COLD-blooded killer David Bieber was trapped partly because of his work as a club doorman in Kirklees.

The most wanted man in Britain who shot dead an unarmed policeman was identified after detectives discovered he had registered as a doorman with Kirklees Council.

And within hours of Bieber gunning down Pc Ian Broadhurst on Boxing Day last year, police were able to issue his photograph - taken from the council's door registration scheme files.

The registration scheme, set up several years ago in Huddersfield, was intended to ensure door staff met rigid standards.

A huge manhunt included Brighouse, where Bieber took cash from a machine, and ended in Northumbria where he had booked into a hotel and was arrested.

The news came today as Bieber started a life sentence for killing Pc Broadhurst, of Birkenshaw, in Leeds.

Bieber had registered with the council to work as a doorman at Legends club in Batley but used the name Nathan Wayne Coleman - the alias he had used to enter Britain from the United States, where he was wanted by the FBI for suspected murder.

Today Pc Broadhurst's widow told of her despair .

Eilisa Broadhurst, 25, welcomed Bieber's life sentence yesterday but said it would not bring her husband back.

She said Bieber "took away my dreams - and Ian's dreams. He took our life away".

Bieber, a bouncer and steroid abuser who is wanted in the US for a murder plot, was also convicted at Newcastle Crown Court of the attempted murders of two of Pc Broadhurst's colleagues, Pcs Neil Roper, 45, and James Banks, 27.

Jailing him for life, trial Judge Mr Justice Moses told Bieber he had shown no remorse or understanding of the brutality of his crime.

Bieber, 38, shot Pc Broadhurst in the head at point blank range on Boxing Day last year as he pleaded for his life.

Mrs Broadhurst, who had been married to Pc Broadhurst for two years when he was shot, said she hated Bieber but never wanted to think about him again.

"I can still hear his voice now, his American accent, and I hate him so much.

"I cried with relief when he was sentenced to life - for the rest of his life. I felt a weight had suddenly lifted off my shoulders."

She said her husband had been at the home of his mother, Cindy Eaton, for a family party on the morning before he died.

"My last thoughts of Ian was we were sat together watching a film on TV. We were happy and laughing. Halfway through he said he had to go on duty. He walked out of the house and out of our lives."

Pc Neil Roper, who was critically wounded in the Boxing Day shooting, said: "Not a second will pass when he is not in our thoughts. He lived for his job and he paid with his life for doing his duty."