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The husband of the murdered police officer Sharon Beshenivsky Sharon Beshenivsky has branded her killers "cowards" who had taken the life of a woman "loved by everyone who met her".

After leaving flowers outside the travel agency in Bradford, West Yorkshire, where his 38-year-old wife was shot on Friday afternoon, Paul Beshenivsky said his world was "a darker place without her". He said: "She was my rock. It breaks my heart to think I will never hear her infectious laugh again, to think she won't be here to see our children grow.

Detectives were questioning four men and a woman from London's Somali community in connection with the murder. The suspects were tracked to the Thamesmead district of south-east London on Saturday by West Yorkshire Police's homicide and major inquiry team using Bradford's "Big Fish", an automatic number plate recognition system. This records the details of every vehicle entering and leaving Bradford and enables detectives to check them against a police database.

The suspects, who have been in the UK for some time, were taken from London to Yorkshire yesterday morning in a high-speed, heavily guarded armed convoy and were interviewed at police stations across West Yorkshire. Forensic science searches also continued at the Universal Express travel agency in Bradford city centre.




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