UK - David Bieber, Convicted Cop Killer on Trial for Attempted Murder of Prison Guard, 10 Oct 2017

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Today I was driving past where PC Ian Broadhurst was shot dead and thought I'd give Bieber a google. He was supposed to be on trial in November for the attempted murder of a female prison guard but I can't find anything so assume it must be delayed.


A LIFER who murdered a policeman has allegedly knifed a woman prison officer in a maximum security jail.

David Bieber is accused of grabbing her from behind and repeatedly slashing her neck, hands and arms with a 12in blade.

A source said: “This was a savage attack and she’s lucky to be alive.

“Bieber is a high risk prisoner in one of Britain’s toughest jails. Yet he has apparently been able to get a deadly weapon. There must be an urgent inquiry.”

It is unclear if the weapon used at Long Lartin Prison, Worcs, was a knife or an implement made into a blade.

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AN inmate accused of attempting to murder a prison officer in a Worcestershire prison is due to stand trial later this year.

David Bieber, also known as Nathan Wayne Coleman, is due to stand trial for the attempted murder of Alison Smith following an incident at HMP Long Lartin.

The 52-year-old appeared over videolink at Worcester Crown Court from HMP Wakefield on Friday. He is due to stand trial at the city's crown court on November 25 this year.

Bieber has denied the attempted murder of Alison Smith, wounding her with intent to do her grievous bodily harm and unauthorised possession in prison of a knife or offensive weapon (a pronged metal bar).

The charges relate to an incident at the prison in South Littleton, Evesham, on October 10, 2017.

David Bieber (AKA Nathan Wayne Coleman) to face trial for 'trying to kill a prison officer'

 

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Some background:

USA

Bieber had come a long way from his American roots to this world of illicit drugs and body-building. He was born on February 13, 1966, in Fort Myers, Florida, to a respectable but unremarkable middleclass family. His father, Frank, is a retired headteacher and his mother, Sandy, is a retired schoolteacher. He has a younger sister, Michelle, now married.

He was apparently a happy-go-lucky teenager and a natural athlete. He lived with his parents in the palm-lined streets of Fort Myers. In July 1992, he was crowned South Eastern USA man's light-heavyweight bodybuilding champion.

Mr Bieber senior said his son changed drastically because of the steroids. "That was the beginning of the end," he said. "He was once a nice quiet young man. Who would have thought it would turn out like this?"

Bieber was wanted over the murder of Markus Müller, a German-born bodybuilder, who was shot dead in February 1995. Both men had been romantically involved with Danielle Labelle, from Bonita Springs, Florida. She married Bieber a week before Müller was murdered, but left him to be with his rival.

Police in the US believe the two men were also bitter enemies in the lucrative steroid trafficking business.

Bieber is suspected of hiring John Saladino, 31, to find someone to shoot his rival for $1,000 (about £520).

The gunman, David Snipes, is serving a life sentence for first degree murder in the US and Saladino admitted second degree murder and was jailed for 15 years.

The supreme court of Florida heard that Danielle Bieber found her lover's body and told police her husband, David, "could have done this".

His former girlfriend, Michelle Stanforth, sought a restraining order, claiming he attacked her and had told her: "You'll be sorry." She was shot outside her home in August 1995, but survived.

Steroids changed obsessed body builder


“It was a lover’s triangle, but it was also about the drug dealing and the money and the turf,” said former Lee County Sheriff Rod Shoap, speaking to WINK News cameras in 2003. Shoap is talking about David Bieber, the man at the center of the crime.

Detectives say Bieber wanted Markus Mueller dead, because the two both dealt steroids, and dated the same girl.
They say Bieber paid another man $1,000 to hire Snipes.

Bieber was never convicted in this case, right now he’s in prison overseas for murdering an English police officer.

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David Bieber cruelly stole the innocent child's identity so he could escape police in the United States who wanted to speak to him about the murder of his friend and the attempted murder of an ex-girlfriend.


Bieber is believed to have trawled births and deaths registers to find the names of dead children who would have been about the same age as him had they lived.

Nathan Coleman, who was born on June 28 1968, just a couple of years before Bieber, fitted the bill perfectly.

He was the son of Tommy Wayne Coleman, an ex-policeman from Forsyth County, Georgia, and tragically died on January 6, 1975, leaving Bieber free to pay the $38 needed to get a copy of his birth certificate from the public records office.
It is thought Bieber travelled to Georgia because in Florida it is almost impossible to get hold of another person's birth certificate without affidavits. In Georgia all he needed was the cash.

But Nathan Coleman was just one of many identities which police believe Bieber was ready to assume as he tried to escape his past.

When he was arrested in January, detectives discovered Bieber was carrying four different birth certificates – three American and one British – and a hand-written list of dead British children.

Tragic boy who had his identity stolen

 

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UK

A police officer was shot in the head at point blank range as he pleaded for his life, a court has heard.

David Bieber "calmly" shot 34-year-old Pc Ian Broadhurst in Leeds last Boxing Day after firing at Pcs Neil Roper, 45, and James Banks, 26, a jury was told.

