"Many Photos" - Speedboat killer Jack Shepherd's Georgian girlfriend will 'definitely stand by him' and visit prison

Speedboat killer Jack Shepherd is expected to return to the UK today after 10 months on the run from the law.

Shepherd, 31, is being extradited from Georgia to begin a six-year prison sentence for the manslaughter of Charlotte Brown, 24.

He is due to arrive late on Wednesday, escorted by Metropolitan Police officers, before appeared at the Old Bailey tomorrow.  

Shepherd fled the UK last summer and was found guilty of killing Miss Brown in a speedboat crash on the Thames in his absence. 

It comes as his Georgian girlfriend Maiko Tchanturidze vowed to stand by him during a tearful farewell at his prison in Tbilisi.

Amateur model Miss Tchanturidze, 24, declared she would wait for Shepherd and would apply for a visa to visit him in jail in London.

Maiko Tchanturidze at a court in Tbilisi last month for an extradition hearing for Jack Shepherd

Speedboat killer Jack Shepherd faces years behind bars in Britain after he was found guilty in his absence last August and handed a six-year jail term 

Shepherd, who is married with a young son, will appear at the Old Bailey on Thursday where a judge is expected to order him to belatedly start his six-year sentence for the manslaughter of Miss Brown.

The business consultant, from Clacton, Essex, died on her first date with Shepherd in December 2015 when he took her for a drunken ride in his defective speedboat which flipped on the Thames. 

Web designer Shepherd fled to Georgia ahead of his trial last July, and was convicted in his absence.

He caused outrage by launching an appeal – funded by legal aid – from his hideaway and the Daily Mail offered a £25,000 reward in the hunt to find him.

Shepherd started dating Miss Tchanturidze, a former TV journalist, within weeks of his arrival in the former Soviet republic, but neglected to tell her he was a wanted fugitive. 

After eight months together, he tearfully confessed to being a convicted killer shortly before handing himself in to police on January 23, but told her the accident was not his fault.

Yesterday she said: 'I will definitely stand by him. I can't wait to see him again. Jack is fearful about what will happen, but he is holding it together.

Charlotte Brown who died after a speedboat crash on the Thames in December 2015. She was on a first date with Shepherd 

During the Old Bailey trial jurors were told Shepherd's speedboat was found to have a number of defects

Shepherd started dating Miss Tchanturidze, a former TV journalist, within weeks of his arrival in the former Soviet republic

'Saying goodbye was an emotional moment. But I know I will see him again. I will come to England to visit him in prison, if I can get a visa.'

Miss Tchanturidze – who took Shepherd to meet her family in Kutaisi, 140 miles west of the capital, last October – has previously said: 'He is the best person in the world. Everything the media is saying about him is false.'

Today Shepherd's glamorous Georgian lawyer Mariam Kublashvili also paid him a final visit. 

The former model, who starred on Georgia's version of Strictly Come Dancing, said: 'I felt like I was going to cry. This may be the last time we'll see each other.'

No date has yet been set for Shepherd's appeal, which is based on perceived legal errors made by the judge in relation to his police interview.

He has issued a reluctant apology to Miss Brown's parents but still blames her, insisting she was driving at the time the speedboat capsized.

Whenever he is free again, he has said he will not return to his wife but wants to secure access to his two-year-old son.

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