Speedboat killer Jack Shepherd will face an extradition hearing starting next week after the CPS submitted an official request to Georgia.
The Crown Prosecution Service confirmed it had prepared a request which has been sent to Georgian authorities by the Home Office.
Shepherd, 31, went on the run and was convicted in his absence last year of killing Charlotte Brown, 24, on a Champagne-laden first date when his speedboat overturned in the Thames.
He has been held at a prison in Tbilisi, Georgia, having turned himself on January 23.
Jack Shepherd appeared in Tbilisi Central Court, in Tbilisi, Georgia after turning himself into the authorities in January
His lawyer, Tariel Kakabadze, posted on Facebook saying a court hearing on the extradition was expected to start next week.
A heavily-bearded Shepherd was seen smiling as he entered a police station in Georgia’s capital Tbilisi in January, telling reporters: 'I was in a tragic accident.'
Last month the web designer described in handwritten notes his time in prison in the former Soviet state, saying he was living under ‘very great fear’.
One note read: ‘My family, lawyers and people close to me have been subject to threats and psychological pressure.’
Shepherd claimed he had received a threatening call after a court appearance. He wrote: ‘I received a call, the man didn’t say his name.
He said my time in prison would be very bad.’ The killer linked the threat to Miss Brown’s father Graham, 55, a semi-retired Prison Service data analyst.
Shepherd’s lawyers have claimed his life would be in danger if he was returned to a British jail because of Mr Brown’s career.
Mr Brown, of Sidcup, south-east London, has dismissed the fugitive’s claims as a ‘preposterous fabrication’.
In January Shepherd’s Georgian lawyer, Mariam Kublashvili, indicated that he may no longer fight being returned to the UK if his safety here could be guaranteed.
It came after a judge in Georgia ruled against a petition to fast-track Shepherd’s extradition after his lawyers argued he would be tortured in Britain.
But in Shepherd’s notes, written during his stay at Gldani Number Eight maximum security prison and seen by The Times, he expressed a wish to remain in the country ‘if Georgia will have me’.
Referring to his extradition battle, he said: ‘I am still in conversation with my legal advisers about options. We need to consider every detail... for or against extradition.’
Victim: Charlotte Brown, 24, died after a speedboat crash on the Thames, Jack Shepherd was found guilty of her death at the Old Bailey
Jack Shepherd's Georgian lawyer, Mariam Kublashvili, indicated in January that he may no longer fight being returned to the UK if his safety here was guaranteed
The fugitive claimed he was suffering from depression before being convicted of Miss Brown’s manslaughter in his absence at the Old Bailey.
The father of one’s comments are likely to further infuriate his victim’s family, who have expressed disgust at Shepherd’s failure to apologise unreservedly for her death.
Her mother Roz Wickens, 53, has urged him to ‘stop lying’ and ‘tell the truth about what happened’.
Shepherd has claimed that Miss Brown was driving the speedboat when it flipped on the Thames in December 2015 following a date.
He fled the UK before a jury found him guilty in July last year of causing her death. He was sentenced to six years in prison in Britain.
He was condemned when he claimed legal aid to appeal his conviction while still a fugitive.
After ten months on the run, and following a Daily Mail campaign for justice, Shepherd turned himself in to police in Georgia last month.
He fled last March after his wife threw him out of the family home when she discovered he was on the tragic date with Miss Brown.
In the months before her death, Shepherd had entertained up to ten other women on the ageing and badly-maintained speedboat.
Georgian law states that extradition is granted over convicted individuals if they have been sentenced to at least four months’ imprisonment.
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Main photo article Speedboat killer Jack Shepherd will face an extradition hearing starting next week after the CPS submitted an official request to Georgia.
The Crown Prosecution Service confirmed it had prepared a request which has been sent to Georgian authorities by the Home Office.
Shepherd, 31, went on the ...
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