{"id":280729,"date":"2025-07-21T19:39:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T19:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/280729\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T19:39:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T19:39:10","slug":"woman-on-trial-over-birmingham-shop-owner-murder-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/280729\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman on trial over Birmingham shop owner murder plot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The court heard Mr Mahumad was believed to be the target of the attempted shooting on September 7 2019, with Ms Betro lying in wait outside the family home in a car she bought earlier that day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The jury was shown CCTV of his son, Sikander Ali, arriving home and a person with their face covered approaching him and firing the gun at point-blank range.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After it jammed, Mr Ali managed to escape by reversing his SUV out of the road, clipping the car door and damaging it so badly it would no longer close.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is claimed Ms Betro returned to the scene in a taxi in the early hours of 8 September and fired three shots through the windows of the empty family home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Prior to this alleged return visit, the jury were told she had sent messages to Mr Mahumad, which included: &#8220;Where are you hiding?&#8221; &#8220;Stop playing hide and seek, you are lucky it jammed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The trial continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The court heard Mr Mahumad was believed to be the target of the attempted shooting on September 7&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-280729","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}