«Breaking News» Inside Georgia’s Abu Ghraib where speedboat killer Jack Shepherd will be jailed

Jack Shepherd would rather be locked up a prison once nicknamed Georgia's Abu Ghraib than face the music in Britain, MailOnline can reveal today.

The fugitive speedboat killer has been remanded to spend the next three months in Tblisi's Gldani maximum security prison - but it is likely to be at least nine months until the case is finished. 

The speedboat killer, 31, who faced six years behind bars in the UK, says he has had death threats so cannot return to serve time in a British jail.

He plans to use the European Convention's 'humanity' clause that blocks extradition if a criminal's life is in danger.

Yet the convict is now starting life in a jail where in 2012 inmates were filmed being beaten and raped by guards, many of whom were also corrupt. 

The staff punched and kicked prisoners to the ground and were also filmed carrying out sexual humiliation and even abused with police truncheons and broom handles. 

Jack Shepherd would rather be locked up a prison nicknamed Georgia's Abu Ghraib - the Gldani prison in Tbilisi (pictured)

Mobile phone videos from inside the jail (pictured) showed prisoners being repeatedly kicked and punched by guards and even being raped, sparking mass street protests in Georgia in 2012

Speedboat killer Jack Shepherd (left today) will spend the next three to nine months in the maximum security jail rather than go back to the UK

Gldani prison pictured around 15 years ago before it was refurbished following the abuse of inmates by criminal gangs and guards

Timeline: How speedboat fugitive killed his date and fled for Georgia

December 8 2015: Jack Shepherd and Charlotte Brown meet for a date where he takes her to the Shard for dinner, before taking a taxi back to Shepherd's home, a houseboat in Hammersmith, where they took champagne on board his speedboat for their ride past parliament.

March 2018: Shepherd was charged with GBH following an incident in which he allegedly knocked a barman unconscious with a vodka bottle in a pub while 'blind drunk'. He then failed to appear at a hearing for that case at the Old Bailey regarding Miss Brown's manslaughter.

July 2018: An international arrest warrant is issued for Shepherd

July 26 2018: Shepherd, despite being absent from court was found guilty of manslaughter by gross negligence 

July 27 2018: Shepherd is sentenced to six years' imprisonment – Shepherd's wife is then said to have told police that the 33-year-old had travelled to Georgia.

January 22 2019: Family of Charlotte meet with Savid Javid before making a television appeal for Shepherd to 'do the right thing'

January 23 2019: Shepherd hands himself in to police in Georgia

 

The staff punched and kicked prisoners to the ground and were also filmed carrying out sexual humiliation and even abused with police truncheons and broom handles. 

One juvenile prisoner was stripped down to his pants and beaten for failing to join one of the jail's criminal gangs,

Parts of one of the videos showed a half-naked man pleading for mercy while other prisoners are forced to line up and await their own beating.

At one point, an inmate is reported to have said: 'Please don't film this, I'll do anything.'

It was nicknamed Georgia's Abu Ghraib - a nod to the prison in Iraq famous for the harsh treatment of detainees in US custody. 

There was national and international outrage over the abuses inside the Georgian prison, which houses thousands of inmates including the country's most violent criminals. 

Mikheil Saakashvili, who was then Georgian President, said the abuse at Gldani revealed the nation's penitentiaries had suffered a 'systemic failure'.

Hundreds of prison guards in all Georgian prisons were suspended and immediately replaced by police officers.

Thousands flooded the streets carrying placards declaring 'rape me' while parents sobbed clutching pictures of loved-ones attacked inside the prison, which was swiftly reformed.

Today, amid extraordinary scenes in a Tblisi courtroom, the self-pitying speedboat killer claimed that the Old Bailey jury that convicted him of manslaughter made a mistake because they didn't hear his defence - even though he fled to Georgia via Turkey to avoid his trial.  

