Speedboat killer back behind bars

SPEEDBOAT killer Jack Shepherd has been sent back to prison over 18 months after he was released on licence. Charlotte Brown died on their first date in December 2015 after she was thrown from his boat when it capsized on the Thames in London after hitting a submerged tree trunk.

- By Anahita Hossein-Pour

Shepherd, a web designer, was freed before the end of his six-year sentence in January last year, but is now back behind bars for breaching licence conditions.

Brown's father Graham told a newspaper: "He's back where he belongs.