Speedboat killer Jack Shepherd jailed again for 20 months for attacking woman

A man who was jailed for manslaughter over a woman's death in a speedboat crash has been sentenced to 20 months in prison for assaulting another woman.

Jack Shepherd, who pleaded guilty to three offences, including two counts of actual bodily harm and damaging property, was jailed at Isleworth Crown Court on Monday.

He admitted pinning the woman down and punching her, and hitting her in the chest with barbeque tongs in two incidents in 2025. He was sentenced to a further four years on extended licence.

Shepherd, 39, a web developer, had already been recalled to prison over the assaults.

He made headlines when he fled to Georgia over the death of Charlotte Brown, skipping his upcoming Old Bailey trial. The 24-year-old woman was killed when Shepherd's speedboat crashed on the Thames during a first date in 2015.

He was extradited and jailed for six years over the incident in 2018.

The following year, he was jailed for four years for attacking a barman with a vodka bottle in 2018 before being freed on licence two years ago.

Prosecutors in the latest case said the victim was a woman in her 50s.

In the first incident, in February 2025, the couple were arguing when he "pinned her down and punched her several times", prosecutor Katherine Lloyd told the court.

Four months later, the court heard he got angry at the woman for saying he had burned a pizza on the barbecue.

The defendant, who had been drinking wine and beer, "stabbed her with the barbecue tongs on her left breast, which caused a wound which bled," the prosecutor said.

The same month, Shepherd committed criminal damage when he followed her outside during an argument.

She went to get in her car and put her keys in the ignition, before Shepherd reached into her car window to grab the keys and broke them.

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Prosecutors agreed to drop allegations of controlling or coercive behaviour and intentional suffocation in exchange for Shepherd's guilty pleas.

Mitigating, George Payne said Shepherd, who attended by videolink from HMP Swaleside in Kent, was "genuinely very ashamed of his behaviour", which was driven by long-term alcohol abuse.

But Judge Martin Edmunds KC, the Recorder of Kensington and Chelsea, rejected that, saying "I place no faith or value in such expressions of acceptance or remorse from you".

He added: "Your pattern is to commit offences and afterwards apologise, and produce excuses."

Judge Edmunds remarked that Shepherd had "sought to shift blame anywhere but yourself".

The court heard Shepherd's latest release date on his existing sentence is 23 January 2029, and that he would serve his 20-month jail sentence concurrently to that.

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