Speedboat date killer may face prosecution for false identity

SPEEDBOAT killer Jack Shepherd could face prosecution for using a false name and be given further jail time when he is extradited to Britain.

It has emerged that Shepherd, 31, created a false identity as he sought work after being charged with the manslaughter of Charlotte Brown, 24.

As his real identity was widely publicised, he posed as Jack Grant, with a range of experience at companies such as Apple, as well as the directorship of his own digital business.

Documents filed with Companies House relating to a web design company suggest that Shepherd was operating under the pseudonym for several months in the UK.

It is an offence to file false information on the register and anyone found to have knowingly done so could be jailed for up to two years.

Shepherd used the same name in online profiles and on arrival in Georgia, where he fled to avoid his Old Bailey trial and lived for 10 months.

The web design company was set up by his wife in March 2016, a month after they married and three months after Miss Brown, with whom he was on a date, died when she was flung into the Thames from his boat.

There is no suggestion that his wife, the mother of his two-year-old son, was aware of any alleged wrongdoing.

Indeed, she is understood to have been the first to tip off police that he had fled to Georgia.

Shepherd remains in custody in Tbilisi, having handed himself in when it became clear the net was closing in.

He has vowed to fight extradition, claiming his life would be in danger if he had to serve his six-year jail term.