UK Foreign Secretary thanks Georgia for extradition of Shepherd
UK Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt wrote that he celebrated the return of Jack Shepherd to face justice. Photo: Jack Taylor/Getty Images.
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UK Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has thanked Georgia on his official Twitter page for the extradition of British convict Jack Shepherd.
He tweeted:
I often speak out about injustice faced by Brits overseas, but today I celebrate a Brit coming home to face justice. My thanks to Georgia @gakhariaGiorgi & @metpoliceuk @NCA_UK for bringing back Jack Shepherd
— Jeremy Hunt (@Jeremy_Hunt) April 11, 2019
Georgian escort officers handed over Shepherd, convicted of manslaughter by gross negligence, to the British police yesterday at the Tbilisi International Airport.
Before that Minister of Justice of Georgia issued a decree granting the extradition request lodged by the UK for Shepherd.
Shepherd was convicted in absentia in the UK in July 2018.
He does not admit to the crime.
The BBC wrote that Shepherd, who allegedly killed a woman named Charlotte Brown, 24, in a speedboat crash on the River Thames in London in December 2015, has been in Georgia since March.
Georgian escort officers will hand over British convict Jack Shepherd, convicted of manslaughter by gross negligence, to the British police today at the Tbilisi International Airport, announces the Special Penitentiary Service of Georgia.
Georgian Justice Minister Thea Tsulukiani has signed the extradition order of British convict Jack Shepherd, accused of manslaughter by gross negligence, who surrendered to the Georgian police on January 23, 2019.
A Belgian court will release a 27-year-old Georgian man who was arrested for the robbery of a bank in Antwerp, De Tijd newspaper of Belgium reports.
UK citizen Jack Shepherd, who surrendered to the Georgian police on 23 January, has told the Tbilisi City Court that he does not want to be extradited to his homeland immediately.