A suspect, wanted in connection with the killing of Bradford PC Sharon Beshenivsky, has been charged with her murder after being brought back to Britain from Somalia.

Detectives ended two years on the run for Mustaf Jama after he was extradited from the African country yesterday.

And late last night he was charged with PC Sharon's murder and was due to appear before Leeds magistrates today.

He was also charged with robbery, two charges of possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life and two charges of possessing a prohibited weapon.

Months of meticulous planning with other agencies and authorities at home and abroad finally resulted in the arrest of Jama, 27, in his homeland of Somalia by West Yorkshire Police.

He was flown back to the UK yesterday with West Yorkshire detectives.

Last night he was held at an undisclosed police station after being questioned about PC Beshenivsky's murder and the botched robbery at the Universal Express travel agents in Morley Street, Bradford, on November 18, 2005.

PC Beshenivsky, 38, was shot dead with a handgun as she went to investigate the travel agency robbery with her colleague, PC Teresa Milburn, who was also shot at close range and badly wounded. She is now back at work.

The murdered officer, a mother-of-three and stepmother-of-two, was only minutes from going off duty to celebrate her daughter Lydia's fourth birthday when she was gunned down as three men - armed with a 9mm pistol, a Mac 10 sub machine gun and a knife - burst out of the office.

PC Beshenivsky, who lived at Hainworth, near Keighley, was killed instantly by a bullet to the heart.

West Yorkshire Police's Homicide and Major Enquiry Team started Operation Geneva to track down her killers and last December Jama's brother, Yusuf Abdillh Jama, 21, of Birmingham, and 26-year-old Muzzaker Imtiaz Shah, of London, were jailed for a minimum of 35 years for PC Beshenivsky's murder.

Another man wanted in connection with the killing of PC Beshenivsky is still on the run. Piran Ditta Khan is believed to be in Pakistan.

Yesterday a police spokesman said: "Following months of international investigation by West Yorkshire Police, 27-year-old Mustaf Jama has been arrested in, and extradited from, Somalia.

"West Yorkshire detectives flew back to Britain with Jama, wanted in connection with the murder of PC Sharon Beshenivsky in November 2005. He is being transferred to a West Yorkshire police station.

"This arrest is the latest step in the continuing investigation to bring all those suspected of involvement to court."

Three other men have been jailed in connection with the incident. Brothers Hassan, 26, and Faisal Razzaq, 25, of London, were convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 20 years and a minimum of 11 years respectively.

Raza ul Haq Aslam, 26, who was living at Halifax at the time of the incident, was imprisoned for eight years after he was found guilty of robbery.

Shah and Faisal Razzaq were involved in the killing of PC Beshenivsky after failing to surrender to bail for firearms offences committed a year before her death. They were caught hurling a bag of guns from a car after a high-speed motorway chase. They admitted possessing prohibited weapons and were later given additional jail terms.

Shah and Yusuf Jama are awaiting a further trial after allegedly stabbing a fellow inmate at Frankland Prison, Durham, where they are serving their sentences.

In May this year, Lydia Beshenivsky, now five, presented a bouquet of flowers to the Queen when she visited Bradford.

Earlier this week 80 officers and staff involved in the murder investigation received commendations from West Yorkshire Chief Constable Sir Norman Bettison.