Overview
- Shepherd entered guilty pleas via video link at Isleworth Crown Court on Tuesday to two counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and one count of criminal damage.
- Prosecutors say he admitted pinning the woman down and punching her in February 2025 and striking her chest with barbecue tongs in June 2025, the latter leaving a permanent scar.
- Those assaults led to his recall to prison in September 2025 after he had been released on licence in January 2024, and details of the offences were set out in a Parole Board report published this year.
- Prosecutors dropped separate allegations of controlling or coercive behaviour and intentional suffocation as part of the plea, and Judge Martin Edmunds ordered a probation report ahead of a sentencing hearing in September.
- Shepherd was already serving a 10‑year combined sentence for the 2015 River Thames death of Charlotte Brown and a later alcohol‑fuelled assault, and he told the court his projected release from the manslaughter term is January 2029.