Wisconsin woman found guilty in international mutder for hire plot

A Wisconsin woman who was hired by her British lover as a would-be assassin, but then botched the attack and spent five years on the run, has been found guilty of conspiracy to murder. 44-year-old Aimee Betro of West Allis attempted to shoot a man dead outside his home in Birmingham, England, on September 7, 2019, but failed because her gun jammed – leaving her would-be victim to escape unscathed through “sheer luck,” according to a prosecutor from the Crown Prosecution Service in the West Midlands. After a case that spanned continents and involved multiple crime agencies, including the FBI and the National Crime Agency, Betro was convicted Tuesday at Birmingham Crown Court. The court had heard that, despite living thousands of miles away, Betro had become entangled in a family revenge plot arranged by father and son, Mohammed Aslam and Mohammed Nazir, from Derbyshire, England. The plot stemmed from a fight the pair had with the owner of a clothing store in Birmingham in 2018. Betro will be sentenced on Thursday, August 21.