A US woman has been sentenced to 30 years in a British jail after trying to kill a man in Birmingham, England.

Aimee Betro, 45, from Wisconsin, flew to the UK in August 2019 and spent more than two weeks in the country before trying to shoot the man outside his home, West Midlands Police said in a statement Thursday.

Betro was recruited by father and son Mohammed Aslam and Mohammed Nazir to kill the man, who is the son of a man with whom the pair had been embroiled in a feud. Both Aslam and Nazir have also been jailed for their role in the plot.

The intended victim survived the close-range assassination attempt because Betro’s gun jammed. She later returned and fired shots at his house before flying back to the US.

The shooting sparked a major international law enforcement operation, w

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