The Canadian socialite and former partner of the son of billionaire and Conservative party grandee Lord Michael Ashcroft has pleaded guilty in a court in Belize to the negligent manslaughter of a police officer.
Jasmine Hartin, 34, who shot and killed police superintendent Henry Jemmott in May 2021 in what she has described as an accidental discharge from Jemmott’s firearm, entered a tearful plea at the nation’s supreme court in Belize City on Tuesday afternoon before the start of a scheduled trial.
