Speedboat killer took my beautiful daughter’s life – he’s always been a danger to women & should never have been freed

A GRIEVING father whose daughter’s life was taken by Jack Shepherd has said the speedboat killer is a “danger to women” who should never have been freed.

Shepherd was previously jailed for killing Charlotte Brown, 24, who was thrown from his boat on the River Thames in December 2015.

Shepherd was jailed for six years in April 2019, for manslaughter by gross negligence.

But the following year, he had almost three months slashed from his sentence.

Shepherd was this month put behind bars again after he pinned down and beat his new girlfriend with BBQ tongs in a sickening campaign of abuse.

The vile 39-year-old had attacked the vulnerable woman twice only a year after he was released from prison.

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“I’ve always said and believed that Jack Shepherd is a threat and a danger to women, and sadly I’ve been proved right.”

“My heart and best wishes go to the latest victim. It brings no satisfaction to me to hear this.

“Somebody had to suffer and become a victim for him to go back into prison.”

Shepherd was jailed yesterday for 20 months with a further four years on extended licence after he admitted the two counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and damaging property.

Judge Martin Edmunds previously said he could not add more time to Shepherd’s sentence, which will see him released in January 2029.

Graham, who believes Shepherd’s sentence is too lenient, said: “When you have lost your daughter, somebody going to prison for ten years but actually only being in prison for five years does not feel like justice.”

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Emotional abuse – Including being belittled, blamed for the abuse – gaslighting – being isolated from family and friends, having no control over your finances, what you where and who you speak to
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“You can drive a coach and horses through licence conditions.”

“It’s very difficult, almost impossible, for the probation service to manage people on licence.

“Please remember my daughter, because she was very special—a beautiful woman and a beautiful soul. She is still loved and sadly missed.”

On the night Charlotte died, Shepherd tried to impress her with a late-night trip past the Houses of Parliament after a £150 dinner at the Shard.

They had ordered two bottles of wine and Shepard had been drinking heavily before the tragedy, while English literature graduate Charlotte barely touched a drop on their first date.

Harrowing mobile phone footage showed him racing down the Thames at double the speed limit in his faulty speedboat moments before it hit a log and flipped over.

Charlotte, who died shortly after hitting the river from cold water immersion, could be heard screaming: “Oh my God, you’re going so fast”.

Shockingly, Shepherd fled the UK before he could face justice in person and spent ten months on the run.

It was while he was hiding in Georgia that the chilling truth behind the champagne Casanova began to emerge.

Police discovered Shepherd had bought the boat from Gumtree to “pull” and had taken ten other women for rides before the fatal crash.

Timeline of the speedboat killer

December 2015

Charlotte Brown is killed on her first date with Jack Shepherd after she is thrown from a speed boat when it capsized in the River Thames.

2018

Shepherd flees to Georgia and is convicted of manslaughter by gross negligence at the Old Bailey in his absence.

2019

The killer hands himself to police in Tbilisi and is extradited to the UK where he is jailed for six years for Charlotte’s death.

January 2024

Shepherd is released from prison on licence.

August 2024

He meets Ms X online and they begin a relationship but Shepard becomes violent and coercive towards her.

February 2025

Shepherd attacks the woman by pinning her down and punching her “several times causing bruising to her arm and top of leg”.

June 2025

He attacks Ms X again after she burnt a pizza and strikes her in the chest with barbecue tongs leaving a permanent scar.

August 2025

Shepherd is arrested and recalled to custody a month later after his licence was revoked.

July 2026

Shepherd admits two counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and damaging property.

September 2026

He is sentenced to 20 months with a further four years on extended licence.

Shepherd, who got married and had a child after the crash, eventually handed himself into local authorities in Georgia and even tried protesting his innocence in front of TV cameras.

Smirking as he surrendered, he insisted it was a “tragic accident”.