British convict detained in Tbilisi sent to pre-extradition detention

British convict Jack Shepherd, who surrendered to the Georgian police on Wednesday, has been sent to the three-month pre-extradition detention.

The decision was announced by a judge of the Tbilisi City Court earlier today.

The BBC wrote that Shepherd, who  was convicted in absentia in the UK in July 2018 of manslaughter by gross negligence of a woman named Charlotte Brown, 24,  in a speedboat crash in London in 2015, has been in Georgia since March.

UK Interior Minister Sajid Javid phoned Georgian Interior Minister Giorgi Gakharia yesterday to thank him for the support in detaining British convict Jack Shepherd in Georgia this week.

The Georgian Interior Ministry says that they got involved in the search for the man on 12 January 2019.