Jack Shepherd, previously convicted of manslaughter, received a 20-month prison sentence Monday for assaulting a woman and damaging property. Isleworth Crown Court imposed the sentence for three offenses: two counts of actual bodily harm and one count of criminal damage.
Shepherd, 39, pleaded guilty to the charges. The court also handed him an additional four years on extended license following his release.
The assaults occurred in 2025. In February, Shepherd pinned the woman down and punched her multiple times during an argument, prosecutor Katherine Lloyd told the court. In June, he attacked her with barbecue tongs, stabbing her in the left breast and causing a bleeding wound after she noted he had burned a pizza on the barbecue. He had been drinking wine and beer at the time. That same month, Shepherd committed criminal damage by breaking the woman's car keys after reaching through her car window during an argument.
The victim was a woman in her 50s. Prosecutors agreed to drop allegations of controlling or coercive behavior and intentional suffocation in exchange for Shepherd's guilty pleas.
Defense lawyer George Payne said Shepherd, who attended by videolink from HMP Swaleside in Kent, was "genuinely very ashamed of his behaviour," attributing it to long-term alcohol abuse. Judge Martin Edmunds KC, the Recorder of Kensington and Chelsea, rejected this claim.
"I place no faith or value in such expressions of acceptance or remorse from you," Judge Edmunds stated. He said Shepherd's pattern involves committing offenses, apologizing and then providing excuses. "You have sought to shift blame anywhere but yourself," the judge added.
Shepherd first made headlines in 2018 after fleeing to Georgia and skipping his Old Bailey trial for the 2015 death of Charlotte Brown. Brown, 24, died when Shepherd's speedboat crashed on the River Thames during a first date. He was extradited and jailed for six years for manslaughter.
In 2019, Shepherd received a four-year sentence for attacking a barman with a vodka bottle in 2018. He was freed on license two years ago before these latest assaults.
Shepherd had already been recalled to prison over the current assaults. His existing release date is Jan. 23, 2029, and the new 20-month sentence will run concurrently to that term.
