The socialite accused of 'accidentally' shooting dead a top Belizean police officer faces a bitter custody battle over her two young children after her wealthy ex branded her a drunk and a drug addict in scathing court papers, DailyMail.com can reveal.
Andrew Ashcroft, the son of influential British billionaire Lord Michael Ashcroft, claims that Jasmine Hartin is unfit to care for twins Charlie and Ellie, four, because of her 'immoral habits' and her involvement in the accidental shooting death of Superintendent Henry Jemmott.
'The mother of the children hardly spends any time with the children. She is frequently more than not leaving the children in the care of others,' Ashcroft, 43, claims in a court summons obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com.
'Her main occupation is attending and socializing and she is addicted to non-prescribed and illegal drugs and is a habitual drunkard.
'The mother of the children is also presently charged with serious offences; causing death of a police officer by negligence, as well as assault of a person, while out on bail.'
Andrew Ashcroft, the son of influential British billionaire Lord Ashcroft, claims his ex Jasmine Hartin is unfit to care for twins Charlie and Ellie
Ashcroft, 43, claims in a scathing court summons obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com that Hartin 'hardly spends any time with the children'
Canadian national Hartin, 32, rejected the allegations today and said Ashcroft had blocked her from seeing her children without any court order or lawful authorization since June 11.
She said the summons was filed one day after she complained to Belizean and Canadian authorities that her ex-partner of seven years had allegedly taken their children out of Belize without her permission.
'When Andrew obviously caught wind that I was doing this, all of a sudden I get served with a custody paper and it's all bogus what he's accusing me of,' she told DailyMail.com.
'He says that I'm never around the kids but I've been trying to be around the kids and I have video evidence showing that he's been refusing me access to them.'
Hartin, 32, rejected the allegations and said Ashcroft has blocked her from seeing her children without any court order or lawful authorization since June 11
Hartin provided a copy of a recent medical report to DailyMail.com to prove that she was not on drugs.
The examination, carried on July 5, states that she tested negative for a variety of illegal substances, including cocaine, ecstasy, meth and marijuana.
'As soon as I take one step to get my kids back he attacks me and he's coming out with false allegations,' she said, explaining that the notoriety around Jemmott's death was making it hard for her to find a family lawyer willing to represent her.
'I'm playing an unfair game. They are able to do whatever they want while I'm tied up in red tape,' she added.
Prior to the shooting of Jemmott, 32, she and Ashcroft enjoyed a jet-set lifestyle operating a string of luxurious resorts in Ambergris Caye, a tropical island haven for rich ex-pats off the eastern coast of Belize.
That came to a shocking halt in the early hours of May 28 when Jemmott, a father-of-five tipped as a future leader of his country's police force, was struck behind his right ear by a 9mm round from his own Glock 17 service pistol.
According to a criminal complaint he had been 'socializing' and drinking alone with Hartin on a secluded hotel pier one block from the swank Alaia Belize hotel, which she operated with Ashcroft.
A security guard heard a 'loud bang' at 12:45am and police arrived to find Hartin 'covered in red substance as that of blood' and Jemmott floating dead on his back 30ft from the shore.
An expended shell casing was still lodged inside the gun which was found on the Mata Rocks hotel pier along with a