The 38-year-old denies murder, two counts of attempted murder, possessing a firearm with intent to endanger life and possessing 200 9mm bullets.

Mr Bieber, of Oakwood, Leeds, admitted possessing ammunition without a permit.

Jurors heard how the last few seconds of Pc Broadhurst's life were recorded by the officers' patrol car equipment.

Pc Broadhurst, who had already been shot in the chest, was heard to scream, "Do not shoot me. Please no" as he lay seriously injured on the ground.

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Bieber was sitting in a stolen BMW outside a betting shop in Oakwood, Leeds, on 26 December 2003 when he was approached by traffic constables Ian Broadhurst and Neil Roper.

Believing the car was "parked suspiciously", they had checked the number plate, discovered it was false and asked Bieber to accompany them to their car.

Although he was calm and cooperative, the officers had called for back-up because they had an "uneasy" feeling about the man now sitting in their back seat.

Cornered, and unable to risk arrest because of his wanted status in his native Florida, Bieber pulled out a 9mm handgun and shot Pc Broadhurst at point blank range in the head and abdomen.

He miraculously escaped injury when a bullet ricocheted off his police radio.

Bieber escaped down Dib Lane, shooting indiscriminately as he ran, before stealing a car at gunpoint to make his escape.

Pc Broadhurst died shortly after being taken to hospital in Leeds while officers maintained a vigil at the bedside of his injured colleague, Pc Roper.

Det Supt Chris Gregg, the man charged with leading the hunt for the killer, later emerged to face the media.

"To say that everyone in the force is shocked and staggered is a huge understatement," he said, vowing to track down the person responsible.

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For whatever reason, a taxi delivered him to the Royal Hotel in Dunston, Gateshead, at 3pm on December 30. There have been underworld suggestions that even then he may have been planning to carry out a contract killing.

The man in the distinctive spectacles and hat signed the register as “Harris, 2 Law Street, Notts” and spoke little before locking himself in the top floor room.

Vicki Brown, the receptionist, was uneasy and looked out a newspaper photograph of the man police were seeking for the Leeds shooting.

She placed a beer mat across the forehead on the image and drew on a pair a spectacles before passing on her suspicions to Stan McKale, 59, the proprietor, who called the police.

A full-scale armed operation was mounted around the mock Tudor building before marksmen were led to the outside of the room.

They shouted for Bieber to come out in his underpants as a tense seven-minute stand-off ensued while he mulled over his options.

He had the murder weapon, a self-loading 9mm pistol with 14 rounds in the magazine and one in the breech ready to fire. A further 205 home-made rounds were found in the room.

Cop killer David Bieber branded 'bestial and an escape risk' by top judge

The judge said Pc Broadhurst and Pc Roper had treated Bieber with "conspicuous fairness and consideration".

He added: "You repaid their courtesy by killing Pc Broadhurst and attempting to murder Pc Roper."

He told the court the aggravating feature in the case was that Bieber did not need to shoot Pc Broadhurst through the head.

He added: "You had already disabled him and he was defenceless.

"You could have escaped then but you chose to wait and fire a second shot at point-blank range.



"It must be acknowledged that he might have died as a result of your first shot, but you made certain of his death."

The judge said that action meant Bieber could not be released early from jail and must spend his life in prison.

He has become one of only 25 people to be given "whole" life sentences in England and Wales. Others have included Harold Shipman, Myra Hindley and Jeremy Bamber.

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A KILLER who shot dead a policeman was planning his fifth jail break attempt... while he sued prison bosses for his maximum security risk status.

Documents seen by the Mirror reveal evidence David Bieber was plotting an escape while fighting for cushier conditions at the High Court.

American Bieber, 45, who gunned down PC Ian Broadhurst in Leeds on Boxing Day 2003, had already tried to break out from prison at least four times.

Cop killer David Bieber planned fifth escape bid, legal papers reveal


And the judge said he had rightly been ranked as “one of the most dangerous people currently in the prison system”.

Bieber’s security categorisation means he has to move cell every 28 days and change wing every three months, alongside other tight restrictions.

He was earlier this year found to be unfit for a security downgrade due to the “nature of his offending”, fears that he had “access to finances, resources and/or associates that could assist with an escape attempt” and due to his very long sentence.

Philip Rule, for Bieber, argued that the director of high security, who took the decision, had failed to disclose all the information he took into account. He insisted that the killer’s human right to a fair hearing had been violated.

But, dismissing his challenge, the judge said: “The offence here was at the upper end of bestial. For someone to have committed such a grievous crime he must have no control when he has normal human contact.

“It is therefore perfectly reasonable to suppose that somebody who has committed a crime as grave as this, and who has accepted in no respect at all the reason for his incarceration, would make every effort to escape from prison at the first opportunity.

“The murder offence here must loom large in any judgment as to whether David Bieber is a high escape risk.

“Similarly, the fact that he will be held at least until 2041 is a highly relevant consideration.”

Mr Justice Mostyn said Bieber had only been entitled to “the very broadest gist” of the information available to the director of high security.

He concluded: “The arguments that have been put forward in this case are completely untenable.

“Indeed, I would characterise them as absurd.”

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June 13 trial date . . . so far.

 

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