning the raid and giving instructions to the others.”
As per his own words, a partner named Hassan Razzaq was “eating sandwiches” with him as they waited outside in a car while the raid was being carried out back at the business station.
Razzaq and his brother, Faisal Razzaq, were sentenced for firearm offences, robbery, and murder along with those three armed men – Muzzaker Shah, Yusuf Jama, and Mustaf Jama.
Another person called Raza Ul-Haq Aslam was sent down for robbery.
Khan had escaped to Pakistan following Sharon’s death, and was subsequently arrested by Pakistani authorities in 2020, then sent to the UK.
