Post by Scumhunter on Jun 15, 2024 5:48:02 GMT -5
From wgntv.com:
CHICAGO — A woman who reportedly has ties to Illinois is wanted by authorities in the United Kingdom in connection with a murder-for-hire plot against the owner of a Birmingham boutique and his family.
Aimee Betro flew to Chicago two days after pulling a gun on her target in the Birmingham village of Acocks Green in September 2019, a UK jury heard, according to The Telegraph. She ran off when the gun jammed but later returned and fired shots at a home shortly before texting the father of her would-be victim with threatening messages: “Stop playing hide-and-seek” and “Where are you hiding?”
The Mirror reported in April that Betro is originally from Chicago.
The men who allegedly hired Betro, Mohammed Nazir and his son Mohammed Aslam, were recently found guilty of conspiracy in Birmingham Crown Court, the newspaper Birmingham Live reported.
In court, jurors heard how Aslam and Nazir hired Betro and flew her to Birmingham to kill a man named Sikander Ali, with whom Aslam and Nazir had an ongoing dispute, the International Business Times reported. The men allegedly wanted revenge for an incident nearly a year earlier inside Ali’s clothing store that left both men injured and the store badly damaged.
A prosecutor said that on the day of the failed shooting, Betro donned a hijab to disguise herself, got out of a Mercedes and “calmly” walked toward Ali, her target, and pointed a gun at him.
“Mercifully and luckily for him the gun jammed,” the prosecutor, Kevin Hegarty, told the court.
It was the next day when she returned in a taxi, fired shots at a home and sent the threatening text messages. She flew back to Chicago two days after the failed shooting but not before contacting Virgin Atlantic in an unsuccessful attempt to have Nazir accompany her, the International Business Times report said.
Betro continues to elude British authorities, the reports said. Without naming Betro, a West Midlands Police spokesman said in a statement to WGN that “efforts to locate a woman we believe to have been involved in the conspiracy continue.”
A sentencing hearing for the father-son duo of Nazir and Aslam was scheduled for August 9.
While several reports indicated Betro is from Chicago, the British tabloid The Daily Mail reported Wednesday that she is from Milwaukee and worked for the Milwaukee Brewers. WGN’s attempts to confirm those details have so far been unsuccessful.
wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/aimee-betro-wanted-assassin-plot-united-kingdom/
Thoughts? I am placing Betro in the National Media section since this wild story has become national news both in the U.S. and UK national news networks and websites and around the world as well. Betro is apparently not even completely in hiding and the Daily Mail reports she is hiding in Asia and responding to messages on Facebook.
www.unilad.com/news/crime/hitwoman-suspect-aimee-betro-speaks-out-142393-20240614
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13529129/amp/failed-Assassin-England-Wisconsin-hitman.html
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