Overview
- He was sentenced on Monday at Isleworth Crown Court to 20 months in prison after pleading guilty to two counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and a charge of damaging property, with the term to run concurrently with his existing sentence.
- Prosecutors told the court Shepherd pinned his partner down and punched her in February 2025 and in June 2025 stabbed her left breast with sharply pointed barbecue tongs, breaking the skin and leaving a permanent scar, and also broke her car keys during the same month.
- Judge Martin Edmunds KC applied the legal 'dangerousness' test, saying Shepherd posed a significant risk of causing serious harm to any new girlfriend and extending his licence so he will remain under supervision until May 2032.
- The court noted Shepherd’s high-profile 2018 manslaughter conviction, his subsequent flight to Georgia and extradition, and earlier violent offending as factors that aggravated the sentence and informed the assessment of risk.
- The victim has suffered lasting physical and emotional harm, Shepherd’s recall to prison removed him from the community, and the extended licence means probation oversight will continue after his release to try to reduce the risk of further domestic violence.