A US citizen disguised in a niqab whose gun jammed during a failed assassination plot in Birmingham has been jailed for 30 years.

Aimee Betro flew into Manchester Airport before she tried to shoot Sikander Ali at point-blank range outside his home in Measham Grove, Yardley, Birmingham, shortly after 8pm on September 7, 2019.

Jurors at Birmingham Crown Court found the 45-year-old graduate guilty of conspiracy to murder as well as possessing a self-loading pistol and fraudulently evading the prohibition on importing ammunition, on August 12.

The jury of six men and six women deliberated for almost 21 hours before returning its verdicts, two of which were by an 11-1 majority.

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Betro, who is originally from West Allis in Wisconsin but lived in Ar

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