A 31 year old British man who absconded last year after killing a woman in a speedboat crash on the River Thames has been arrested and detained in the former Soviet state of Georgia.
Jack Shepherd was convicted in his absence last July of manslaughter by gross negligence of Charlotte Brown, 24, and sentenced to six years in jail.
Shepherd had taken Brown on a first date in December 2015 during which the couple dined at a restaurant in London’s tallest building, The Shard, before he took her for a ride in a speedboat he said he owned.
Prosecutors said he was drunk and that neither he nor Brown was wearing a life-jacket.
