Two men have appeared in court charged with assisting an offender in connection with the shooting dead of a Bradford police officer.

Adrian Robinson, 23, and Hewan Gordon, 36, appeared separately before magistrates in Leeds charged with assisting an offender between November 27 and December 12 last year, when they were both arrested in Gwent, Wales.

The men were charged in connection with PC Sharon Beshenivsky's death and the attempted murder of PC Teresa Milburn during a robbery at the Universal Travel Agents in Morley Street, Bradford, on November 18 last year.

Gordon was granted bail on condition he resided at his address in Alexandra Road, Newport, Gwent.

Unemployed Robinson was also granted bail on condition that he was electronically tagged between the hours of 9pm and 7am and that he reported at a police station three times each week. Robinson was also ordered to reside at his mother's house on the Grahame Park estate in Colindale, London.

No pleas were entered and both men were ordered to appear at Leeds Crown Court on Wednesday.

Five men accused of killing PC Beshenivsky will stand trial next month.

Yusuf Abdillh Jama, 19, Mussaker Imtiaz Shah, 24, Raza Haq Aslam, 24, Faisal Razzaq, 24, and Hassan Razzaq, 25, have all denied murdering the 38-year-old officer.

PC Beshenivsky, a mother of three children and two stepchildren, had been a police community support officer for two years before becoming a constable last February.

She lived with her husband Paul, a landscape gardener, in a converted barn in Back Shaw Lane, Hainworth, Keighley.

The couple's youngest daughter Lydia turned four on the day of her mother's death.

All five men accused of PC Beshenivsky's murder will go on trial at Newcastle Crown Court on Monday, October 9.

Shah, of no fixed address, has also denied the attempted murder of PC Milburn and three firearms offences.

Jama, of Whitmore Road, Small Heath, Birmingham, has denied a robbery charge and four firearms offences, as have his co-accused, Aslam, of St Pancras Way, Kentish Town, north London, Faisal Razzaq and Hassan Razzaq, both of Sebert Road, Forest Gate, east London.

The two West Yorkshire officers were shot at as they responded to an alarm call at the travel agency.

PC Milburn was shot and seriously injured during the incident but has since returned to work.

The trial is scheduled to last between eight and ten weeks. All five accused have been remanded in custody.