A US hitwoman who flew halfway across the world to carry out an assassination attempt for her British lover was caught thanks to her own mother, it emerged today.
The Mail can exclusively reveal that Jeanne Johnson, 64, the mother of Aimee Betro, 45, agreed to handover a DNA swab to the FBI when her daughter went on the run following the botched UK hit.
Ms Johnson’s sample was examined by scientists and found to be a ‘familial’ match for DNA discovered by West Midlands Police on a glove left at the scene of the attempted assassination and on parcels of gun parts and bullets Betro subsequently sent to Britain.
It allowed officers to link her to both crimes, revenge plots set up on the orders of her Derby-based boyfriend and drug dealer, Mohammed Nabil Nazir, 31, who used her to get back at two separate associates he held grudges against.
Hannah Sidaway OBE, a specialist lawyer for the Crown Prosecution Service in the West Midlands, told the Mail’s Trial+ podcast that the DNA swab was ‘key’ to pinning the crimes on Betro.
