PC killer charged with stabbing prisoner

Aug 22 2007

A BIRMINGHAM man who murdered a rookie police officer during an armed robbery in Bradford has been charged with stabbing a fellow prisoner.

Yusuf Abdillh Jamma, from Small Heath, and Muzzaker Imtiaz Shah, who were convicted of murdering PC Sharon Beshenivsky during a raid on a travel agency in November 2005, have been charged with wounding with intent.

They will go before North Durham magistrates next week, via videolink, for the alleged attack on a 22-year-old serving life for murder, who is also an inmate at Durham's Frankland Prison, a maximum security jail.

Durham Police would not officially name the two men who have been charged, but a source confirmed their identities.

The prison attack took place in the alleged victim's cell in March. The injured inmate, from North West England, suffered wounds to the stomach and cuts to the face and received treatment at the University Hospital of North Durham.

Shah, from Kenton, Greater London, and Jamma have been sent to separate prisons.

The pair were jailed for life over PC Beshenivsky's death outside the Universal Express travel agency and told they must serve a minimum of 35 years each for the police officer's murder.

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

Shah admitted murder but denied firing the shot which killed PC Beshenivsky. Jamma was convicted of murder after he told the court he shot the officer by accident.

His brother Mustaf was thought to be part of the bungled raid and is believed to have fled back to their native Somalia.