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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Murderer who decapitated teen with an axe and used his head as a bowling ball is deported from Australia
2020-06-19
[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
Posted by:Skidmark

#10  10 murcek
Posted by: Chris   2020-06-19 22:49  

#9  Feed him to the sharks
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2020-06-19 22:38  

#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  

#7  London Calling.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2020-06-19 19:06  

#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  

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

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

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

#3  that would be inhumane unlike his crimes
Posted by: Chris   2020-06-19 09:27  

#2  Why not just execute him?
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2020-06-19 08:08  

#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  

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