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.

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’.

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.

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

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 eastern European hideaway by the Daily Mail in January 2019.

Hauled back to London, he 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.

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 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’, 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 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. 

‘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.’

She ran to the bathroom and Shepherd followed her, saying it had only happened because he was drunk. She is left with a permanent scar.

The same month, Shepherd committed criminal damage when he followed his partner 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.

After she 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’. He then refused to answer any police questions.

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

Shepherd followed proceedings from a room at category B prison HMP Swaleside in 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.

The judge, who is the Recorder of Kensington and Chelsea, dismissed the point, saying Shepherd had been drunk in charge of the speedboat.

He applied the ‘dangerousness test’ to sentencing Shepherd, which allowed him to extend the period of licence for Shepherd even after his jail sentence ends in 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. 

‘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.’

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. All three sentences will run concurrently – rather than consecutively – with each other and with his other terms behind bars.

Since he is in jail until January 2029 anyway, this means he will not serve a single extra day for the latest attacks. The judge said his hands were tied. He 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’. 

In other words, he will serve today’s sentence of 20 months alongside his sentence for killing Miss Brown and glassing the barman.

But the judge imposed an extra four years on his licence 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.

The judge said the offences had been ‘seriously aggravated by your previous convictions’. 

He told Shepherd: ‘Whatever the difficulties in your relationship, the three counts are snapshots of inexcusable 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.

‘[The victim’s] assessment was that when you get drunk, you want to hit someone to show off your power. There is likewise a pattern of you trying to apologise afterwards and blaming drink.’

The woman has written an ‘impact statement’ which ‘describes the pain and injuries inflicted, with permanent scarring, and also explains the effects of stress and anxiety on her, her loss of self-confidence, friendships and feelings of safety,’ said the judge. ‘These have been aggravated by your notoriety. The offences are each aggravated by your previous convictions which I judge to be highly relevant.’  

The court also revealed a previously unknown conviction, from 2010, when Shepherd had driven a motor vehicle whilst drunk. Although this was a long time ago, and a ‘spent’ conviction, the judge said it was relevant because of his abuse of alcohol.

The judge said: ‘You have expressed acceptance of responsibility and remorse but I place no faith or value in such expressions of acceptance or remorse from you. Your pattern is to commit offences and afterwards apologise, and produce excuses… to shift blame anywhere but yourself.’

George Payne, defending Shepherd, said his client was ‘genuinely very ashamed of his behaviour’, adding: ‘The behaviour is driven by his abuse of alcohol and is a feature that has existed for a long time.

‘He’s learned a very clear lesson: the only way he is able to function is complete abstinence from alcohol. That’s been driven home over the last year.

‘He extends his sympathy to all those affected. He knows his notoriety causes anguish for the victim.’

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.’