Accused of smuggling £4.5million of cocaine, he had been threatened with up to 30 years in prison.

But the aristocrat’s hopes of walking free from a Kenyan courtroom were dashed yesterday when a magistrate refused to clear him – despite prosecutors dropping the case.

Mr Marrian, 33, grandson of the late Earl of Cawdor, sank his head in his hands as Derrick Koto announced his ruling.

The Briton was arrested in 2016 after 100kg of cocaine in black plastic sacks was found on a container ship in Mombasa, Kenya – hidden among bags of brown sugar addressed to his trading company.

Mr Marrian spent two weeks in prison while a record £500,000 bail bond was raised. 

But the Mail last week revealed that Kenyan prosecutors had decided to abandon their case and were asking for it to be formally dismissed by the courts.

The businessman’s acquittal was said to be a mere formality – but Mr Koto claimed the timing of the application to end the case was ‘suspicious, an abuse of powers and did not serve the public interest’.

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The father-of-one wined and dined Maiko Tchanturidze for months. He is understood to have given her his version of what happened to his 24-year-old victim Charlotte Brown.

Miss Tchanturidze, also 24, encouraged the 31-year-old killer to hand himself in and was with him when he was driven to the police station.

The amateur model sat by Shepherd’s side on Wednesday night when he told a Georgian TV station that Miss Brown’s death was a ‘tragic accident’.

Shepherd married his unnamed fiancee just two months after killing Miss Brown. It is thought she was pregnant at the time of the death. She is now raising their child, three, alone. His wife threw him out after discovering he had cheated on her.

Last night a source told the Mail of the Georgian romance: ‘They have become close in recent months and have made no secret of their relationship.

‘Maiko is very supportive of him and feels that he has been treated unfairly by the British legal system. But it got to the point when she felt that he could no longer live as a fugitive and had to hand himself in. She wanted to be with him when he did it, so he had someone to support him.’

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