SPEEDBOAT killer Jack Shepherd has been charged with attacking a new girlfriend after being released from prison.
New parole documents show the 38-year-old – previously jailed for the manslaughter of Charlotte Brown during a Thames joyride date – is now facing two counts of ABH, criminal damage, intentional suffocation and controlling and coercive behaviour.
Jack Shepherd ahead of an extradition hearing in Tbilisi in 2019 Credit: AFP or licensors
Charlotte Brown was thrown from Shepherd’s boat when it capsized on the River Thames during their first date in December 2015 Credit: PA:Press Association
Shepherd’s alleged victim, understood to be in her 50s, is referred to only as Ms X in the paperwork, made public today.
It says: “Mr Shepherd has recently been charged with offences of violence towards Ms X.”
Shepherd – a self-styled Casanova – crashed a boat he said he’s bought to “pull women”, killing date Charlotte, 24, in December 2015 before being caged for six years.
He’d initially gone on the run in the former Soviet country of Georgia, having skipped bail in 2018 shortly before his trial for manslaughter – though eventually handed himself in and was extradited back to the UK.
Shepherd was freed in January last year after serving half his sentence but hauled back behind bars for breaching the terms of his licence.
The details of the recall had not been made public until now.
It comes as Shepherd’s hopes of an early released were dashed in February after parole board chiefs rejected his latest bid for freedom.
Honour Nicholas Coleman – who has written the report on behalf of the Chair of the Parole Board for England and Wales, says any future parole hearings should now be heard in public.
Shepherd served six years in prison for manslaughter Credit: PA:Press Association
The speedboat Shepherd said he’d bought to ‘pull women’ Credit: PA:Press Association
He states after being released in January 2024, Shepherd changed his name by deed poll and resided at “Approved Premises” before being given permission to move into a room in a building in the same area in March 2024.
Mr Coleman wrote: “It was whilst living in these premises that he met Ms X a lady in her fifties, who was also living in one of the other rooms.”
He explains he had been given the opportunity to read a police report detailing the relationship, which began in August 2024.
However, Ms X was then provided Shepherd’s relationship history from the police via Claire’s Law.
Mr Coleman writes: “Nevertheless, the relationship continued.”
He goes on to say, the police report towards the end of 2024 the relationship allegedly “became violent and coercive on the part of Mr Shepherd”.
Ms X then complained to police in August last year and Shepherd was arrested on suspicion of controlling, coercive and violent behaviour.
The report adds: “Several incidents of violence in February, June and July 2025 are detailed in the lengthy statement Ms X made to the police.
“Mr Shepherd was interviewed and in a prepared statement he denied the allegations.
“Mr Shepherd was released on bail. However, on the 13 September 2025 his licence was revoked, and he was recalled to custody.”
Mr Coleman says the police report claims Shepherd then wrote to Ms X, in breach of his bail conditions, and also missed his 11pm curfew.
Shepherd’s latest parole hearing will now be heard in public, at a date to be announced.
Ms X may give evidence at it.
Referring to the new charges, the report adds: “I have been awaiting the outcome of the charging process before deciding whether the pending oral hearing should be held in public.”
It adds: “The Panel may decide that the investigation of unproven allegations may not be held in the public part of the hearing.
“If it is then all steps can be taken to ensure that Ms X is not identified.”
Mr Coleman clarifies that the panel “cannot conclude that a criminal offence has been committed” but rather is only entitled to “make findings of fact on the evidence relating to a person’s conduct”.
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