An accomplice who aids and abets a crime where the crime is not actually committed due to accident, or circumstances, or events independent of his or her will shall—
(a) if the crime he or she aided and abetted was murder, be liable to imprisonment for life; or
(b) if the crime he or she aided and abetted was a crime other than murder, be punishable in the same manner as if the crime had been actually committed in pursuance of the abetment.