Jasmine Suzanne Hartin is a Canadian socialite living in Belize. Here are 13 more things about her:
- She lives on Sea Grape Drive in San Pedro, Belize. (a)
- She is referred to as the wife of Andrew Ashcroft, the youngest son of billionaire Lord Michael Ashcroft. However, it is unclear if she and Andrew are legally married or a common law couple. Lord Michael is Belize’s former ambassador to the United Nations. (a) (b)
- She has two children. (b)
- She and Andrew head a luxury hotel company in Belize. (a)
- From September 2015 to 2017, she worked as a real estate associate at SANCAS Realty Lt.d – Christie’s International Real Estate. (c)
- In 2016, she joined Alaia Belize Autograph Hotel Collection as the director of lifestyle and experience. (c)
- She was friends with Belizean cop Henry Jemmott, who died at the age of 42. (d)
- On May 28, 2021, she and Jemmott were alone on a pier in San Pedro drinking. She then played a pistol game with him. His lifeless body with a gunshot wound behind the right ear was later found floating in the sea near the pier. The police officers who responded to the pier found a firearm that belonged to him. A security guard found her hysterical with blood on her arms and on her clothing. (a) (b) (d) (e)
- On May 29, 2021, she was arrested. She claimed that on May 28, 2021, she picked up Jemmott’s gun to pass it back to him but it fired accidentally. (b) (e)
- She was 32 years old when she was arrested on May 29, 2021. (a)
- On May 30, 2021, her lawyer Godfrey Smith visited her in jail. Smith is Belize’s former attorney general. (f)
- On May 31, 2021, she was charged for manslaughter by negligence over the shooting death of Jemmott. She was arraigned on the same day. (a)
- She was denied bail, Smith revealed on May 31, 2021. (b)
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