Former Grahame Park resident Muzzaker Shah, 25, has admitted gunning down and killing PC Sharon Beshenivsky during an armed robbery in Bradford last year.

Shah was charged last year with murder, attempted murder, robbery and four firearms offences relating to the death of PC Beshenivsky and the shooting of her colleague, PC Teresa Milburn, at a travel agency on November 18.

The 38-year-old mother of three and stepmother of two was shot dead on her daughter Lydia's fourth birthday.

Two months earlier, Shah was seen in the Grahame Park estate carrying a gun.

One of five men on trial at Newcastle Crown Court in connection with the death, Shah admitted killing PC Beshenivsky on October 4, but a court order preventing this guilty plea from being reported was only lifted by Justice Andrew Smith on October 11.

On Wednesday, PC Milburn pointed out Shah as the man who shot her at close range during the burglary.

While giving evidence at Newcastle Crown Court, PC Milburn, 37, said Shah pointed the gun directly at her before she heard a bang.

She said she felt immense pain and could feel blood running down her face and was left lying on the floor gasping for breath.

Four other defendants - Yusuf Abdillh Jama, 20, of Whitmore Road, Small Heath, Birmingham; Raza Ul-Haq Aslam, 25, of St Pancras Way, Kentish Town; Faisal Razzaq, 25, and his 26-year-old brother Hassan, both of Sebert Road, Forest Gate, east London - all deny her murder.

Shah alone has been charged with the attempted murder of PC Milburn, to which he pleaded not guilty.

He has also pleaded guilty to robbery and the firearms offences.

In 1998, when Shah was 17 and living in Grahame Park, he and a friend, Romaine Nurse, were attacked with a hammer and a metal bar near Colindale Tube station.

Shah suffered a fractured skull, but later recovered.

At the time, he lived with his father, Sayed, mother, two sisters and three brothers in a flat in the estate.

It is unclear if Jama also used to live in Grahame Park, but he was said to be a regular customer at the Halal butchers in The Concourse, Grahame Park.

The trial continues.