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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Matthew Cooper

US woman claims murder bid evidence against her is ‘terrible coincidence’

A US citizen accused of attempting to shoot a stranger dead has suggested the perpetrator was “another American woman” who sounded similar to her, used the same phone and wore the same sort of trainers.

Aimee Betro, 45, told jurors that it was “all just a terrible coincidence” that she was around the corner from the scene of the attempted assassination six minutes later.

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