An American 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.

A US woman who was hired as a killer and tried to shoot a man in the UK at point-blank range has been found guilty of conspiracy to murder. Would-be assassin Aimee Betro, from West Allis in Wisconsin, flew into the country as part of a plot to attack a British family in Birmingham in 2019, before going on the run for nearly five years.

A Wisconsin woman has been convicted in the United Kingdom of conspiring to murder a man in an assassination attempt tied to a long-running family feud. On Tuesday, August 12, a jury at Birmingham Crown Court found 44-year-old Aimee Betro guilty of conspiracy to murder and two firearms offenses,

A “f Wisconsin woman was convicted of attempted murder Tuesday after she was shockingly hired to kill a British storeowner — and failed only because her