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Socialite's bizarre defence after police chief's fatal shooting
Yahoo News ^ | 6/1/2021 | Staff

Posted on 06/04/2021 2:41:51 PM PDT by simpson96

A socialite charged over death of a high-ranking police officer reportedly "accidentally shot him while giving him a massage".

Jasmine Hartin Ashcroft, the daughter-in-law of British billionaire Lord Ashcroft, was charged with manslaughter by negligence after Superintendent Henry Jemmott was found dead with a gunshot wound to the head in Belize early on Thursday morning (local time).

When police arrived they found an “emotional” Ms Ashcroft with “what appeared to be blood on her arms and on her clothing,” Commissioner of Police Chester Williams told Channel 5 Belize.

Supt Jemmott was found floating in the water next to the pier with a gunshot wound behind his right ear.

Ms Ashcroft was charged after police took her in for questioning over the incident in San Pedro.

According to 7 News Belize, reliable sources claim Ms Ashcroft was giving the Superintendent a massage on the pier when he reportedly asked the socialite to hand him his gun.

The news station reports the gun then accidentally fired into the back of the police officer's head and Ms Ashcroft allegedly pushed him off the pier in an attempt to get out from under his lifeless body.

The gun was found nearby.

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To: Az Joe
I remember the "Claudine Longet Invitational Ski Tournament" sketch from SNL.

LOL, you could always tell which skits were written by Michael O'Donoghue.

21 posted on 06/04/2021 3:22:19 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: newfreep

Claudine Longet. Andy Williams’ wife and Spider Sabich’s girlfriend. And killer.


22 posted on 06/04/2021 3:25:21 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Duchess47

As the wise Inspector Clouseau once said, “something is fishy in Denmark”. Or was it Belize?


23 posted on 06/04/2021 3:26:50 PM PDT by certrtwngnut (4- Do something,,,,even if it's wrong.)
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To: Steely Tom

Yep.

I was around during those daze...and she was so “not guilty”.


24 posted on 06/04/2021 3:32:47 PM PDT by newfreep (“Leftism, under all of its brand names, is a severe, violent & evil mental disorder.”)
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Was it Belize where McAfee had some issues?


25 posted on 06/04/2021 3:35:41 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: simpson96

Nothing about this story makes any sense. But she’s probably too connected to go to prison for killing the cop under the circumstances. She’ll probably be sent back to UK for a probationary period and told not to leave the bounds of the EU.


26 posted on 06/04/2021 3:54:48 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: DesertRhino

The guy was supposed to say “I didn’t know it was loaded” and I’m not referring to the gun.


27 posted on 06/04/2021 4:00:48 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: lee martell

28 posted on 06/04/2021 4:09:52 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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To: familyop

“One possibility: the massage was coerced. The weapon was laying nearby, so she shot him for the purpose of avoiding rape and/or being murdered.”

That’s a possibility but it won’t satisfy the self righteous here on FR.


29 posted on 06/04/2021 4:09:57 PM PDT by dljordan (Slouching towards Woketopia)
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To: newfreep

She’s still married to her defense atty from the trial. Livin in Aspen.

Must be nice


30 posted on 06/04/2021 4:18:07 PM PDT by Az Joe (FREE CHAUVIN!)
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To: newfreep
I was around during those daze...and she was so “not guilty”.

Yeah, me too. She was in a Peter Sellers movie called The Party. She was really fetching. Second quadrant of the HCM (Hot-Crazy Matrix), above the diagonal line. I was in college when played "I Shot The Boyfriend."

31 posted on 06/04/2021 4:49:21 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Duchess47

Smelt like fish...they were on a pier.


32 posted on 06/04/2021 6:20:25 PM PDT by Hypo2
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