Mum was a hero who paid the ultimate price

Daughter's praise as killer jailed for life

- JEREMY ARMSTRONG

THE daughter of police officer Sharon Beshenivsky said she will always have a void in her life as the last of her killers was jailed.

Lydia Beshenivsky, who turned four on the day the PC was shot dead in 2005, said her mother was a hero who paid the ultimate sacrifice.

She told a court yesterday she was too young and innocent to understand how her mother had died responding to an armed raid.

Piran Ditta Khan, 75, mastermind of the robbery, will die in jail after he was sentenced to at least 40 years.

Lydia, now 22, remembered a car arriving at her house during her birthday party. She said: "It was the police coming to take my dad away. I had no idea where he was going.

"It did not concern me as I was too busy playing and eating cake."