10:52 EDT, 1 June 2021
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Canadian socialite Jasmine Hartin only confessed to accidentally shooting dead a prominent police officer in Belize after authorities told her she would be charged with cocaine possession, local news reports say.
Hartin, who is married to the son of British billionaire Lord Michael Ashcroft, is charged with manslaughter by negligence in the shooting death of 42-year-old Superintendent Henry Jemmott.
The 38-year-old was taken into custody last Friday after Jemmott was fatally shot behind the ear with his own revolver.
It comes as DailyMail.com revealed that Hartin, who was pictured in jail on Monday evening, could escape with just a fine.
The partner of the son of British billionaire Lord Michael Ashcroft has been arrested and charged in the shooting death of a police officer in Belize, local news outlets in Belize reported Monday.
Jasmine Hartin, the daughter-in-law of British billionaire Lord Michael Ashcroft, is set to be charged over the death of Belize Superintendent Henry Jemmott according to the slain cop s family.