‘I’ll prove I’m innocent’: Newly-bearded speedboat killer SMILES as he is arrested in former Soviet republic of Georgia after 10 months on the run from six year manslaughter sentence
Jack Shepherd
Speedboat killer Jack Shepherd vowed to prove himself innocent as he finally handed himself over to police in Georgia today, ten months after he fled justice back in Britain.
Shepherd, 31, sported a new beard and shaven head as he walked into a police station, telling reporters that he hoped to overturn his conviction for manslaughter – allowing ‘everyone to move on’.
Astonishingly, Shepherd’s Georgian lawyer Tariel Kupatadze told Rustavi-2 that his client was ‘confident that he will be able to prove his innocence and will be acquitted’.
Shepherd was convicted of killing Charlotte Brown when he drunkenly flipped his speedboat on the Thames while trying to impress her on a first date in 2015.
It is unclear if Shepherd
He was reportedly tracked down in Georgia by the country’s TV channel Rustavi-2, who he spoke to prior to his arrest.
Speaking to journalists, he said: ‘Yes my name is Jack Shepherd, I was involved in a tragic accident… in which a lady called Charlotte Brown tragically died.’
‘I hope the truth will be discovered, my appeal will end successfully and everyone can move on.’
He called her death in the Thames a ‘tragic accident’, but said that he had been demonized in the British press despite the fact that Charlotte had been driving the boat.
‘Charlotte was driving the boat when the accident happened but unfortunately this fact was forgotten and the media did not mention it either,’ he claimed.
‘Quite the opposite they wrote that I was driving’.
He added: ‘This is not true and the court
