Earlier this month, the Daily Mail - the most widely read paper in the UK - published an article saying that Jasmine Hartin claimed that Belizean police officers tried to stage a plot to kill her. According to her, they told her she was free to go, but she believes that they were planning to shoot her once she was out the door, and claim that she was trying to escape.
It sounds far-fetched, but it was printed in the UK media, and so yesterday we asked the ComPol about it.
Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police
"That's the most stupidest comment I have ever heard. How would the officers tell her that she's released to shoot her? If that were to happen, the officers certainly would not have a way out of that and they would be charged for murder. I don't foresee officers doing that and I read the article and she said that they were trying to let her out through the backdoor of the cell. The cellblock has no backdoor, you have one way in and one way out. So again, it goes to show that what she said is a bunch of nonsense, all in an effort to gain some support or traction in the international media domain and I don't think anybody in their right mind would believe what she has said."
Hartin says, indeed, there's no back door, but a side door.
