CANADIAN socialite Jasmine Hartin has arrived at a Belizean courthouse as she's expected to stand trial for allegedly shooting a police officer dead in 2021.
Hartin, 33, was pictured with her head stooped down as she arrived at the Belize City Supreme Court on Tuesday.
The blonde socialite is accused of shooting dead her pal, chief of police superintendent Henry Jemmott in San Pedro, Belize, in May 2021.
During Tuesday's hearing, prosecutors requested that Hartin enter a plea today and presented a file with additional evidence that would be shown if the trial goes ahead.
Judge Ricardo Sandcroft adjourned the hearing to 5pm to give Hartin time to discuss what she wants to do with her lawyers.
If she pleads not guilty, the case will go to trial.
At the time of the shooting, Belizean police officers rushed to the sound of gunfire, where they found Hartin drenched in blood near the beachfront home she shared with her partner Andrew.
In the waters nearby, authorities found Jemmott’s lifeless body floating in the water near San Pedro with a single gunshot wound to the head.
Hartin told authorities that she was giving the superintendent a should massage when he asked her to hand him his pistol, 7 News Belize reported at the time.
She then alleged that the Glock service pistol accidentally went off and shot him in the back of the head, the outlet reported.
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Hartin claims Jemmott then fell on him, and she pushed him off, leading to his lifeless body falling from the pier to the water.
Authorities charged Hartin with manslaughter by negligence charges.
In the aftermath of the shooting, rumors about Hartin and Jemmott ramped up.
However, Jemmott's sister, Marie Jemmott Tzul, told the DailyMail that her brother knew Hartin but that there was no romantic relationship between the two.
Instead, Jemmott Tzul told the outlet that her brother was shot while "drinking with Lord Ashcroft's daughter-in-law (and) had a head wound like an assassination."
Hartin broke her silence over a year after the incident in an interview with CBS' 48 Hours in July 2022.
"It was such a blur. Umm, you know, and I think I was in shock," the mother-of-two told Sant.
On the night of the shooting, Hartin said she and Jemmott had been drinking before going to the pier, where she'd given him a shoulder massage.
She said he tried teaching her how to load and unload the magazine and bullets from his Glock 17 service pistol.
"I'm holding it like this on the top and like this, and I'm trying to get the magazine out," Hartin told the outlet, demonstrating the way she says she'd held Jemmott's pistol.
"Next thing I know, the gun went off."
When asked if she had her finger around the trigger, Hartin replied: "Not that I thought.
"I'd — I'm—I don't know. I — I — I mean, it was an accident , or the gun misfired. But consciously, did I pull the trigger? No." she added.
“There’s not a day that goes by that I don’t think about Henry, he was my friend, he was a protector," Hartin previously told the Mail.
Hartin was previously in a common-law marriage with British-Belizean billionaire Lord Ashcroft's son Andrew, but they have since separated.
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