Watching the case of Jasmine Hartin is a chilling reminder that banana republics are still a Postmedia Network Inc. One hundred years ago, some countries in Latin America were tagged “banana republics” because American fruit giants like DelMonte and Chiquita controlled everything aspect of life there. He added: “She is going to do everything in her power to get back into her children’s lives and be the absolute best mother, the mother she wants to be.”īut it is unlikely that her battle with the wealthiest family in Belize is over. “She has been deprived of seeing them every step of the way.” “Her only objective at this point is to see her children, this has been the primary tragedy for Jasmine,” Weinstein said. “Jasmine was very mindful of not putting (Henry Jemmott’s) family through a public trial.”īut Weinstein said Hartin’s primary objective now is to be reunited with her six-year-old twins, Charlie and Elle. “From her perspective, this has always been a tragic accident and now that has been accepted by all involved parties,” her Toronto lawyer Seth Weinstein told the And in the end, the cops, prosecution and judiciary seemed to agree. Cops eventually charged the pretty blond and they tagged on a cocaine possession beef (dropped because there was no cocaine).įrom the beginning, Hartin had pleaded with anyone who would listen that the shooting was an accident. While inspecting Jemmott’s service Glock handgun on the dock, the gun went off and a bullet hit the cop in the head, killing him instantly. They opened a resort together, and the girl from Eastern Ontario was living the luxe life. She met Andrew Ashcroft the same year and the two were engaged in 2016. Hartin moved to Belize in 2014 to work for her brother’s real estate firm. Her estranged common-law husband, Andrew Ashcroft, whisked their two kids out of the country to Turks and Caicos where his father also has powerful connections. That if there is no jail time - as expected - and Hartin gets her passport back, there will be an immediate effort to get her out of dangerous Belize and retrieve her two children. It is unlikely she will be jailed, but in Belize, nearly anything seems possible. She pleaded guilty on April 26 to manslaughter by negligence. At the time of the shooting, the socialite and cop were both defying a COVID. Hartin is expected to be sentenced on Wednesday in the death of San Pedro Island police chief Henry Jemmott, 42, and a father of five. But sources told 7 News Belize that the pretty blond only confessed to killing the cop last Friday when detectives. Small-town girl hooks up with the handsome son of billionaire Michael Ashcroft, a member of the House of Lords in London. The tale of Jasmine Hartin, 34, originally from Kingston, Ont., is one tailor-made for Hollywood. All sunny except for one lonely day of rain.Īnd in an ancient, white colonial-style courthouse, a Canadian woman will learn her fate in a case that has provided bombshell headlines around the globe. In fact, that’s the forecast for 13 of the next 14 days. "Next thing I know, the gun went off.In Belize City on Wednesday, the mercury is slated to hit a scorching 30C. "I'm holding it like this on the top and like this and I'm trying to get the magazine out," Hartin told Van Sant, demonstrating the way she says she'd held Jemmott's pistol. On the night of the shooting, said Hartin, she and Jemmott had been drinking before going to the pier, where she'd given him a shoulder massage and he'd tried teaching her how to load and unload the magazine and bullets from his Glock 17 service pistol. She said Henry Jemmott was her friend and had been urging her to get a gun for personal protection ever since rescuing her from a near sexual assault about a week earlier. "No … not at all," Hartin insisted.Īfter a jailhouse meeting with an attorney, Hartin reportedly admitted she had fired the fatal shot herself - by accident. "Were you intentionally trying to mislead police at that moment?" Van Sant pressed. Umm, you know, and I think I was in shock." "I don't remember saying that," said Hartin.
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