SPEEDBOAT KILLER JACK SHEPHERD RECALLED TO PRISON AFTER ASSAULT GUILTY PLEAS

Jack Shepherd, convicted of manslaughter in the 2018 death of Charlotte Brown, has pleaded guilty to assaulting his girlfriend. On Tuesday, the 38-year-old admitted two counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and damaging property over a prison video link from HMP Swaleside in Kent. The assaults occurred in February and June 2025 and led to his recall to prison. Prosecutors agreed to drop two further allegations of controlling or coercive behaviour and intentional suffocation.

According to a prosecution summary, Shepherd pinned down the woman and punched her multiple times in February 2025, causing bruising to her arm and leg. In June 2025, during an argument over a burnt pizza at a barbecue, he struck her with barbecue tongs on her left breast, causing a permanent scar. Shepherd was originally sentenced to 10 years for manslaughter after his speedboat crashed on a first date with Brown, who was 24. He was released on licence in January 2024 but was recalled to custody in September 2025 following accusations of violence towards his new partner.

Judge Martin Edmunds KC, the Recorder of Kensington and Chelsea, remanded Shepherd into custody pending sentencing in September. The judge ordered a probation report examining Shepherd's conduct during his release from prison in 2024 and the first half of 2025. Shepherd told the court his current release date from his original manslaughter sentence is January 2029.