A would-be assassin whose gun jammed when she tried to shoot her victim at point-blank range was among the criminals jailed in the UK last month.

Aimee Betro will spend 30 years behind bars for the failed assassination attempt, that saw her flew to the UK from the US to carry out the crime.

Also among the offenders put behind bars in August were three men who kidnapped a pregnant mother and threatened to chop her fingers off and a man who murdered a grandmother on her morning dog walk while he was living off-grid to avoid recall to prison.

A controlling ex who raped and murdered his former fiancée at a luxury hotel and a suicidal man who tried to murder a two-year-old by walking in front of a train were also locked up over the past month.

A cocaine-fuelled motorist will spend time be

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