A guard opens the gates at the Gldani prison in Tbilisi in 2013, when guards had to be replaced by the police and army

Guards had allowed the ritual abuse of inmates either by themselves or other prisoners

Shepherd is likely to be sharing with three other prisoners unless he is able to secure special treatment

Before conditions improved inmates slept in large dorm-like cells (pictured) 

Shepherd, who has spent the past ten months partying, learning to ski and dating new women, said: 'The decision to go out on the boat is my greatest regret. Not a single day passes when I don’t think about the loss of Charlotte’s life'. 

Shepherd's new wife told Met he was in Georgia six months ago - so why did it take them so long to act?

Scotland Yard detectives last night faced questions about why they failed to act when Jack Shepherd’s wife told them at least six months ago that he was in Georgia.

When he did not appear for his Old Bailey trial, officers told Charlotte Brown’s family they questioned Shepherd’s wife about his whereabouts and were told he had travelled to the former Soviet republic.

Officials in Georgia’s interior ministry insisted the first they knew of the fugitive was last Monday, when the Metropolitan Police made an official request for help.

It is now known that Shepherd had been hiding in Georgia since March 21 last year after arriving in the capital Tbilisi at 3.31am. But it emerged last night that Scotland Yard did not ask for an international arrest warrant until January 11.

On that date the force contacted the National Crime Agency for the first time about the case and asked it to place a ‘red letter’ alert with Interpol. This means the earliest that Georgia or any other country would have been officially notified about the fugitive would have been that day. Sources say it is highly unlikely that the Scotland Yard officers in the case would have been allowed to go to Georgia to catch Shepherd.

Forces in the UK have to seek permission from the appropriate authorities in other countries before they are allowed to travel for investigative purposes. This can be a lengthy and complicated bureaucratic process, taking many months before the relevant permission is granted.

Even relatively simple requests such as getting criminal records, fingerprints or intelligence from foreign judicial authorities can take a long time with countries outside the European Union.

Last night a Met Police spokesman said officers had been working with the CPS to get on an Interpol red letter since Shepherd’s conviction.

The spokesman added: ‘It is obviously a very complex legal process.’

She refused to say when officers received information that he was in Georgia.

He claimed he has depression, is suicidal and an alcoholic, and said: 'I wish I’d sat down with Charlotte’s family and explained what happened. I know it’s caused them even more suffering and that’s why I handed myself in to draw to a close this horrible accident and the terrible consequences.' 

His £15,000 legal team, led by star lawyer and Georgian Strictly Come Dancing contestant Mariam Kublashvili, are helping him block extradition by claiming he had an unfair trial and his human rights have been breached.

Shepherd says he had received a phone call telling him he could be murdered if he goes to a UK jail - meaning he plans to use the European Convention's 'humanity' clause that blocks extradition if a criminal's life is in danger. 

The convict fled to Georgia via Turkey ten months ago and has spent his time on the run learning to ski, hanging out in glitzy bars and clubs and dating new women, despite having a wife back home. 

The Foreign Office’s legal team said today he must not be granted bail because there is evidence he 'will flee again' with Indonesia or Thailand his planned destination. 

Two days after he grinned as he was arrested in Tblisi, the court heard that he had entered the country in March last year after travelling via Turkey. 

Shepherd is paying up to £15,000 to Georgian lawyers to fight extradition to Britain – while still claiming legal aid.

The fugitive sparked outrage by taking thousands of pounds in UK taxpayers’ money to fund an appeal against his conviction for manslaughter while on the run.

It has emerged that he is continuing to get legal aid in Britain – while privately paying for two top Georgian lawyers, including a glamorous former model who appeared on Georgia's version of Strictly.

Today Shepherd is facing Georgian judge Roman Khorova, and first spoke in English to confirm his name, date of birth and that he entered the country in March last year.

His victim Charlotte Brown’s father Graham said last night: ‘He’s a man who has clearly stuck two fingers up to the judiciary and legal system, and has no respect for the law.

‘It sounds like he’s been living his life to the full out in Georgia, while my daughter is dead and he is responsible.’  

 

 

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