As he began to open his car door, the veiled woman walked toward him, raised a handgun and pulled the trigger. Mr. Ali scrambled back into his vehicle, threw it into reverse and sped off, security footage from a nearby house showed. “It is sheer luck that he managed to get away unscathed,” a local prosecutor, Hannah Sidaway, said. On Tuesday, Aimee Betro, 45, an American woman from Wisconsin, was convicted in the failed assassination attempt against Mr. Ali. A jury in a court in Birmingham found her guilty of conspiracy to murder, firearm possession and importing ammunition after a three-week trial.

Source: The Times August 12, 2025 20:20 UTC