Speedboat killer Jack Shepherd pleads guilty to scarring his new girlfriend with BBQ tongs

By CAMERON CHARTERS and CHIARA BURRELL Published: 14:46, 28 July 2026 | Updated: 14:55, 28 July 2026 Speedboat killer Jack Shepherd today pleaded guilty to attacking his girlfriend with BBQ tongs.  The 38-year-old pleaded guilty over a prison video link on Tuesday to two counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and damaging property.  Prosecutors said Shepherd burnt the breast of the woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, with BBQ tongs in June 2025 after punching her arms and thigh that February.  Shepherd was originally jailed for 10 years for manslaughter in 2018 over the death of 24-year-old Charlotte Brown when his speedboat crashed during a first date. Shepherd skipped his Old Bailey trial while on the run in Georgia, before he was eventually extradited back to the UK to serve his sentence. He was set free on licence in January 2024, but faced recall to prison in September last year after he was accused of violence towards a woman. Katherine Lloyd for the prosecution said Shepherd threatened his girlfriend telling her his friend called T 'was in prison for burning his grandmother alive'. Shepherd began dating the woman in her 50s in August 2024, after he was automatically released from prison on licence that January. The pair met after Shepherd moved to Ealing, West London where he started renting a room in the same block of flats as his girlfriend. Four months into their relationship Shepherd began to call her an 'old lady hag' and a 'rat' prosecutors said. Speedboat killer Jack Shepherd has admitted assaulting his new girlfriend Charlotte Brown (pictured), 24, was thrown from Shepherd's boat when it capsized on the River Thames in December 2015 He also banned her from having a personal trainer at her gym, and would turn off the television if a good looking actor came on screen, it is claimed.  Miss Lloyd said: ' bend her fingers back and throw away her food  Shepherd appeared at Isleworth Crown Court on video link from to admit two counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, criminal damage and intentional suffocation.  All of the offences relate to late 2024 to August 2025. Shepherd was previously jailed after he and Miss Brown, 24, went on a first date on his speedboat capsized on the River Thames. The pair met on the online dating app called Tinder and at Shepherd's suggestion took his boat out on the river 8 December 2015. Dubbing himself 'Captain Jack' Shepherd, he used the defective boat to ‘pull girls’ as he drunkenly raced about in it. Charlotte Brown was killed when Shepherd took her on a ride past the Houses of Parliament  When he flipped the 14ft craft after hitting a submerged log, Ms Brown was thrown into the icy waters in darkness. He was rescued but his passenger drowned. Shepherd went on the run to Georgia and was eventually tried in absence in July 2018 – when he was sentenced to six years in prison. The Daily Mail launched an investigation to find him and successfully did so in January 2019. He was extradited back to Britain from Georgia in April of that year. Months later, Shepherd was given a further four years for a vicious 'glassing' attack on a barman at a Devon hotel while he was on police bail over the death of Miss Brown. Sorry we are not currently accepting comments on this article.