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BUT DID THEY PICK UP THE SPARE?

A ten-pin trauma in sunny Queensland:

A jury has retired in the case of two men accused of stabbing a Brisbane teenager 133 times and using his decapitated head as a bowling ball ...

Via reader DP. Who, as it happens, comes from Adelaide.

Posted by Tim B. on 04/04/2007 at 07:13 AM
  1. Who among us HASN’T used a guy’s head as a bowling ball at one time or another?

    Posted by blogagog on 2007 04 04 at 07:23 AM • permalink

  2. Yes, but won’t anyone think of why they did it?

    Posted by Nic on 2007 04 04 at 07:23 AM • permalink

  3. I thought that judges in Qld had given up on trying to find 12 Queenslanders who weren’t racist. Did they fly this jury in?

    Posted by Biff on 2007 04 04 at 07:29 AM • permalink

  4. I wonder if he did this with it? (Bowling link, not decapitation link)

    Posted by Villeurbanne on 2007 04 04 at 07:39 AM • permalink

  5. using his decapitated head as a bowling ball ...

    You think that is bad? You should have seen what they were using for the pins.

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 04 04 at 07:54 AM • permalink

  6. Root causes??

    Posted by Razor on 2007 04 04 at 07:55 AM • permalink

  7. #6 iq of a bowling ball?

    Posted by KK on 2007 04 04 at 08:06 AM • permalink

  8. The dead teenager is from my home town,He was not in Brisbane long before being killed.I think i remember the to guys were pretty drug fucked…you know those lovely drugs the greens want to make legal for all.

    Posted by sparrow on 2007 04 04 at 08:12 AM • permalink

  9. A tomahawk, knife, handsaw and pruning saw? Was that overkill, or were they just muslims?

    Posted by mareeS on 2007 04 04 at 08:24 AM • permalink

  10. Maybe the two men concerned can become Oz democrat candidates?

    Posted by Rob Read on 2007 04 04 at 08:25 AM • permalink

  11. Would anybody have a problem with some Albert Pierpont punishment for these sickos, if they are found guilty on all counts.

    Posted by BJM on 2007 04 04 at 08:33 AM • permalink

  12. James Patrick Roughan, 27, and Christopher Clark Jones, 23

    They don’t sound very muslim, mareeS.

    Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 04 04 at 08:57 AM • permalink

  13. They were disadvantaged, or something, and the degree of their disadvantage, or something, is demonstrated by the severity and depravity of their crime. Because I know the only reason I would do something so horrible is if I had a hugely morally compelling reason to do so, like, for example, if I didn’t have enough money for smokes, or something.

    Posted by wreckage on 2007 04 04 at 08:58 AM • permalink

  14. The jury didn’t take too long totalling the score.

    Nor did the judge waste any time handing out the pin badges to the winners on the night.

    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.

    Posted by geoff on 2007 04 04 at 08:59 AM • permalink

  15. Could result in a split decision.

    Posted by SoberHT on 2007 04 04 at 09:10 AM • permalink

  16. Well they did try to frame each other.

    Posted by geoff on 2007 04 04 at 09:14 AM • permalink

  17. A multiple murderer I happened to meet shortly before he was caught sat at a table with a bunch of us on the piss.
    We were there (including the murdered girls boyfriend) getting blotto and having a “what id do to the bastard if I caught him” session. I hadnt met him before but he was living with 3 other blokes one of whom was a mate.
    I went out bush for a couple of weeks and when I got back Billy was facing murder charges after ringing the cops and slashing his wrists (rumor had it he tried to cut off his tallywhacker as well) but the coppers arrived a bit too soon.
    He killed a woman, her son and 2 daughters with a tomahawk and knives and raped the bodies.
    Massive quantities of the greens “harmless” mull was involved in that as well.
    Made my skin crawl when I first heard it was him, sitting and drinking and joining in the ‘what I’d do’s” with the rest of us….

    Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 04 04 at 09:14 AM • permalink

  18. #17 thefrollickingmole

    You’re a South Australian, right?

