The Bizarre Case Of The Speedboat Killer

[naomi24]

Jack Shepherd skipped the country and, in his absence, was sentenced to six years in prison for the manslaughter of Charlotte Brown who died when the speedboat the couple were in overturned. He claims she was driving. If that’s true, why run?

He has now handed himself in at a police station in Georgia and seems totally unconcerned.

What do you make of it?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-46984333

[Canary42]

Interesting post DTC. Thames byelaws would appear to support this stance.

http://pla.co.uk/assets/River_Byelaw_9_-_Drink_or_Drugs.pdf

[DTCwordfan]

also alcohol laws/limits cover roads 'and public places'......a google found this.

[andy-hughes]

linda - // This man is a nasty piece of work. He also has a lawyer working for him in Georgi. Looks like a Page 3 model! //

The Mail has made a big deal about the appearance of his lawyer, showing photos of her in a bikini from her modelling days.

Quite what the defence counsel's previous occupation and current physical attraction has to do with her suitability to represent her client remains unadvised, but the Mail is very fond of making a meal out of titillating nonsense like this.

It's also got its trollies in a robble because there is a new drama verion of the Profumo affair in production. Since it loves pandering to the readership who have not actually moved on since the early sixties, it still manages to shoehorn the expression archaic expression 'goodtime girl' into any sentence with the words 'Christine' and 'Keeler' in it - so we can expect regular (and pointless) updates as the drama production unfolds.

As to the legal counsel in the Shepherd case, probably a few more gratuitous swimwear shots to be ferreted out and published over the coming days.

What a rag this 'paper' has become since its new editor took over.

[mushroom25]

do we take it you believe Jack Shepherd is innocent, Andy?

[andy-hughes]

mushroom - // do we take it you believe Jack Shepherd is innocent, Andy? //

Who is 'we' - and why would you take that?

[mushroom25]

correct me if I've read it inaccurately, but you appear to be answering Linda's comment - in which she describes Mr Shepherd as a rather undesirable character - with a rant about the Daily Mail, who are expressing the same view.

[andy-hughes]

mushroom - // correct me if I've read it inaccurately, but you appear to be answering Linda's comment - in which she describes Mr Shepherd as a rather undesirable character - with a rant about the Daily Mail, who are expressing the same view. //

You have read it correctly - but to deduce a perception of innocence from my post is ludicrous - I made no such inference.

[mushroom25]

then you're not saying that because the daily mail have said it, his guilt must be (as TTT might say) a load of old pony?

[bednobs]

the only legal representation for him ive seen was a man

[andy-hughes]

mushroom - // then you're not saying that because the daily mail have said it, his guilt must be (as TTT might say) a load of old pony? //

Do you actually read what I post - as in understand it?

The entire point of my post was the Mail's pointless titillation about the defence counsel, I made no reference whatsoever to Shepherd's guilt, but since you seem to have concocted some weird notion that I think he is not guilty, let me set your mind - not to say your fevered imagination - to rest - no I do not believe that he is innocent, if I did, I may have said so, but since I made no reference to his guilt, then any conclusion is entirely from your own imagination, and nothing I have said, or implied.