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Men jailed for using teen's head as a bowling ball
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| kotsy |
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Men jailed for using teen's head as a bowling ball
April 04, 2007 06:20pm
TWO men have been jailed for life for the brutal slaying of a homeless teenager who was stabbed 133 times and decapitated before his head was used as a bowling ball.
After six hours of deliberations, a Brisbane Supreme Court jury this afternoon found James Patrick Roughan, 27, and Christopher Clark Jones, 23, guilty of the gruesome murder of 17-year-old Morgan Jay Shepherd (known as Jay) on March 29, 2005.
The pair, both from Sandgate, north of Brisbane, had already pleaded guilty to interfering with a corpse.
During the trial of almost three weeks, the court was told police found Jay's headless body buried in a shallow grave in Dayboro, north of Brisbane, following an anonymous tip-off only days after he died.
The jury heard Jay, who was a resident of a Brisbane youth hostel, had been drinking with both the accused at Roughan's home before a fight broke out.
Prosecutor Don McKenzie said a post-mortem examination revealed Jay had been stabbed 133 times and his head had been cut off by either an axe, saw or knife.
Police found a tomahawk, knife, handsaw and pruning saw stained with the victim's blood in Roughan's shed, as well as blood-stained clothing containing Jones' DNA.
Witnesses testified Jones told friends about the murder and how Roughan had used Jay's head as a bowling ball and a puppet.
Jones smirked as his guilty verdict was delivered but later read out a note he had penned to the court apologising for his involvement in the murder.
"I am truly sorry for what happened to Jay and until the day I die I will always regret my involvement in this matter," he said.
"As a father, I don't know how I could cope with it."
Worst case ever heard
Justice Roslyn Atkinson deplored the offence, saying it was the worst case she had ever heard.
"It's hard to describe adequately the horror of the crime that you were both involved in," she told the men, who sat at opposite ends of the dock, separated by a security guard.
"Certainly I have had no experience of a murder so horrible.
"It was a murder completely without motive, which visited the most horrific violence on a 17-year-old boy who obviously had done nothing to deserve it."
The men have each served 732 days in pre-sentence custody.
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| King_Mack |
wow.
I really cant say anything more than that |
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| ItalianPoiSon |
thats a........pretty ty......
it would be funny in a movie thou..... |
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| Frenchie |
:blinks:
What? Sick.
So were his eye sockets and mouth used as finger holes?
That was uncalled for, I'm going to hell. |
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| EvilTree |
| Nothing in the world surprises me anymore. |
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| geroin |
| who won the bowling game though? its not mentioned in the article |
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| RobotHouse |
| sounds like something out of american psycho |
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| andielips |
| OMG, that was really sad!!! |
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| kotsy |
| It's disrespectful to the lane manager above all.. he has to clean that mess up. Imagine the condition of the ball return. Someone's booking overtime. |
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| jchung52 |
| that would be the wtf of the day |
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| Abercrombie |
| quote: | Originally posted by Frenchie
So were his eye sockets and mouth used as finger holes?
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Don't ask how I dragged a pantiless chick out of a bar once.
/two tickets please. |
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