{"id":338443,"date":"2025-08-12T12:36:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T12:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/338443\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T12:36:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T12:36:13","slug":"would-be-niqab-assassin-guilty-of-conspiracy-to-murder-in-birmingham-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/338443\/","title":{"rendered":"Would-be niqab assassin guilty of conspiracy to murder in Birmingham | UK news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A would-be assassin who tried to shoot a rival at point-blank range while disguised in a niqab has been found guilty of conspiracy to murder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Aimee Betro, 45, who is originally from the US, flew to the UK as part of a revenge plot orchestrated by co-conspirators Mohammed Aslam, 59, and Mohammed Nabil Nazir, 31, to attack a family they had been feuding with.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Birmingham crown court heard how she had tried to shoot Sikander Ali outside his home in Yardley, Birmingham, on the evening of 7 September 2019, but her handgun jammed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Betro, who fled to the US while Aslam and Nazir were tried in the same court, will be sentenced at a later date.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">More details soon \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A would-be assassin who tried to shoot a rival at point-blank range while disguised in a niqab has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[748,393,4884,12,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-338443","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115015829689498899","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338443","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=338443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}