Ms Betro told defence barrister Paul Lewis KC she was in Birmingham city centre at the time of the attempted assassination and was with friends at the time of the secondary shooting at the intended victim’s house hours later.<\/p>\n
She also maintained that a woman described as having an American accent and being small and fat, who bought a vehicle linked to the plot, was not her.<\/p>\n
She denied the prosecution’s claim that Nazir or his father got her involved in a plan to kill, and that she was the person who actually wielded the gun.<\/p>\n
She added that she did not have possession of a gun at any time during the night of 7 September into the early hours of 8 September 2023, when three shots were fired at a house in Measham Grove after a woman arrived there in a taxi.<\/p>\n
The court heard father and son Aslam and Nazir were involved in a feud with intended victim Sikander Ali’s father, Aslat Mahumad.<\/p>\n
Nazir and Aslam had been injured during disorder at Mr Mahumad’s clothing boutique in Birmingham in July 2018, jurors have been told, leading them to conspire to have someone kill him or a member of his family.<\/p>\n