This is the shocking wedding shop brawl which sparked an assassination attempt by an American hitwoman disguised in a burka.

After Aimee Betro was found guilty of trying to shoot a man at point blank range outside his house in Birmingham, the bizarre feud which lies behind the transatlantic murder plot can be told in full for the first time.

Betro, 45, travelled from Milwaukee to the Midlands and lay in wait for Sikander Ali, 33, emerging from a Mercedes disguised in a niqab or a burka and opening fire.

Mr Ali escaped when the gun jammed but undeterred Betro returned in the early hours of the following day to fire three bullets through the windows of his family home on September 8, 2019.

Police said it was only by chance no one was killed.