The tiny Caribbean nation of Belize is making worldwide headlines today. This, because local authorities arrested the daughter-in-law of a notorious British lord for allegedly murdering a local man she was “socializing” with on a pier around midnight on Thursday.
Except that, as one might expect given this lady’s status in life, this was no ordinary local. In fact, he was no less a person than the very popular Superintendent Henry Jemmott.
Local station 7 News Belize ran the breaking news in part as follows last night:
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He was one of the best known cops in Belize, but tonight 42-year-old Superintendent of Police Henry Jemmott is dead. He was fatally shot with his own gun last night on a San Pedro pier; and the news at this hour is that – according to the family – a post mortem has confirmed the headshot was the result of a homicide – not an accident, not a suicide.
The only suspect remains in custody at his hour at the San Pedro police station: she is Jasmine Hartin, the common law wife of Andrew Ashcroft and the daughter-in-law of lord Micheal Ashcroft.
Reports tonight are that Hartin was found on that pier splattered in the officer’s blood and that she suggested to first responders that the bullet might have come from a passing boat.
Indeed, it’s a mystery for which the intrigue is escalating tonight. …
She is still not volunteering any information to the police. Reliable reports say she is suggesting that the shot which hit Jemmoth behind the ear may have been fired from a passing boat.
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Frankly, this smacks of Jasmine trying to get her groove back, but ending up a sugar mammy whose white mischief has now triggered this neo-colonial tragedy.
But her billionaire father-in-law practically owns Belize. So I suspect her fate really depends on how cuckolded her (common-law) husband feels.
After all, the reason she was out socializing with Jemmott at that hour might be because they have an arrangement that frees her (and him) to swing and swirl that way. In which case, he might not feel as betrayed by the infidelity this apparent assignation implies as one might expect.
In any event, if Lord Ashcroft wants her to get away with murder, even if it takes a show trial – his will be done.
Sorry, Jemmott. But I hope, whatever the nature of your relationship with this woman, that you derived at least some modicum of pleasure while it lasted. RIP.
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