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2020-06-19 -Lurid Crime Tales-
Murderer who decapitated teen with an axe and used his head as a bowling ball is deported from Australia
[DailyMail]
  • Christopher Clark Jones, 36, was sentenced to life in prison for murder in 2005

  • Found guilty of murdering 17-year-old homeless teenager Morgan Jay Shepherd

  • Jones and his co-accused James Patrick Roughan stabbed Morgan 133 times

  • They cut off his head and used it as a bowling ball and a puppet, witnesses said

  • After serving 15 years in prison Jones was released on Monday and sent to UK
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Posted by Skidmark 2020-06-19 07:34|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1852 views ]  Top

1 Surely Australia should keep him?

This sounds like a scandal akin to the Windrush scandal in the UK.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-06-19 07:58||   2020-06-19 07:58|| Front Page Top

2 Why not just execute him?
Posted by Rob Crawford 2020-06-19 08:08||   2020-06-19 08:08|| Front Page Top

3 that would be inhumane unlike his crimes
Posted by Chris 2020-06-19 09:27||   2020-06-19 09:27|| Front Page Top

4 "After serving 15 years in prison..."

"Life" is short.
Posted by European Conservative 2020-06-19 10:05||   2020-06-19 10:05|| Front Page Top

5 Isn't a life sentence in eurineland like about 7 years?
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-06-19 12:34||   2020-06-19 12:34|| Front Page Top

6 I think even the Russians got rid of the death penalty. But, yes, I think a life sentence is several months.
Posted by DooDahMan 2020-06-19 13:26||   2020-06-19 13:26|| Front Page Top

7 London Calling.
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-06-19 19:06||   2020-06-19 19:06|| Front Page Top

8 It's true that in Germany a "life sentence can mean parole after 15 years (ridiculous). The kind of murder described here would not qualify. And often "Sicherheitsverwahrung" may be decided.
Posted by European Conservative 2020-06-19 21:07||   2020-06-19 21:07|| Front Page Top

9 Feed him to the sharks
Posted by Alaska Paul 2020-06-19 22:38||   2020-06-19 22:38|| Front Page Top

10 10 murcek
Posted by Chris 2020-06-19 22:49||   2020-06-19 22:49|| Front Page Top

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