Georgia set to extradite boat killer in 8 days

SPEEDBOAT killer Jack Shepherd could be sent back to Britain within eight days to serve his six-year prison sentence.

The web designer, 31, will appear at a court in the Georgian capital Tbilisi by March 28 for a hearing at which prosecutors will demand his extradition.

The father-of-one has previously blocked attempts for a swift extradition, saying he would be tortured in prison if sent back.

He even said he wanted to become a citizen of Georgia and has started speaking the language in jail.

But a source close to his legal team said yesterday that Shepherd, pictured, may not oppose his extradition this time. ‘He knows his return to the UK is just a question of when, not if,’ they said.

Shepherd was found guilty of the manslaughter of Charlotte Brown, 24, after she died after falling from his faulty speedboat during a date on the Thames in London in 2015.

He fled to Georgia a year ago and was sentenced in his absence. Following a Daily Mail campaign, he handed himself in to the Tbilisi authorities in January.

A spokesman for the prosecutor’s office in Georgia said: ‘If the lawyers and the judge all agree to the extradition, then all that is needed is the signature of the justice minister to send him to the UK.’

The Crown Prosecution Service in the UK may charge him with absconding and for glassing a barman days before he fled.

Shepherd has continued to shamelessly blame Miss Brown for the accident.