An American citizen who attempted to murder a Birmingham clothing shop owner as part of an international assassination plot, before leaving the country and going on the run, has been convicted. 

‘Hitwoman’ Aimee Betro, 44, from Wisconsin, USA dressed in a niqab to hide her identity when she tried to shoot dead her victim outside his South Yardley home in an east Birmingham cul-de-sac in September 2019.