Bowling Anyone?
SiGNAL748
11-22-2005, 01:22 PM
http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,17170437%5E421,00.html
Accused 'used head as bowling ball'
By Kevin Meade
08nov05
A MAN who allegedly decapitated a 17-year-old boy with a tomahawk in a suburban back yard later was said to have played with the teenager's head, rolling it in a paddock as if it were a bowling ball.
A chilling videotape showing police interviewing one of two men charged with the murder of transient teen Morgan Jay Shepherd was played in Brisbane Magistrates Court yesterday.
Christopher Clark Jones, 22, told detectives in the interview recorded in April that his co-accused, James Patrick Roughan, 25, stomped on Shepherd's head several times before stabbing him with a kitchen knife, then decapitating him. Mr Jones and Mr Roughan are facing a committal hearing on charges they murdered Shepherd and interfered with his corpse.
Mr Jones, who repeatedly broke down and cried during the interview, told detectives the three were "mates" and were drinking at a table in the back yard of Mr Roughan's home in the Brisbane bayside suburb of Sandgate at dusk on March 29.
"We'd all had quite a bit to drink," he said.
An argument erupted between Mr Roughan and Shepherd and both fell to the ground. Mr Roughan then stood and stomped heavily on the teenager's head, Mr Jones said. Shepherd was bleeding profusely and was making a "choking" sound.
Mr Jones said Mr Roughan then ran to the house, returned with a kitchen knife and stabbed Shepherd several times in the back. After severing the teenager's head with a tomahawk, Mr Roughan wrapped the torso in a carpet, dragged it under the house and stabbed it repeatedly with the knife.
"The c...'s psycho," Mr Jones told the two detectives. "He was just so calm about it. It was nothin' to him."
Mr Jones said that next morning, Mr Roughan hugged him, saying, "us Celts should stick together", a reference to their Celtic ancestry. Later that day, with the aid of two other men, Shepherd's body was bundled into the boot of a car and driven to a property at Dayboro, north of Brisbane.
Mr Roughan sat in the back of the car with Shepherd's head in a plastic bag on his lap, Mr Jones said. A shallow grave was dug on the property and the torso buried.
Mr Jones said Mr Roughan laughed as he "bowled the head up the hill, like it was a bowling ball". The hearing was told there were more than 100 knife wounds on Shepherd's body when it was found. Detective Sergeant Craig Williams said most of the wounds were believed to have been inflicted after death.
Accused 'used head as bowling ball'
By Kevin Meade
08nov05
A MAN who allegedly decapitated a 17-year-old boy with a tomahawk in a suburban back yard later was said to have played with the teenager's head, rolling it in a paddock as if it were a bowling ball.
A chilling videotape showing police interviewing one of two men charged with the murder of transient teen Morgan Jay Shepherd was played in Brisbane Magistrates Court yesterday.
Christopher Clark Jones, 22, told detectives in the interview recorded in April that his co-accused, James Patrick Roughan, 25, stomped on Shepherd's head several times before stabbing him with a kitchen knife, then decapitating him. Mr Jones and Mr Roughan are facing a committal hearing on charges they murdered Shepherd and interfered with his corpse.
Mr Jones, who repeatedly broke down and cried during the interview, told detectives the three were "mates" and were drinking at a table in the back yard of Mr Roughan's home in the Brisbane bayside suburb of Sandgate at dusk on March 29.
"We'd all had quite a bit to drink," he said.
An argument erupted between Mr Roughan and Shepherd and both fell to the ground. Mr Roughan then stood and stomped heavily on the teenager's head, Mr Jones said. Shepherd was bleeding profusely and was making a "choking" sound.
Mr Jones said Mr Roughan then ran to the house, returned with a kitchen knife and stabbed Shepherd several times in the back. After severing the teenager's head with a tomahawk, Mr Roughan wrapped the torso in a carpet, dragged it under the house and stabbed it repeatedly with the knife.
"The c...'s psycho," Mr Jones told the two detectives. "He was just so calm about it. It was nothin' to him."
