BACK ON THE STREETS Speedboat killer Jack Shepherd FREED from prison after serving just three years behind bars for killing Tinder date
SPEEDBOAT killer Jack Shepherd has been released from jail after serving just three years over the death of his Tinder date.
Charlotte Brown, 24, was thrown from Shepherd's boat when it capsized on the River Thames in December 2015.
He was jailed for six years in April 2019, for manslaughter by gross negligence.
But the following year, he had almost three months slashed from his sentence.
Shepherd has now been released from prison automatically after serving just half of his sentence, a family member told The Sun Online.
On the night Charlotte died, Shepherd tried to impress her with a late-night trip past the Houses of Parliament after dinner at the Shard.
He had been drinking heavily before the tragedy, while English literature graduate Charlotte barely touched a drop on their first date.
Harrowing footage showed him racing down the Thames in his faulty speedboat moments before it hit a log and flipped over.
Shepherd, who got married and had a child after the crash, was interviewed by police immediately after the tragedy before he cowardly fled the UK for Georgia.
He spent ten months on the run as Charlotte's family faced an agonising wait for justice.
Shepherd was sentenced to six years in prison in 2018 after being convicted of manslaughter in his absence.
He eventually handed himself into local authorities in Georgia and even tried protesting his innocence in front of TV cameras.
The release comes after dad Graham Brown, 60, last month told of her family’s disappointment that he could soon be released.
Speaking on Good Morning Britain, he said: “She was a wonderful daughter so full of life. She had just gotten a promotion and was looking forward to doing her driving test.
“She was 24 years old - she had her life robbed from her.
“For the family the heartache is the main thing. Nothing will replace losing Charlotte but mostly for us we still don't know what happened because Shepherd absconded from his trial."
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