Tonight, Canadian Jasmine Hartin remains in custody at the CIB Office in Belize City. She's there for questioning about a hit she allegedly put out on family court magistrate Dale Cayetano and Commissioner of Police Chester Williams. We stress she is only there for questioning - but the man who linked her to a possible contract killing is her former boyfriend Lionel Neal.
After she had him detained for making threats to her, breaking into her home and performing lewd sexual acts in her bedroom without her approval - he was arrested and charged for burglary with intent to rape and threatening words.
But, after he was detained, he gave the police a whole other story that he has been her personal security turned live-in intimate partner for the better part of 7 months. He also claimed that while under the influence Hartin would make wild threats against prominent Belizean officials.
So, who's making stuff up, and who isn't and is anyone actually hiring a criminal gang to carry out a contract killing? Today, I caught up with Lionel "Piggy" Neal and asked him squarely what Jasmine Hartin did or didn't say about taking out a hit on anyone's life:
Cherisse Halsall:
"I've read your police report and the one thing I see as an allegation in the police report is that she'll get high on ****** and she'll shout, quote: " I wish all these ****** (BLEEP) would dead."
"Did you see Jasmine Hartin order a hit on either a magistrate or the commissioner of police? Is that not something you witnessed?"
Lionel "Piggy" Neal, Accused of burglary, rape, and threatening words
"First of all, when she gets drunk and on coke, she would curse up and, "I hate all the, I wish all these **M** (BLEEP) would dead...I want to kill them..." and afterwards she texts them, because I have the texts. about Chester, Noble, Cowo and there are several peoples."
Cherisse Halsall:
"But in terms of her contracting someone to commit murder, that isn't something you witnessed?"
Lionel "Piggy" Neal
"Well, the actual point is that she said she would want to do it but I see her intentions if she would have the money she would do it so she would reach out to several individuals in the street. I know she could do it."
Cherisse Halsall:
"Chester has said that the reason he is questioning Jasmine right now is that there was some talking and that talking is what starts whatever but you are saying that Jasmine was, if anything, shopping for a gunman but not actually committing to ordering a hit?"
Lionel "Piggy" Neal
"Actually, I don't know about ordering a hit, I don't know about ordering a hit but she brings up that she wants to kill him you know and with the magistrate and her husband, I mean her baby's dad even him and his friend."
And while he makes some serious claims about his ex, we stress that Jasmin Hartin in a voice note to me yesterday flatly refuted his allegations:
Jasmine Hartin, Wanted for Questioning
"It's the biggest made up story ever there are no grounds, no proof, nothing and I am not going into that police station without my lawyer present because this is an invented designed attack on me to paint me bad."
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