A sadistic child rapist who molested four young girls in a spate of sex attacks dating back to the 1970s has died in prison weeks after testing positive for coronavirus.
Derrick Sheppard, who was originally sentenced to 12 years in jail in 2011, passed away at the age of 82-years-old at HMP Exeter on December 26, 2020.
A year after his sentencing, Appeal Court judges agreed the prison term was “unduly lenient” and did not reflect the gravity of his campaign of abuse. The jail term was increased to 16 years with lawyers correctly predicting he would "die in jail".
