Piran Ditta Khan, who ran Indian restaurants in Aberdeen, is to be sentenced for the murder of PC Sharon Beshenivsky in 2005.
A former Scots businessman who was the mastermind behind a bungled armed robbery that saw a police officer shot dead is to be sentenced for her murder.
Almost two decades on, the gang's ringleader, Piran Ditta Khan, became the last of the seven men involved in the robbery to be convicted in April this year. Leeds Crown Court heard that although Khan did not leave the safety of a lookout car throughout the raid, he played a "pivotal" role in planning it and knew loaded weapons would be used. Prosecutors said this made him guilty of Pc Beshenivsky's murder "as surely as if he had pulled the trigger himself".
He flew to Pakistan two months after Pc Beshenivsky's death and remained at liberty there until he was arrested by Pakistani authorities in January 2020 and then extradited to the UK last year. Khan told jurors he did not know that a robbery was going to be carried out, or that weapons were going to be taken.
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