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26/10/2006
Bullet missed PC’s body armour
Newcastle Crown Court has heard that the fatal shot which killed PC Sharon Beshenivsky missed her body armour.
As the policewoman ducked, the bullet missed her armour striking her in the chest from above and the left as she moved to avoid her attacker.
A ballistics expert also gave evidence that a second shot from the same gun had struck and wounded PC Teresa Milburn. A third shot had hit a nearby library building.
One of the five men accused of murdering PC Sharon Beshenivsky, 25-year-old Muzzaker Imtiaz Shah, has pleaded guilty to her murder, however he denies firing the shot that killed her.
The other four defendants, Yusuf Abdillh Jamma, 20, Raza Ul-Haq Aslam, 25, Faisal Razzaq, 25 and his 26-year-old brother Hassan Razzaq, deny murder.
PC Beshenivsky, 38, was shot dead as she responded to a robbery at a travel agents in Bradford on November 18, 2005.
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As the policewoman ducked, the bullet missed her armour striking her in the chest from above and the left as she moved to avoid her attacker.
A ballistics expert also gave evidence that a second shot from the same gun had struck and wounded PC Teresa Milburn. A third shot had hit a nearby library building.
One of the five men accused of murdering PC Sharon Beshenivsky, 25-year-old Muzzaker Imtiaz Shah, has pleaded guilty to her murder, however he denies firing the shot that killed her.
The other four defendants, Yusuf Abdillh Jamma, 20, Raza Ul-Haq Aslam, 25, Faisal Razzaq, 25 and his 26-year-old brother Hassan Razzaq, deny murder.
PC Beshenivsky, 38, was shot dead as she responded to a robbery at a travel agents in Bradford on November 18, 2005.
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Crimestoppers has offered a £50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the killers of PC Sharon Beshenivsky. PC Beshenivsky, a 38-year-old mother-of-three with two stepchildren, was shot dead by armed robbers as she went to answer a call at a travel agency in Bradford on November 18.
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