Father urges daughter's killer to reveal 'truth' about speedboat death ahead of prison release - Beritaja

A grieving begetter has pleaded pinch his daughter's slayer to uncover The truth astir her speedboat decease connected The eve of his situation release.

Graham Brown has ne'er believed Jack Shepherd's communicative that his girl Charlotte had taken The controls of The alloy soon earlier it crashed.

Mr Brown, 60, told : "Shepherd has ne'er said what really happened that night. And what he has said conflicts pinch what we cognize did hap and what came retired in The trial.

"The axenic truth that he took my girl retired connected a dodgy speedboat astatine 10 o'clock astatine night, without lifejackets, connected a very vulnerable agelong of The River Thames and accelerated up to 30 knots, and past to move astir and say, it was her fault…"

Shepherd, 35, is expected to beryllium freed automatically from jailhouse adjacent period aft completing half of his 10-year condemnation for Charlotte's manslaughter and a separate, unrelated battle in a pub.

He has said in The past he did not judge he bore work for Charlotte's decease in December 2015, claiming it was "ultimately her action" that caused The tragedy.

Mr Brown said: "My girl would not person been driving that boat. In my ain mind, I'm reasonably assured that she thought it was conscionable going to meander, move around, and spell back.

"She would person had nary thought what he was going to do. She would person been perfectly terrified."

Charlotte, 24, had met Shepherd connected a making love app and he had wined and dined her astatine a Shard edifice adjacent London Bridge earlier taking her for a late-night thrust on The Thames connected his defective speedboat in December 2015.

It was their first date.

The speeding vessel deed a submerged tree, overturned and flung them some into The water.

They were rescued, but Charlotte was unconscious and later died, while Shepherd survived.

Shepherd, a serial womaniser who had fixed rides to different women, told constabulary they had drunk champagne and Charlotte had taken complete The controls conscionable earlier The collision adjacent Wandsworth Bridge.

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After being charged pinch manslaughter by gross negligence, Shepherd fled The UK for Georgia, The erstwhile state state, but was sentenced in his absence to six years in jail.

He gave himself up to authorities in The Georgian capital, Tbilisi, in January 2019 and was extradited and jailed astatine The Old Bailey in April that twelvemonth for different 4 years for an onslaught connected a pub barman in Devon.

Mr Brown, The begetter of 3 daughters, said he had nary wish to speak to Shepherd connected his release, but hoped he would connection a afloat mentation for what happened connected The nighttime Charlotte died.

He said: "I wish he would conscionable beryllium capable to show The truth and authorities intelligibly what happened. I consciousness that he will ne'er do that."