David Francis Bieber (born 3 February 1966[1]), also known under the alias Nathan Wayne Coleman, is an American convicted murderer.
Police arrested Bieber, thinking he had hired a hitman, but later released him due to lack of evidence.
[3] Bieber entered the United Kingdom on 26 September 1996 through the port of Ramsgate, Kent using a false passport.
On 26 December 2003, on the border between the Gipton and Oakwood areas of Leeds, unarmed traffic policemen Ian Broadhurst and Neil Roper saw Bieber's stolen BMW car parked at the junction of Grange Park Avenue and Dib Lane, where Bieber had just been into the adjacent post office.
[4][5] They identified the number plates as false, and asked him to accompany them to the police car, where Bieber sat in the back seat.
Roper then moved to handcuff Bieber, who, facing imprisonment for various offences in the UK and possible extradition to the US, drew a 9 mm handgun and fired an initial four shots at the officers, who tried to flee.
Bieber walked over to where Broadhurst was lying, and fired a fifth shot into his head at point blank range.
[3] After the shootings, Bieber escaped down Dib Lane, and stole a car at gunpoint outside a betting shop further down the road.
Following the shootings West Yorkshire Police launched a nationwide search for Bieber led by Detective Chief Superintendent Chris Gregg.
The Appeal Court ruled that the whole life tariff was not in itself a violation of the provision in the European Convention on Human Rights against "inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment".
[2] Paul McKeever, chairman of the Police Federation, described the ruling as "[leaving] the judiciary with blood on its hands".