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Stephanie Wareham

DNA of woman involved in alleged murder plot ‘found on gun parts sent to UK’

Aimee Betro pictured checking into a Birmingham hotel before she is alleged to have taken part in a failed assassination plot on September 7 2019 (West Midlands Police/PA) - (PA Media)

The DNA of an American woman alleged to have been involved in a failed assassination attempt was found on gun parts illegally sent to the UK more than a month later, a court has heard.

Aimee Betro, 45, is alleged to have flown from Wisconsin as part of a plot orchestrated by co-conspirators Mohammed Aslam, 56, and Mohammed Nabil Nazir, 31, of Elms Avenue in Derby, to attack a rival family on September 7 2019.

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