Speedboater denies causing date death

A website developer whose date was killed after falling from his speedboat denied manslaughter today. Jack Shepherd, 30, and Charlotte Brown, 24, were hurled into the icy Thames near Wandsworth Bridge on December 8, 2015 after a dinner date at the Shard. Miss Brown, a business development consultant, from Welling, southeast London, had met Shepherd on a dating site and were alone together in his boat when the accident occurred. Police were called to reports of someone in distress near…