A man was today found guilty of the murder of a woman police officer and mother of five who was shot dead at point-blank range following a bungled armed robbery at a travel agency.

The jury of six women and five men unanimously found Yusuf Abdillh Jamma, 20, guilty of murdering Pc Sharon Beshenivsky.

Brothers Faisal Razzaq, 25, and Hassan Razzaq, 26, were both cleared of murder but found guilty by a majority of 10-1 of Pc Beshenivsky’s manslaughter on November 18 last year following more than 20 hours of deliberations in the 11th week of the trial at Newcastle Crown Court.

Pc Beshenivsky, a 38-year-old mother of three children and two step children, was shot and killed as she arrived at the scene in Bradford city centre on the day of her youngest daughter’s fourth birthday.

Her colleague Pc Teresa Milburn was also gunned down in the street as the robbers escaped with little more than £5,000.

Faisal and Hassan Razzaq were both cleared by a majority of the jury of possessing a MAC-10 sub-machine gun and a 9mm pistol with intent to endanger life.

Earlier the jury cleared a fourth man, Raza Ul-Haq Aslam, 25 of murder and manslaughter and four firearms offences. After 20 hours and 34 minutes of deliberations, the jury is yet to give their verdict on Mr Aslam in relation to a charge of robbery.

Jamma was also found guilty of possessing the firearms with intent to endanger life. He also admitted two counts of possessing the firearms and robbery earlier.

A fifth man, Imtiaz Shah, 25, had already admitted Pc Beshenivsky’s murder.

The judge, Mr Justice Andrew Smith, ordered the jury to clear Shah of Pc Milburn’s attempted murder part-way through the trial. No-one else was charged with shooting the 37-year-old officer.

Shah, of London, was told he would play no further role in the trial and was not in court today.

Two other men, including Jamma’s brother Mustaf and a man called Piran Ditta Khan, remain on the run from police.

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