Mr Jones said that next morning, Mr Roughan hugged him, saying, "us Celts should stick together", a reference to their Celtic ancestry. Later that day, with the aid of two other men, Shepherd's body was bundled into the boot of a car and driven to a property at Dayboro, north of Brisbane.
Mr Roughan sat in the back of the car with Shepherd's head in a plastic bag on his lap, Mr Jones said. A shallow grave was dug on the property and the torso buried.
Mr Jones said Mr Roughan laughed as he "bowled the head up the hill, like it was a bowling ball". The hearing was told there were more than 100 knife wounds on Shepherd's body when it was found. Detective Sergeant Craig Williams said most of the wounds were believed to have been inflicted after death.
vinnym86
11-22-2005, 01:30 PM
wwwwwwwoooooowww....... a true american psycho!
jabby_jabby
11-22-2005, 01:54 PM
theyre not american....
karmacae
11-22-2005, 02:07 PM
thats sick......I dont have anything more to say...!!!!
fredjacksonsan
11-22-2005, 03:02 PM
Evidently "Mr Tomahawk" has a problem.
clawhammer
11-22-2005, 03:28 PM
That's discusting. That guy should get electricuted.
fredjacksonsan
11-22-2005, 03:30 PM
That's disgusting. That guy should get electrocuted.
Sorry, had to do it.
Sorry, had to do it.
vinnym86
11-22-2005, 05:37 PM
theyre not american....
not american you say? hmm... bowling heads... how delightfully revolting... coulda sworn they were...
not american you say? hmm... bowling heads... how delightfully revolting... coulda sworn they were...
Toksin
11-22-2005, 06:21 PM
"mates"
"Brisbane."
Australian psycho.
"Brisbane."
Australian psycho.
crayzayjay
11-22-2005, 07:21 PM
Thanks. Great bedtime story
dugie6551
11-22-2005, 07:38 PM
Just another wonderful human story on this great planet we occupy together .... what a fucktard!!!
vinnym86
11-22-2005, 11:15 PM
"mates"
"Brisbane."
Australian psycho.
nvm, i didn't mean 'american' literally as in location.
i was trying to make a point that we americans are psychos, is all...
forget it, a failed attempt at a poor joke
EDIT: although, yes. psycho, none the less
"Brisbane."
Australian psycho.
nvm, i didn't mean 'american' literally as in location.
i was trying to make a point that we americans are psychos, is all...
forget it, a failed attempt at a poor joke
EDIT: although, yes. psycho, none the less
Oz
11-22-2005, 11:26 PM
QLD = Explained
fredjacksonsan
11-23-2005, 08:37 AM
QLD = Explained
:lol2:
That's riiiight.....QLD'ers are supposed to be quite, er, wacky, aren't they.
:lol2:
That's riiiight.....QLD'ers are supposed to be quite, er, wacky, aren't they.
Nicole8188
11-23-2005, 09:40 AM
I don't like how they kept referring to the killers as "Mr." but they just called the poor dead kid Shepherd.
That's really gross too. I was thinking this was going to be an actual thread about bowling...
That's really gross too. I was thinking this was going to be an actual thread about bowling...
vinnym86
11-23-2005, 11:01 AM
:lol2:
That's riiiight.....QLD'ers are supposed to be quite, er, wacky, aren't they.
...whats a QLD?
That's riiiight.....QLD'ers are supposed to be quite, er, wacky, aren't they.
...whats a QLD?
fredjacksonsan
11-23-2005, 11:08 AM
...whats a QLD?
"Quite Loopy Dolt"
Actually, the province of Queensland, Australia.
"Quite Loopy Dolt"
Actually, the province of Queensland, Australia.
vinnym86
11-23-2005, 11:22 AM
"Quite Loopy Dolt"
Actually, the province of Queensland, Australia.
oooh, right... umm, i knew that...:uhoh:
haha, thnx
Actually, the province of Queensland, Australia.
oooh, right... umm, i knew that...:uhoh:
haha, thnx
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