A man has been jailed for life for the murder of a policewoman who was shot dead during a bungled robbery
Pc Sharon Beshenivsky, 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.
Jama did not fire the fatal shot, but the prosecution said he was "as much guilty of murder" as the gunman.
He was part of a gang that shot the popular officer and wounded her colleague, Pc Teresa Milburn, during the robbery.
Fled abroad
The gang believed that up to £100,000 could be inside, but they escaped with little more than £5,000.
Sentencing Jama, judge Mr Justice Openshaw said he was one of a "team of ruthless and dangerous men".
Using a friend's passport, Jama 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.
Sharon Beshenivsky had been a Pc for less than a year
He was convicted 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, who is thought to have fired the shot which killed Pc Beshenivsky.
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.
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