“I am definitely not a murderer. And I set up. I am. I really am. “It’s such a small country, everyone is afraid of Ashcroft here,” Jasmine Hartin told TalkTV’s Piers Morgan. “They own the bank, they own the newspapers, they own the economy of this country.” Hartin was charged last summer with the fatal shooting of Belize Police Chief Henry Jemot, who was found dead in the water outside a dock overnight last May. He had a bullet wound to the back of his ear, according to police, who also said the murder weapon was Jamot’s service pistol. The mother of two was found by the authorities at the same pier, splashed with blood, a spokesman said at the time. Accused of negligent homicide in Jamot’s death in June 2021. After being imprisoned and later released from a Belize facility notorious for its harsh conditions, Hartin was jailed again last month on suspicion of hiring killers for to assassinate a Belize police commissioner and a local judge. Excerpts from Hartin’s last interview, which was scheduled to air Sunday night, were reported earlier Sunday by The Sun. He did not deny that he shot Jamot, but said the incident was nothing more than a “tragic accident”. “I do not remember ever touching this trigger on the gun, so I do not know what happened, to be honest,” he told Morgan. “I was trying to remove the clip and it just went out – I do not remember ever touching the trigger. “So I’m not sure if it was a defective weapon or not.” Hartin, 33, said Jamot, a friend he was dating and drinking with that night, had given her his service pistol because “he thought it was important for me to get a gun license, because he thought I needed protection. ” The socialist insisted that he was trying to remove the clip of the gun when the gun fell accidentally. “Henry fell on me. “I saw blood and I felt blood,” he recalls. “It simply came to our notice then. He started slipping in the water. I tried to catch him. He was much older than me, so I could not hold him high. “ After his death, Cemot’s family pressured Hartin to be charged with murder. “My brother was shot in the back of the ear… style of execution,” Cherry’s sister told CBS News. Speaking to Morgan, Hartin also referred to the “many different stories” about the details of the incident that have multiplied in recent months. “I have heard that I was executed, that it was an attempted rape and that I was defending myself. I heard I dragged him there and it was Andrew [Ashcroft, Hartin’s estranged husband] “who shot him,” he said. “The truth of the matter is none of this. “He was my friend,” Hartin added. “It simply came to our notice then. “I considered Henry a protector.” She also disputed previous media reports portraying her as a drug addict, linking them to Andrew’s ongoing custody battle over their 5-year-old twins. “Obviously, it would benefit her detention case, it would benefit in many ways if I was considered to be this wild girl addicted to cocaine,” Hartin said. “It just is not true.”
