Wednesday, 23 November 2005Police investigating the shooting of Pc Sharon Beshenivsky in Bradford on Friday have said they are actively seeking three male suspects.
They said there were significant developments in the case as they released a 31-year-old man on bail.
Pc Beshenivsky was shot dead and her colleague, Pc Teresa Milburn, injured during a robbery at a travel agents.
Officers have also released details of a silver Toyota hire car thought to be have been used in the robbery.
They identified the car as a Rav 4 model, registration number WP05 YTT.
Travelled north
Det Supt Andy Brennan, of West Yorkshire Police, said: "The vehicle was hired at Heathrow Airport on 25 October.
"We believe the vehicle travelled to West Yorkshire from London in the early hours of Friday and returned to London later that evening."
Police now have possession of the Toyota and want to hear from anyone who may have seen it particularly last Friday, the day of the robbery.
Pc Beshenivsky, 38, died after being shot in the chest on her youngest daughter's fourth birthday. She had been a serving police officer for nine months.
Her colleague Pc Milburn, 37, who joined the West Yorkshire force in April 2004, was shot in the shoulder during the raid on the travel agents on Morley Street in Bradford.
Five Somalian men, and a woman, were arrested in London over the weekend and brought to police stations in West Yorkshire but have all now been released.
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair said Scotland Yard detectives were helping West Yorkshire Police.
He said significant developments were expected in the next 24 hours and the search for suspects was being extended wider than the Somali community.
BBC correspondent Mark Simpson said it is understood police know the names of two of the men regarded as prime suspects in the case.
Their names, which have not been made public, are being circulated to police forces and to airports.
At Prime Minister's Questions in the Commons, Tony Blair offered condolences to the family of Pc Beshenivsky who, he said, had been "so tragically murdered on duty".
Meanwhile in Bradford, a large police operation was still continuing at the scene of the shooting with officers carrying out house-to-house inquiries in the city.
Outside the travel agency, forensic scientists have been carrying out a fingertip search behind a wooden barricade.
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