The Sharon Beshenivsky murder trial has been adjourned until Monday with the jury still not having reached verdicts.

The jury of six women and five men retired to consider its verdicts on Tuesday lunchtime but after two-and-a-half days of deliberations have failed to reach agreement.

PC Beshenivsky of Hainworth near Keighley was killed and PC Teresa Milburn seriously injured when they were shot outside the premises of the Universal Express travel agents in Bradford city centre on November 18 last year.

The court has heard the two officers were the first to respond to a silent panic alarm which had been activated by staff at the travel agents.

As they arrived, 38-year-old PC Beshenivsky was hit in the chest at close range by a round from a handgun and her 37-year-old colleague PC Milburn was also gunned down in the street.

Mr Justice Andrew Smith told the jury of six women and five men that they must take as much time as they needed when they retired on Tuesday in the tenth week of the trial at Newcastle Crown Court.

He urged them to try to reach unanimous verdicts.

On Tuesday, the jury asked to see again the CCTV footage of the shooting of the officers, but did not return to court to ask any further questions yesterday.

The judge, Mr Justice Andrew Smith, sitting at Newcastle Crown Court, told them he was not going to ask them to carry on deliberating today and was sending them home until Monday morning.

He told them: "Forget about it over the weekend and try to come fresh to it on Monday morning."

Yusuf Abdillh Jamma, 20, of Small Heath, Birmingham; Raza Ul-Haq Aslam, 25, of Kentish Town, London; brothers Faisal Razzaq, 25, and Hassan Razzaq, 26, both of Forest Gate, London, all deny the murder of PC Beshenivsky and two charges of possessing firearms with intent to endanger life, a 9mm self-loading pistol and a Mac-10 sub-machine gun.

The Razzaqs and Aslam also plead not guilty to robbery and two counts of possessing prohibited weapons, the two guns. Jamma has admitted those charges.

Muzzaker Imtiaz Shah, 25, of London, was cleared of the attempted murder of PC Teresa Milburn on the direction of the judge. He has pleaded guilty to all the other charges and will be sentenced when verdicts on the other defendants have been reached.