US woman Aimee Betro has been found guilty of attempting to shoot a man dead in the UK. But the investigation into the Wisconsin native revealed her to be "fairly unexceptional" with virtually no "criminal footprint". And it remains unclear why she became a would-be contract killer.
On an autumn night six years ago, Betro pointed a 9mm gun at Sikander Ali in a suburban cul-de-sac and pulled the trigger, as she had been hired to do.
But instead of firing, the weapon jammed - saving the man's life.
It marked the mid-point of a plot more suited to a television drama, and one that eventually ended several years later and thousands of miles away with Betro's capture in Armenia.
It started, however, the year before the botched shooting in 2019, at a clothes shop in Birmingham's Alum Rock.
