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| Speedboat killer pleads guilty to assaulting barman in Devon | Speedboat killer pleads guilty to assaulting barman in Devon |
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| Jack Shepherd, who was jailed for killing a woman in a speedboat crash, has been sentenced to a further four years in prison for assaulting a barman with a bottle. | |
| The 31-year-old is already serving a six-year prison sentence for the death of Charlotte Brown on the River Thames in December 2015. | |
| He appeared via videolink before Exeter crown court, where he pleaded guilty to a charge of wounding with intent on 16 March 2018. He admitted he had “unlawfully and maliciously” wounded David Beech, a former soldier, in Newton Abbot, Devon. | |
| Jailing him for four years, Judge David Evans told him: “Mr Beech had reasonably asked your friend to leave as he would not be serving a customer who was visibly drunk. | |
| “Your friend headed for the door and Mr Beech then asked you to do likewise, and when you became confrontational he explained why he was asking you to leave. | |
| “You should have left. The CCTV footage, which I have seen in full, shows that you took from your pocket a full glass bottle of vodka which you had brought with you and you held it primed and ready behind your back as Mr Beech reiterated the need to leave. | |
| “Mr Beech then turned to accompany your friend out of the door and you took that opportunity to take the vodka bottle from behind your back and strike Mr Beech across the head with a very hard blow. | |
| “The bottle connected with his forehead and you wounded him in such a way that afterwards he had to be taken to hospital and his wound stitched and glued. | |
| “He described the stunning effect of the blow as being like a blow from a baseball bat.” | |
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