Speedboat killer Jack Shepherd sentenced to another 20 months for attacking new girlfriend with burning hot barbecue tongs

Speedboat killer Jack Shepherd was given another 20 months today for attacking his latest girlfriend with burning hot barbecue tongs.

Appearing via video link from prison, the 39-year-old was told he was a danger to society – and in particular women.

Shepherd expressed remorse and promised to fix his drinking problem but Judge Martin Edmunds KC told him: ‘I place no faith or value in such expressions of responsibility and remorse’.

The self-styled Casanova became infamous after going on the run following the death of his 24-year-old date Charlotte Brown when he drunkenly flipped his speedboat.

Shameless Shepherd skipped bail in 2018 rather than face his Old Bailey manslaughter trial. He spent 10 months on the run in Georgia, until he was flushed out of his hideaway by the Daily Mail in January 2019.

Hauled back to London, the fugitive was given a 10-year sentence – six years for the speedboat manslaughter in London plus four years for viciously ‘glassing’ a barman in a Devon hotel who had refused him a drink.

A court artist sketch of Shepherd who pleaded guilty via video link to two counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and damaging property

He was freed on licence halfway through the 10 years, in January 2024. But instead of taking the chance to start fresh, he fell back into his old ways of abusing alcohol – and women.

Having moved into a shared house in Southall, west London, he became friendly with another tenant, a woman in her 50s. They played badminton together and, by August 2024, she had become his girlfriend. 

But in 2025, Shepherd began calling her an ‘old lady hag’ and a ‘rat’, and belittling her with jibes about her weight and age and accusing her of flirting with other men.

Then in February last year, Shepherd became angry when she threatened to speak to his probation officer about him. Pinning his girlfriend down, he punched her repeatedly, causing bruising to her arm and the top of her leg, Isleworth Crown Court heard.

In a second incident, in June 2025, Shepherd was cooking a barbecue for them, and she made a comment he had burnt a pizza, said prosecutor Katherine Lloyd. 

‘The defendant had some sharply-pointed barbecue tongs, and he turned and stabbed the tongs into the victim’s left breast,’ she said. It broke her skin and started bleeding, and she ran to the bathroom. Shepherd followed her, said it had only happened because he was drunk. She is left with a permanent scar.  

After she reported him to the police, shameless Shepherd tried to blame his victim. He was recalled to prison a year ago, in September. He pleaded guilty at a hearing this July and was sentenced today at Isleworth Crown Court in west London.

Charlotte Brown was killed when Shepherd took her on a high speed ride past the Houses of Parliament in his defective speedboat

Shepherd had previously been jailed for the manslaughter of Charlotte Brown, 24, who died when Shepherd’s speedboat crashed while they were on a date in 2015

When he went on the run in Georgia, Shepherd had tried to make a new life for himself in the former Soviet republic, but caused public outrage by launching an appeal against his manslaughter conviction from his sunshine hideaway. To add insult to injury, British taxpayers were funding his appeal via legal aid, despite him having dodged his trial.

With the backing of Miss Brown’s devastated family, the Daily Mail ran a campaign to hunt him down, and in January 2019 we succeeded in flushing out Shepherd who gave himself up in the capital Tbilisi as the net closed in.

Inside the converted property in Southall, west London, where Shepherd admitted he carried out two violent assaults on his new girlfriend

Shepherd, pictured in 2019 at a court in Georgia, admitted assaulting his new girlfriend

Extradited back to Britain in April 2019 and put before an Old Bailey judge, Shepherd was asked by a court clerk to admit he had breached bail and absconded from justice, and he replied: ‘Er, yes.’

He begged to be given credit for handing himself in to police in Georgia, but Judge Richard Marks said he had only given himself up because of the Daily Mail, telling him: ‘It was only a matter of time before the net closed in on you.’