Overview

• Betro told jurors at Birmingham Crown Court she was not the niqab-clad shooter who tried to kill Sikander Ali outside his Measham Grove home in September 2019.
• Prosecutors played CCTV of a figure approaching the victim and presented forensic testimony that Betro’s DNA was found on a glove inside the Mercedes linked to the attack.
• The defendant argued the person seen in the footage was too slim and said she was in Birmingham city centre with friends at the times of both the attempted shooting and the later window-firing incident.
• Betro proposed that an unidentified American woman matching the description carried out the attacks, describing the evidence against her as a “terrible coincidence.”
• She faces charges of conspiracy to murder, possessing a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence, and evading ammunition import restrictions, all of which she firmly denies.