A US citizen accused of plotting to homicide a Birmingham store proprietor has appeared in courtroom after being extradited to the UK from Armenia the place she was arrested final summer time.
Aimee Betro, initially from Wisconsin, is accused of being concerned in a conspiracy to kill Aslat Mahumad and members of his household.
Betro, 45, was additionally charged with possessing a firearm with intent to trigger concern of violence, and a cost associated to the alleged importation of ammunition into the UK. She was flown to Gatwick airport on Thursday by officers from the Nationwide Crime Company’s Joint Worldwide Crime Centre.
Throughout a quick listening to at Birmingham magistrates courtroom on Friday, Betro spoke to substantiate her title and date of beginning and gave her house handle as a district on the outskirts of Yerevan, Armenia’s capital. She thanked the choose after she was remanded in custody.
Betro will subsequent seem at Birmingham crown courtroom on 14 February, after the district choose John Bristow was advised she had formally indicated pleas of not responsible to all three costs earlier than the listening to.
Adjourning the case, the choose advised her: “You might be charged with three offences: a conspiracy to homicide, a possession of a firearm with intent and an offence regarding the illegal importation of ammunition.
“The primary two of these two offences are so severe they’ll solely be handled on the crown courtroom.”
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