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· collected 2026-09-14 · by Sam Greenhill, Inderdeep Bains
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Speedboat killer Jack Shepherd has been jailed for another 20 months for attacking his girlfriend with burning hot barbecue tongs.
Appearing via video link from prison, the 39-year-old was told he was a danger to society – particularly to women.
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he → see → women
Shepherd 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.'
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I → promise → responsibility
A nasty drunk, Shepherd stabbed his girlfriend in the breast with 'sharply-pointed' tongs after she had told him he was burning their barbecue pizza.
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he → stab → pizza
The self-styled Casanova became infamous after fleeing the country following the death of 24-year-old Charlotte Brown when he drunkenly flipped his speedboat on their first date.
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he → style → date
He skipped bail in 2018 rather than facing his Old Bailey manslaughter trial and spent ten months on the run in Georgia, until he was flushed out of his eastern European hideaway by the Daily Mail in January 2019.
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he → skip → January
Hauled back to London, he was given a ten-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.
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who → haul → drink
Neighbours of speedboat killer Jack Shepherd, pictured in 2019, have revealed how they were forced to listen to his new girlfriend's 'disturbing' screams as he terrorised her
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 in January 2024 but continued to abuse alcohol and women.
Moving into a shared house in Southall, west London, he became friendly with another tenant, a woman in her fifties.
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he → picture → fifties
They played badminton together and, by August 2024, she had become his girlfriend.
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she → play → August
Then in February last year, Shepherd became angry when she threatened to speak to his probation officer about him.
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she → become → him
Pinning his girlfriend down, he punched her repeatedly, causing bruising to her arm and the top of her leg, his sentencing hearing at Isleworth Crown Court, west London, heard today.
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hearing → pin → Court
In a second incident, in June 2025, Shepherd had drunk beer and wine and was cooking a barbecue for them, and she made a comment that he had burnt a pizza, said prosecutor Katherine Lloyd.
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Lloyd → drink → pizza
She added: 'The defendant had some sharply-pointed barbecue tongs, and he turned and stabbed the tongs into the victim's left breast which caused a wound which bled.
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which → add → wound
The woman ran to the bathroom and Shepherd followed her, saying it had only happened because he was drunk.
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he → run → her
She is left with a permanent scar.
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She → leave → scar
The same month, Shepherd committed criminal damage when he followed his partner outside during an argument.
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he → commit → 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, 'depriving her of escape', said the judge.
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judge → go → escape
After his victim reported him to the police, in August 2025, shameless Shepherd tried to blame her, taking a pre-prepared statement to his police interview in which he accused her of being 'unstable, delusional and violent herself'.
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he → report → her
He then refused to answer any police questions.
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He → refuse → questions
He was recalled to prison a year ago, in September, and pleaded guilty at a hearing this July.
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He → recall → hearing
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 Ms Brown, 24, who died when his speedboat crashed while they were on a date in 2015
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Shepherd followed proceedings from a room at category B prison HMP Swaleside in Kent.
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Shepherd → follow → Kent
He spoke clearly to confirm his name and date of birth, and put his hand up to say he wanted to 'correct' a claim made by the prosecutor that he had been driving the speedboat.
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he → speak → speedboat
The judge, who is the Recorder of Kensington and Chelsea, dismissed the point, saying Shepherd had been drunk in charge of the speedboat.
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Shepherd → dismiss → speedboat
He applied the 'dangerousness test' to sentencing him, which allowed him to extend the period of licence for Shepherd even after his jail sentence ends in 2029.
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sentence → apply → 2029
The judge said: 'It is patent from the commission of these offences on licence and from your prior history that you pose a significant risk of causing serious harm to members of the public by the commission of further specified offences.
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you → say → offences
The threat you pose is particularly to any new girlfriend and will be aggravated if you cannot control your drinking – and your track record so far is that you cannot.'
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you → pose → drinking
He sentenced Shepherd to nine months for the attack with his fists, 20 months for the barbecue tongs assault and three months for the car keys damage.
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He → sentence → damage
All three sentences will run concurrently – rather than consecutively – with each other and with his other terms behind bars.
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sentences → run → bars
Since he is in jail until January 2029 anyway, this means he will not serve a single extra day for the latest attacks.
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The judge said his hands were tied and told Shepherd that because the new offences occurred while he was out on licence, 'Parliament has laid down that any sentence I pass today must commence today and cannot, as a matter of law, be made consecutive'.
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Shepherd will serve today's sentence of 20 months alongside his sentence for killing Ms Brown and glassing the barman.
But the judge imposed an extra four years on his licence period.
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judge → serve → period
This means that, once he is freed in January 2029, he will remain 'on licence' for a further three years and four months, or May 2032, because the judge decided he was dangerous.
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The judge said Shepherd had 'told her your own version of your past, one which she initially accepted', but after he complied with his obligation to tell probation of any new relationship, it was 'the police who therefore informed her of your history'.
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who → say → history
He said: 'Within a few short months you became jealous and violent, both to [her] in person and to property as a means of intimidating her.'
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you → say → her
Prosecutors have agreed to drop two other allegations – of controlling or coercive behaviour and intentional suffocation.
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Prosecutors → agree → behaviour
The woman had claimed Shepherd had menacingly mentioned a violent former cellmate and told her it would be her 'last day' if she said anything bad to his probation officer.
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she → claim → officer
Those allegations will now be left to 'lie on file'.
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allegations → leave → file
The judge said the admitted offences had been 'seriously aggravated by your previous convictions'.
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offences → say → convictions
He told Shepherd: 'Whatever the difficulties in your relationship, the three counts are snapshots of inexcusable violence.
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counts → tell → violence
Two of the offences were clearly committed when you were drunk, just as you had been when you committed that manslaughter in 2015 or when you hit that bar worker with a bottle in 2018.
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you → commit → 2018
…and 20 more, not listed.
