‘Oscceptional’ Wis. Hitwoman traveled abroad to aveng for man she met on dating app and spent years in hiding

A woman in Wisconsin traveled halfway around the world, disguised herself and tried to murder a man on behalf of someone she had met on a dating app.

Aimee Betro, 44, was sentenced on Tuesday, August 12 in Birmingham Crown Court in Britain of conspiracy to murder and two firearms charges, Crown Prosecution Service announced.

Betro, which the police described as an otherwise “unusual” woman from West Allis, WIS. With a minimal criminal “footprint”, traveled to the UK in 2019, a niqab dressed to hide for about 45 minutes.

When Ali arrived home, Betro could be seen on CCTV images that approached him with a gun “clearly visible in his hand”, but the gun stuck when she shot at an empty interval, which allowed Ali to get back in his car and escape, per cps.

The following day she took a taxi back to the Ali home and opened fire on the house, this time sent three bullets that caused “extensive damage” to the home.

When she left the scene in the taxi, texts sent from her burner phone to the victim’s father tried to torment him, including “Stop to play hide ‘n’ search you are lucky it gets stuck.” She escaped quickly from the UK afterwards, CPS said.

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Betro reportedly entered the world of international murder at the request of her lover, Mohammed Nazir from Derbyshire, whom she met on a dating app and visited in the UK between December 2018 and January 2019, heard lawyers in court, according to the court, according to the court The custodian.

The jury heard that a year before the attempt at Ali’s life, Nazir and his father, Mohammed Aslam, was injured in a struggle in a clothing store owned by Ali’s father – after which Nazir recruited his lover to commit murder when the two families bitterly feuded, The BBC reported.

Nazir and Aslam were each sentenced last year for conspiracy to murder charges. Nazir was sentenced to 32 years while Aslam got 10 years.

When Nazir and Aslam were tested, Betro hid in Armenia and had avoided catching for 5 years up to a reporter for Daily mail tracked her last year and tipped by police, reported the outlet. She was extradited to Britain to meet accusations.

Betro will be sentenced on August 21st.