{"id":13644,"date":"2019-01-23T12:12:48","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T17:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=13644"},"modified":"2019-01-23T12:12:48","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T17:12:48","slug":"speedboat-killer-jack-shepherd-hands-himself-into-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2019\/01\/23\/speedboat-killer-jack-shepherd-hands-himself-into-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Speedboat killer Jack Shepherd hands himself into police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">A man convicted of killing his date in a speedboat crash in the UK has handed himself into police in Georgia after months on the run.<\/p>\n<p>Jack Shepherd was sentenced to six years in July for the manslaughter of 24-year-old Charlotte Brown.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old had been in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi since March and was absent throughout his trial.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Brown&#8217;s father Graham Brown said: &#8220;Just been informed that Jack Shepherd has been arrested in Georgia.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for the Georgian Embassy in London confirmed Shepherd&#8217;s arrest.<\/p>\n<p>It comes after Ms Brown&#8217;s family met with the Home Secretary Sajid Javid on Tuesday to renew their appeal to hand himself in.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape has-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image__img js-image-replace\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/624\/cpsprodpb\/2B8F\/production\/_105315111_bc1f7f65-7644-4957-bc46-4406479d81d5.jpg\" alt=\"Charlotte Sophie Brown\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\" data-highest-encountered-width=\"624\" \/><\/span><figcaption class=\"media-caption\"><span class=\"media-caption__text\">Shepherd took Charlotte Brown on a date on 8 December 2015<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-london-46979066\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">A man convicted of killing his date in a speedboat crash in the UK has handed himself into police in Georgia after months on the run. Jack Shepherd was sentenced to six years in July <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2019\/01\/23\/speedboat-killer-jack-shepherd-hands-himself-into-police\/\" title=\"Speedboat killer Jack Shepherd hands himself into police\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[109,2,4],"tags":[5915,5917,2999,5914,5916],"class_list":{"0":"post-13644","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headline","8":"category-news","9":"category-uk","10":"tag-charlotte-brown","11":"tag-clacton-on-sea","12":"tag-georgia","13":"tag-jack-shepherd","14":"tag-tbilisi","15":"pmpro-has-access"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13646,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13644\/revisions\/13646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}