British convict in high-profile manslaughter case surrenders to Georgian police
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Jack Shepherd, who was convicted in Great Britain in July 2018 of manslaughter by gross negligence of a woman on their first date in December 2015, surrendered to Georgian police yesterday.
The Georgian Interior Ministry says that they got involved in the search for man on 12 January 2019.
Shepherd, 31, came to the Vake-Saburtalo police department with his lawyer on 23 January,” the Georgian Interior Ministry says.
The UK Embassy to Georgia in Tbilisi thanked Georgian police via Twitter in both English and Georgian:
The ministry reported earlier on the same day that they were involved in intense cooperation with British law enforcers in order to identify Shepherd.
The BBC wrote that Shepherd, who 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.
The boat involved in the crash and examined by investigators in London. Photo: Metropolitan Police.
The BBC reported that after meeting on dating website OkCupid, Shepherd took Miss Brown on a date on 8 December 2015, where they drank wine.
After this Shepherd took Brown on a speedboat he claimed he owned.
The media says that in mobile phone footage filmed during the date, Brown could be heard shouting that they were going "so fast" as Shepherd drove at more than double the 12-knot speed limit.
The speed boat hit a submerged log and tipped over, flinging them both into the water.
Shepherd, who worked as a web designer, was found clinging to the hull, while Brown was pulled from the water unconscious and unresponsive and died in hospital.
Shepherd was on the run when the London court delivered the verdict and convicted him to six years in prison.
Prime Minister Theresa May's spokesman stated shortly after the court’s decision that the case raised "significant public concerns" and called on Shepherd to hand himself in.
Shepherd told Georgian media outlet Rustavi 2 that reports by British media that he was operating the boat wile drunk are wrong and claims that it was Brown and not him who was operating the boat when the accident happened.
He also stated that the dead woman’s father is an influential figure who could make an influence on the judiciary and this is one of the main reasons he went on the run.
Shepherd has the right to appeal the verdict.
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