    Posted by geoff on 2007 04 04 at 09:17 AM • permalink

  19. Wow, it took them all of six hours.  Besides that, is a life sentence 14 years as it is in NSW?

    Posted by Crossie on 2007 04 04 at 09:18 AM • permalink

  20. The prosecution is merely trying to pin this on my clients.

    Posted by Habib on 2007 04 04 at 09:19 AM • permalink

  21. #15, 16, those comments are in the gutter.

    Obviously the solution to such crimes is a government program to provide bowling balls for everyone.  Um, wait, does bowling ball production contribute to goebbels whinering?

    Posted by rbj1 on 2007 04 04 at 09:20 AM • permalink

  22. 18.  geoff

    No WA, Geraldton where I used to live. About 20,000 people with a shitload of crime and drugs.
    Also down the street (again on the piss) another night when a couple of far right nutters(ANM?) executed one of their members in the driveway about 5 houses down.
    Again a crop of that lovely green stuff was the main cause.

    Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 04 04 at 09:29 AM • permalink

  23. #21 Won’t someone spare them?

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 04 04 at 09:29 AM • permalink

  24. #12, Nilknarf Arbed,

    No, apparently not muslim (BTW, that was a throwaway comment, please pardon my islamophobia) but obviously feral. As thefrolickingmole pointed out in #17, you have to be a particular type of individual to hack off heads and dismember bodies with axes, knives, pruning saws. Who cares what background or branch of the lesser-developed hominid line they come from. Pit-bull terriers get put down for less than that.

    Posted by mareeS on 2007 04 04 at 09:45 AM • permalink

  25. using his decapitated head as a bowling ball ...

    How do you decapitate a head?

    Posted by Dave S. on 2007 04 04 at 09:46 AM • permalink

  26. very sad all this drink & drug stuff.  time was when civilised people could chill with a wee sliffy or a g&t in the comfort of their own homes, with no greater threat to the social niceties than the odd inappropriate pass at someone or a bit of inane giggling or spazzo dancing.  these days any old bogan can scarf down 36 tinnies & a bucket bong of skunk & utterly ruin ones party by attacking the guests with a machete.  i blame the hippies

    Posted by KK on 2007 04 04 at 10:00 AM • permalink

  27. #23: “#21 Won’t someone spare them?”

    No, they should be racked with guilt for waht they did.

    Posted by ThinAndBritish on 2007 04 04 at 10:18 AM • permalink

  28. #27 now we are really going down a dark alley.

    Posted by rbj1 on 2007 04 04 at 10:20 AM • permalink

  29. #28:
    I think the whole thing was a setup anyway.

    (Poor. Very poor.)

    Posted by ThinAndBritish on 2007 04 04 at 10:24 AM • permalink

  30. The jury retired?  How the hell long was this trial,anyway?

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 04 04 at 10:27 AM • permalink

  31. #29 More likely a poor delivery on the part of the defense that lead to this foul judgement.

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 04 04 at 10:29 AM • permalink

  32. #31: “#29 More likely a poor delivery on the part of the defense that lead to this foul judgement. “

    That’s right. They just didn’t have the balls for it.

    Posted by ThinAndBritish on 2007 04 04 at 10:38 AM • permalink

  33. I don’t really like the idea of a death penalty but cases like this make me wonder if we have punishments severe enough for the most heinous of crimes.

    Maybe it’s time to bring back hard labour?

    Posted by Nicholas on 2007 04 04 at 10:39 AM • permalink

  34. #33 My grandfather saw a public hanging in East Texas as a small boy in the 1910’s. He said it made such a vivid impression on him that he was afraid to even think about committing a capital offense all of his life.  I am in favor of capital punishment, just not the current means.  The lethal injection method gets the job done, but takes away the huge psychological advantage that a gruesome public hanging provided.  And I don’t listen to the but its barbaric and inhumane nonsense. It’s an execution. It’s SUPPOSED to be barbaric and inhumane, mirroring the barbaric and inhumane crime committed.

