Henry Jemmott, he's the superintendent of police whose death was set to result in the trial of the young decade.
But as we know by now, the woman who killed Jemmott, 33-year-old Jasmine Hartin has pleaded guilty to manslaughter by negligence and now awaits what is expected to be a non-custodial sentence.
That sentence is expected to be handed down tomorrow May 31st, 2023, but what effect will it have on the people who have been most profoundly affected by Henry Jemmott's death - his family and more specifically his children?
That's what Cherisse Halsall delved into in a weekend interview with his eldest daughter. Here's more:
On Saturday 7News sat down for an interview with 18-year-old Maya Jemmott, the eldest daughter of the deceased superintendent of police Henry Jemmott.
Now, we've heard Henry Jemmott's sisters before but tonight for the first time we're speaking to his only adult daughter. She told us why she's speaking out now.
Maya Jemmott, Henry Jemmott's Eldest Daughter
"We were all advised to not do any interviews, I just, my personal thing on it is no one has ever heard me, as you said you have spoken to my aunts in the past but you have never spoken to me and no one has ever heard what and how, what I am feeling and how it really affected me and while you won't be able to hear from my siblings and I cannot speak for them because we are all feeling what we feel and I can't really tell you how they are feeling I feel like it is important for me to be heard."
We began by asking Maya for her experience of that May 28th exactly two years ago.
Maya Jemmott, Henry Jemmott's Eldest Daughter
"I was at home and at that time my home wasn't where I am now it was in the King's Park area and before he had, before I even found out the news it was like a feeling of dred like I would receive some kind of news that would shake me, and I was in bed and from the time he passed away I could more than likely before even knowing the time I could have said something was happening at that time because my mother's phone just started to ring and I could hear it from my room it was just ringing off the hook and when she picked it up I could hear her speaking into it but she was being as hushed as she could because she knew that the night before I was up until I would say 1:00 and she was trying for me not to hear and around 5:00 is when I decided to come out of my room and I remember I was going to get water and she called me into her room and she was like I need you to sit down because I need to tell you this so she didn't give me the entire story, she told me that my dad was working and he was injured and he died."
"At that moment I just started to bawl is the best thing I could say and it was like I did it for like 10 seconds and then I stopped like in the back of my mind I am like maybe it's a mistake you know all the thoughts just start running through your head like maybe it's a mistake, maybe it's not him maybe it's just like, and my mother was like with everything going on I don't want you to go on any social media or anything, worst thing she could ever tell me because I went as soon as I got in the room I saw what actually happened, right and throughout all of this her phone is still ringing people are still calling her to like inform her to see if she knows and ask if it's true because I feel like I am not the only person that when they got the news they were like, it can't be."
"The first post I saw because I was on Facebook, the first post I saw was his picture along with Ms. Hartin's picture saying that she shot him and then there was like a whole portion where they said she was sunder the influence of substance, there was just a lot and as I scrolled down it was just a lot and then the comments were not something that anyone wants to see."
And with her father's death now at the centre of a national soon-to-be international scandal, Maya says she had to shake off the surreal aspects of that night and find out for herself if any of it was actually real.
Maya Jemmott, Henry Jemmott's Eldest Daughter
"7:00Am I was already at the morgue waiting and my mother had to come and get me from there because she was like the body hasn't reached yet so you just can't be here. It didn't arrive in until I think 2 or 3."
"To solidify the fact that he was actually gone because I, I just I could not believe it and until I saw that body bag being just taken into that morgue and all of my family just there, my cousins, are crying, my aunt is just, at that moment I guess she was trying to hold it together but still."
"Everyone is distraught and then it settles that this is a reality and of all the ways to lose my father, this."
And all this time later what does Maya Jemmott think of the woman who has admitted to taking her father's life?
Maya Jemmott, Henry Jemmott's Eldest Daughter
"I'm not really a hateful person and I don't hate her, I don't honestly if I am to be completely honest I do not hate her, I just I don't ever feel like I will be able to forgive her because she took a vital part of my life, she took my dad away from me and there are moments in my life that whether we were talking whether we were just fighting I wanted him to experience it."
Cherisse Halsall:
"Like your graduation?"
Maya Jemmott, Henry Jemmott's Eldest Daughter
"Like yesterday when after years of what I would say is pain and suffering I got a paper that said that I can graduate and I had a write up, we had write ups everyone was writing on me and I wanted him to see that, at that moment the sadness just kind of settled in because he was, year's ago, one of those people that I was planning to call. I have every single number I know I can reach him on memorized so that I can call him in times of distress if I ever need him and for a moment like this and I couldn't and it was frustrating. It was very frustrating."
