Posted on 08/21/2025 11:43:47 AM PDT by nickcarraway
An American woman who traveled to the UK to try to assassinate her lover’s business rivals — only for the gun to jam on her — was sentenced Thursday to 30 years in prison.
Loved-up Aimee Betro, 45, traveled from Wisconsin for the twisted murder plot nearly six years ago in Birmingham, England, to please Mohammed Nazir, a British man she fell for on a dating app.
Surveillance footage caught Betro as she hid behind a full Islamic niqab face covering while waiting in a car — then stepped out to try to shoot her main target’s son, Sikander Ali, as he arrived home, just for the pistol to jam.
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HartleyMBaldwin: Did George Orwell have a grandson named Anthony Blair? I was thinking of the former prime minister of that name.
Sure seems like that was HartleyMBaldwin's question. Glad that I was able to answer it definitively.
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