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Cop-killer suspect escapes in Muslim veil

2006-12-20

A SUSPECT in the killing of a policewoman fled Britain by disguising himself as a Muslim woman wearing a veil, The Times said today. According to the newspaper which cited unidentified police sources, Mustaf Jamma, a Somali man, assumed the identity of his sister and using her passport and wearing a veil got through security at London's Heathrow Airport. He apparently fled for his homeland after being implicated in the November 2005 murder of Constable Sharon Beshenivsky during an armed robbery in the town of Bradford. Her colleague, Teresa Milburn, 37, was shot and injured in the shoulder. Jamma, 26, escaped Britain between Christmas Day last year, and New Year's Day, The Times said. At the time of his departure, he had 21 criminal convictions and was one of Britain's most wanted men, with his photograph circulated to every police force, port and airport in the country. A spokesman for Heathrow Airport was quoted as saying in The Times: "Immigration control staff always do a visual check on people coming into the country but only random checks are made with outgoing passengers.'' Britain in May formally asked Somalia's largely powerless transitional government for help in tracing Jamma. Jamma's younger brother Yusuf Abdillh Jamma was earlier this week convicted of Constable Beshenivsky's murder, and Muzzaker Imtiaz Shah admitted the charge at Newcastle Crown Court in October. Another Family Affair. The pair will be sentenced on Friday along with two other men, Faisal Razzaq and his brother Hassan, who were convicted of manslaughter. Mustaf Jamma is thought to be under armed protection in Somalia, according to The Times, where his family wields a great deal of influence. Along with Jamma, Piran Ditta Khan is a sixth suspect in the murder who is on the run. Despite the majority of British police being unarmed, fatalities are rare and Constable Beshenivsky's death was the first of a female officer since 2001.

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No sign of Cop-Killer as UK police end Wales siege

2005-12-12

POLICE hunting a man suspected of killing the police officer Sharon Beshenivsky called off an armed siege of a house in South Wales early this morning. Dozens of homes in Newport were evacuated and people living near by were told to stay in the back of their houses when 40 officers surrounded the property yesterday morning. It is understood that Gwent Police, who were being assisted by West Yorkshire Police, believed that Muzzaker Imtiaz Shah, 24, was in the house. But shortly before 1am they said the man they were looking for was not in the area. Mr Shah, 24, is one of two men police still want to question over the murder of WPC Beshenivsky in Bradford on November 18. Mr Shah, also known as Pesci or Mr P, is regarded as the most dangerous of the suspects and is suspected of being the person who fired the fatal shot. Police are also looking for Mustaf Jama, 25, whose brother Yusuf, 19, has already been charged with WPC Beshenivsky’s murder. Her colleague WPC Teresa Milburn was shot in the shoulder during the bungled robbery of a travel agency. The Cromwell Road area of the city was cordoned off from about 7am until midnight, with a helicopter circling the area for much of the time. Police said residents had been moved away for their own safety. Crimestoppers has offered £50,000 for information leading to the conviction of the killers of PC Beshenivsky. Posters across Britain are urging people to look out for the two men still wanted for questioning. Officers had feared that they would try to leave the country.

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Somali Teenager Arrested in Shooting of Woman Police Constable

2005-11-28

One of three suspects in the murder of a woman police officer 10 days ago was being questioned by detectives last night after being arrested in connection with an unrelated alleged crime. Yusuf Jama, 19, was one of a group of up to seven Somalis seized by police in a raid on a terrace house in the Saltley area of Birmingham on Saturday. He was taken to a police station in the West Midlands where a sergeant recognised him as one of the men named and pictured the previous day over the killing of WPc Sharon Beshenivsky. Mr Jama's identity was established through fingerprints before he was transferred to West Yorkshire at 3am yesterday to be questioned by specialist officers. Police are still hunting his brother Mustaf Jama, 25, and Muzzaker Imtiaz Shah, 24, a British Asian, whom they have described as very dangerous and asked for the public to report any sightings immediately. All three were believed to have been living in London. WPc Beshenivwky, 38, was gunned down as she and her colleague WPc Teresa Milburn, 37, went to investigate a robbery at a travel agency in Bradford city centre. Witnesses to the arrest said that between four and eight people of Somali appearance were taken from the three-bedroom house in Bowyer Road, Saltley. Those arrested were handcuffed and their heads were covered by blankets as police vehicles blocked the quiet one-way street.

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Gang Fatally Shoots British Policewoman

2005-11-20

A gang of men shot and killed an unarmed policewoman and wounded another, and police arrested six people in connection with the crime Saturday, officials said. The two women were shot when they tried to tackle three men who had robbed a travel agency in the northern city of Bradford, police said. Constable Sharon Beshenivsky, a 38-year-old mother of three, died from a gunshot wound to the chest, despite wearing body armor. Beshenivsky had been a full time officer for nine months, police said. She was killed on her youngest daughter's fourth birthday. Her colleague, Constable Teresa Milburn, 37, was being treated in a hospital for a shoulder wound. Milburn, who joined the force in April 2004, also wore body armor. London's Metropolitan Police said it had arrested five men and a woman in connection with the shooting, but provided no further details. Before Friday, only two officers had been fatally shot in the last 10 years in England and Wales, one in 1995 and one in 2003, according to the Home Office. The shooting in the northern city of Bradford on Friday reignited a debate in Britain over whether front-line police officers — many of whom are unarmed — should be allowed to carry weapons. "The police service is being outgunned on the streets of Britain day and night," said police officer Norman Brennan, director of the group Protect the Protectors. Jan Berry, chairwoman of the Police Federation of England and Wales, said she doubted that arming police officers would make them safer. "Even if we armed every single police officer in this country that doesn't mean criminals aren't going to carry firearms," she told Sky News television. They let people that stoopid onto the Brit police force? Arming them won't make them safer? I'd say that being able to shoot back would make them quite a bit safer. My son's a Maryland State Trooper. If you told him he had to patrol the streets unarmed he'd laugh at you.

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