The Mail is offering the cash reward to help efforts to haul Jack Shepherd, pictured leaving the Old Bailey, back to face justice
The Daily Mail today offers a £25,000 reward to catch fugitive speedboat killer Jack Shepherd.
He is mocking the law by appealing his conviction and six-year jail sentence while being on the run.
Shepherd, 31, drunkenly flipped his speedboat on the River Thames while showing off to his date Charlotte Brown, 24.
He was saved but selfishly failed to tell rescuers about Miss Brown.
She was pronounced dead after being pulled unconscious from the cold waters.
The smartly-dressed killer was found guilty of manslaughter by gross negligence by an Old Bailey jury last July, and a judge sentenced him to six years in jail.
But by then, arrogant Shepherd was on the run, having absconded while on bail in March following a pre-trial hearing.
Now the Mail is offering the cash reward to help efforts to haul him back to face justice.
Our gesture follows outrage at the two-timing killer, who has a child with his wife, being granted the right to mount a taxpayer-funded appeal from his hiding place.
Jack Shepherd, 31, drunkenly flipped his speedboat on the River Thames while showing off to his date Charlotte Brown, 24 (pictured)
A legal aid law firm has helped him submit his appeal from his unknown bolthole.
Under client confidentiality rules, his lawyers do not have to help police find him.
Detectives hunting Shepherd, of Paddington, central London, but originally from Exeter, Devon, suspect he may have fled the UK, possibly to Spain or Georgia.
At the trial, his barrister said 'cowardice' had prevented Shepherd from facing Miss Brown's devastated family in court.
Last night her father, Graham Brown, said: 'Thank you Daily Mail, I am very happy with the £25,000 reward. Jack Shepherd should know that I will stop at nothing – whatever it takes to ensure he serves his sentence. For my beautiful daughter. We owe it to her memory.'
He added: 'It's very important that Shepherd is caught, not just for my family, but for the wider public to have faith in the legal system. This fugitive is making a mockery of justice, being on the run while receiving tens of thousands of pounds of legal aid money to launch an appeal.
'The family are very keen that he comes back and serves his sentence, so that we can try to move on, and indeed so he can.
Shepherd, a self-proclaimed Casanova who had bought his speedboat (pictured) with the sole purpose of seducing women, wooed at least ten others before the fatal trip in December 2015 with Miss Brown
'As the Daily Mail offers this reward, I would appeal for anyone who has any idea where he might be to look into their own conscience and come forward.'
Civil servant Mr Brown, 55, of Clacton, Essex, was scathing about the legal aid already given to Shepherd and his lawyers.
Almost £100,000 of taxpayers' money has been handed to Tuckers Solicitors, which has been in contact with Shepherd but says it does not know where he is.
The firm will now receive even more legal aid, having successfully argued the killer can have an appeal after citing the European Convention on Human Rights.
The company is owned by Franklin Sinclair, 60, a flamboyant solicitor who describes himself on Twitter as a 'top criminal lawyer, part time DJ and almost full-time golf hacker'.
Mr Sinclair is not directly representing Shepherd but his company is receiving money from the speedboat killer's legal aid funding.
Father-of-three Mr Brown said: 'My view on the lawyers is this – Jack Shepherd has received £100,000 in taxpayers' money for a trial he did not attend. During the trial his lawyers rigorously defended him while in secret communication with him, and it was not until this came to light that the trial judge ordered that the jury could now be made aware that Shepherd had effectively skipped bail and was absent for his trial.'
The grieving father added: 'I will not comment on this but will ask the public to make their own minds up.'
Conservative MP Peter Bone said: 'The law is an ass. How on earth can somebody on the run after being sentenced to six years at the Old Bailey possibly lodge an appeal and then get all this legal aid?'
Shepherd, a self-proclaimed Casanova who had bought his speedboat with the sole purpose of seducing women, wooed at least ten others before the fatal trip in December 2015 with Miss Brown. He lived on a houseboat on the Thames in West London, where his Fletcher Arrowflyte GTO speedboat, bought on Gumtree a few months earlier to 'pull women' – as he put it to police – was moored.
Miss Brown lived in Clacton and worked as a business consultant after gaining an English language degree.
Shepherd took her for a ride on the Thames and sped past the Houses of Parliament at twice the speed limit.
He was drunk and his craft was poorly maintained with no lifejackets to hand.
The web designer is also wanted by police over a separate incident, having been accused of glassing a stranger in a pub causing grievous bodily harm in Newton Abbott, Devon.
Just two months after killing Miss Brown, Shepherd married his fiancee. She is now said to be raising their child alone.
The reality TV lawyer whose firm has received £93,000 aid for the case
Franklin Sinclair's Twitter timeline is bursting with flamboyant pictures of him in brightly-coloured golf outfits.
Playing off a handicap of 13, he claims to be an 'almost full-time golf hacker'.
As the semi-retired boss of Tuckers Solicitors, the firm which has received £93,000 of public money to represent fugitive Jack Shepherd, Mr Sinclair has both the time and the money to pursue his passion at courses around the world.
Having served as a senior partner at Tuckers for more than 35 years, he has been outspoken about the 'awful cuts' to legal aid.
The 60-year-old is not personally involved in the Shepherd case, who is entitled to legal representation and was awarded legal aid.
Franklin Sinclair's Twitter timeline is bursting with flamboyant pictures of him in brightly-coloured golf outfits (pictured)
The former Manchester Grammar School pupil is described by legal journal Chambers as 'lauded by clients and the profession in equal measure'.
In 2012, he fronted ITV's The Briefs, a fly-on-the-wall documentary about his busy firm of specialist solicitors. He later said the television exposure had boosted new business by 20 per cent.
Last night the lawyer said: 'I am semi-retired and I can go where I want and do what I like.' He said he works in the firm's Manchester office and had never heard of the Shepherd case.
He is not afraid to get involved in controversial subjects, recently wading into the debate sparked when Jeremy Corbyn called Theresa May a 'stupid woman'.
When the row blew up in the Commons last month, Mr Sinclair tweeted: 'What's wrong with calling somebody a stupid woman if they are stupid and a woman. It's just the same as calling somebody a stupid man.'
In 2015, he made high-profile remarks in the sexism storm surrounding fellow lawyer Charlotte Proudman.
Miss Proudman, then 27, had complained of 'unacceptable and misogynistic behaviour' after a comment made by a 57-year-old barrister who had sent her a LinkedIn message complimenting her on her 'stunning picture'.
Miss Proudman complained it was sexual discrimination to 'objectify' her, but found herself under attack from critics. Among them was Mr Sinclair, who wrote on Twitter: 'What an awful thing to do, what kind of world do we live in when a man can't give a lady a compliment.' He added: 'Getalife. Nomorebriefs4u'.
When she responded saying she would not want to work for 'sexist solicitors', Mr Sinclair replied: 'I should think you've blacklisted yourself from more than just sexist ones!'
Asked in 2013 what he enjoyed most about his job, he replied: 'Nothing nowadays! It's mostly management and meetings and trying to sort out legal aid. However when I go to a police station I still love it.'
Yesterday he told the Mail: 'Legal aid payments are set by the Government and almost always result in a fixed fee payment regardless of how much work is done on the case. I have made it clear in public articles that I totally disagree with that payment system as it doesn't reward quality of the work we do and in a huge amount of cases we have to do much more work than we are actually paid for.'
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The Mail is offering the cash reward to help efforts to haul Jack Shepherd, pictured leaving the Old Bailey, back to face justice
The Daily Mail today offers a £25,000 reward to catch fugitive speedboat killer Jack Shepherd.
He is mocking the law by appealing his conviction and six-year ...
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