Socialite Jasmine Hartin Pleads Guilty to Manslaughter in Belize Cop Shooting
BY CARA TABACHNICK
APRIL 26, 2023 / 7:03 PM / CBS NEWS
Canadian socialite Jasmine Hartin pleaded guilty to manslaughter by negligence on Tuesday in the fatal shooting of a Belize police officer, the Belizean government confirmed to CBS News.
Hartin was raising twins with her former partner Andrew Ashcroft — and the son of UK billionaire businessman Lord Michael Ashcroft – when she was arrested two years ago for the deadly shooting of police superintendent Henry Jemmott.
The shooting shocked the Central American nation and rumors of drugs and infidelity abounded. Hartin shared her story with "48 Hours" correspondent Peter Van Sant confiding the details of her decadent life and the hours that led up to the fatal shooting.
After arriving on an island called Ambergris Caye in 2014, Hartin started to work as a realtor before meeting Ashcroft the following year, who she thought was "very clever, very funny, very witty." Hartin said she had "no money" and she wasn't attracted to the billionaire's son's wallet, she was more interested in building a life together.
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Jasmine Hartin, the former daughter-in-law of British billionaire Lord Michael Ashcroft, cast the killing as a tragic accident.
Noah Kirsch
Wealth And Power Reporter
Updated Apr. 26, 2023 11:53AM ET / Published Apr. 26, 2023 11:40AM ET
Canadian socialite Jasmine Hartin pleaded guilty to manslaughter by negligence on Tuesday, nearly three years after accidentally shooting a Belize police superintendent in the head with his own gun. The plea, submitted just before a trial was slated to begin, ends a lengthy saga that had captivated the Central American nation.
Hartin, the former daughter-in-law of British billionaire Lord Michael Ashcroft, reportedly wept as she declared herself guilty in the killing of police superintendent Henry Jemmott. “I just want Henry’s family to have peace now and I want this whole thing to be behind all of us so we can heal,” she said after leaving the courtroom.
According to Hartin’s account of the tragic shooting, she and Jemmott walked to a pier in May 2021 in San Pedro, Belize, after drinking cinnamon whiskey together. She said Jemmott let her handle his Glock 17, as he thought she needed to learn how to operate a firearm to protect herself. (Jemmott’s sister, Cherry, previously told CBS she believed her brother “would never do a thing like that.”)
After handling the weapon, Hartin said, Jemmott told her that his shoulder was stiff, and she offered to massage it. Jemmott then suggested they “head inside,” she recalled to CBS. She then tried to remove the magazine from the gun but struggled to see clearly in the darkness, she said. Suddenly, as she was fumbling with the firearm, it went off.
“He fell on top of me. And all I could feel was warmth. And I later then realized—he was bleeding on me,” she said. Jemmott’s body was later retrieved in the water near the pier.
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