Jack Shepherd was given a six-year sentence for the manslaughter of Charlotte Brown
Speedboat killer Jack Shepherd has been returned to prison over a year after his release, following the death of 24-year-old Charlotte Brown on their first date. The web designer was released from his six-year prison sentence in January of the previous year, but is now back behind bars for breaching his licence conditions.
The prison service refrains from commenting on details of licence conditions breaches, but a spokesman stated: “As this case shows, we do not hesitate to send offenders back to prison if they break the rules.”
Ms Brown tragically lost her life in December 2015 when she was ejected from the boat as it capsized on the River Thames after colliding with a submerged tree trunk. She and Shepherd had been enjoying champagne before he took her on the doomed boat trip past the Palace of Westminster.
He was rescued from the Thames alive, but Ms Brown was discovered unconscious and unresponsive and later died in hospital. Shepherd, originally from Exeter, subsequently went on the run, and was convicted of manslaughter by gross negligence in his absence after an Old Bailey trial in 2018.
“He’s back where he belongs,” Ms Brown’s father, Graham Brown told the Sun. “He’s never shown remorse for his part in the death of my daughter.
“I think about her every day. The pain is never far away.
“I’ll never forgive him and still believe he poses a risk to females.”
Shepherd eventually turned himself in to the police in Tbilisi, Georgia in 2019, and was extradited back to the UK, where he also received a four-year prison sentence for assaulting a barman, to run concurrently with his six-year sentence.
He was found guilty of wounding with intent after striking ex-soldier David Beech with a vodka bottle when asked to leave The White Hart Hotel in Newton Abbot, Devon, in March 2018.