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 04 04 at 10:51 AM • permalink

  35. Call me prudish, but this story and the Sear dating link story were unnecessary and do not do credit to this site.

    Posted by boxofmatches on 2007 04 04 at 11:14 AM • permalink

  36. When I read about barbaric crimes being committed, I want to try the parents of the accused also.  It’s their responsibility in making sure the children they rear act in a reasonably civilized manner.

    Sure it’s not always the parents’ fault that their son (or daughter) has gone astray.  But they usually have a big part in it.

    Posted by wronwright on 2007 04 04 at 11:59 AM • permalink

  37. Well, its a good thing drugs other than alcohol are illegal in Australia.  Otherwise some total nutter might get his hands on them and go on a killing spree.

    Kinda the same deal as the Aussie gun “ban”, when you think about it.

    Posted by R C Dean on 2007 04 04 at 12:42 PM • permalink

  38. so, what is the ‘green stuff’ you fellas are talking about?  Marijuana?  Meth?  Something else the hippies want to legalise?

    Posted by heather on 2007 04 04 at 04:11 PM • permalink

  39. I wonder if they moved up to Qld from SA?

    Posted by kae on 2007 04 04 at 06:11 PM • permalink

  40. Juries are not adequately compensated, I know.
    In this case, I think the jury should receive an ex gratia payment for having to sit through the evidence.

    Posted by chrisgo on 2007 04 04 at 06:18 PM • permalink

  41. #25, Good point Dave S.  It shows the writer’s poor understanding of the language.

    Posted by anthony_r on 2007 04 04 at 07:13 PM • permalink

  42. #40 chrisgo, this murder would have been a doddle to sit through compared to this harrowing case.

    Posted by anthony_r on 2007 04 04 at 07:19 PM • permalink

  43. #26 KK
    I’m with you KK.

    I agree that once upon a time one could sit on the verandah, flip one up and enjoy a bout of giggling. These days, giggling is replaced by frowning and deathly silence.

    Skunk is certainly to blame and has been brought about by frenetic plant breeding, largely in SA where is has been more or less legal for about 20 years.

    Once you then bust backyard bush weed growers, this makes the indoor hydro production of skunk, by serious crims, all the go.

    This hydro skunk stuff certainly sends the kiddies quite mad, especially when topped up with a bit of meth, which is available for less than the cost of a packet of winnie reds.

    What you see in the sunshine state these days is homeless people, who once would gather around a flagon, scoring a cotton boll soak in liquid meth and chewing on it. Heinous crimes ensue.

    The distinction between “a bit of smoko” and “hard stuff” is hardly worth worrying about these days, it all leads to grief.

    Once upon a time the hippies would be sitting in a circle, stoned and singing “koom bye yar” and the smackies would be breaking into your house to pinch the VCR. These were the good old days, now iced up kiddies want to kill you. There ain’t no giggling.

    But of course now you can get Bundy (make a willie wagtail fight an emu) Rum in cans, just like soft drink.

    Posted by Pickles on 2007 04 04 at 08:15 PM • permalink

  44. Understand the “bowler” is being approached by the SA Democrats to run for parliament. Democrat MP Sandra Kanck feels the views of sadist killers are not properly represented in the SA parliament.

    “It is a large proportion of the South Australian population that doesn’t have voice in the House,” she told reporters.

    Posted by Contrail on 2007 04 04 at 08:37 PM • permalink

  45. #42 - the decision in the case you linked to was the best one could have hoped for.  The parents had already served their sentence for 28 years, poor buggers.

    Posted by Razor on 2007 04 04 at 11:25 PM • permalink

  46. Perhaps the perps should have hired MrLefty to get them off?

    Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2007 04 05 at 12:20 AM • permalink

  47. BUT DID THEY PICK UP THE SPARE?

    Yes, and no doubt it was the 7-10 split.

    Posted by CraigC on 2007 04 05 at 01:07 AM • permalink

  48. Is a decapitated head the same as an alarmed door?

    Posted by LaVallette on 2007 04 06 at 03:06 AM • permalink

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