(CNN) — 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.

Aimee Betro, 44, from Wisconsin, 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 prosecutor Hannah Sidaway, 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

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