James Patrick Roughan / Christopher Clark Jones
Stabbed an Australian teenager 133 times. Used his head as a bowling ball and a puppet.
Click HERE to read the story from Adelaide Now.
James Patrick Roughan, 27, and Christopher Clark Jones, 23, of Sandgate, north of Brisbane, have pleaded not guilty to murdering 17-year-old Morgan Jay Shepherd on March 29, 2005. Both have pleaded guilty to being an accessary after the fact and interfering with a corpse.
The jury in the Supreme Court in Brisbane has heard almost two weeks of evidence. During the trial, the court was told the victim, who lived in a Brisbane youth hostel, had been drinking with the accused at Roughan's residence when a fight broke out. P rosecutor Don McKenzie told the court the fight ended with Mr Shepherd being stabbed 133 times and decapitated.
Mr McKenzie told the court that although Mr Roughan and Mr Jones had sought to blame each other for Mr Shepherd's death, both men were allegedly involved. Police found a tomahawk, knife, handsaw and pruning saw stained with the victim's blood in Mr Roughan's shed, as well as blood-stained clothing featuring Mr Jones's DNA. It is also alleged the accused used Mr Shepherd's head as a bowling ball and a puppet before burying his body in a shallow grave at Dayboro, northwest of Brisbane.
12 comments:
You are very quick to believe all you read in the papers Mr Correctional Officer! One of those boys is innocent and I will prove it. One of them has been left very angry and bitter due to the sham of a trial. I thought people in your type of work were not meant to voice their opinion. Perhaps you will see people in hell because you are that type!
you are a dickhead there is no way those fags are innocent i hope you and there family all die of hiv. thats sic they should be raped in prison and as for u i live in melbourne so come down here and we will have a talk about how full of shit u are
In reply to anonymous, July 2008; Grow up and educate yourself! I will be in Melbourne soon however I would not lower myself to meet up with someone of such purposeful low IQ. Your language indicates to me that you may have personal experience with fags and HIV so I guess your family are already suffering for your way of life. Enjoy your small little world.
low iq, i forgot you can tell alot about a person from how they write on the internet. So that must make you very smart, with such a high iq as to pick that up...
But i dont need to be smart to know that the people that did this are not normal people, and have some problems that only death would fix. The things i said may be inmature but are only said becuase i feel hate towards a person that would do that to another person, not becuase i am gay or have hiv so your claims are baseless, as for my family life its great thanks for asking. if these guys only hope is you then there in big trouble. oh yeah my iq is low then how do u beleve in hell that is something of a low iq?? Iq aside your still a dickhead and there still fucks and i hope the one thats left so bitter and bla bla by this trail, knows how he wrecked the life of a family becuase there would be nothing worse then to live with that and jail is the one place he is away from people.
Why is homosexuality introduced into every arguments. It's wierd. What country are you people from?
It is a scary Sad old world,
Sexuality has nothing to do with the actions of these deranged people.
You idiots.
These murderers were acting on their own perverted reality, Please leave the sexual tones out of your assements, because in doing so you are grouping
all homosexuals in the same group as these low life's. Moast of whom are law abiding citizens of this state and country and would be shocked by the actions of these murderers, and by the way of your
un educated narrow view of the world.
Wake up idiots.
For the anon from the first comment, i hope one day you will be knocked unconscious then stabbed well over 100 times only to have your head taken off and played with. Maybe you still would not care, or maybe, like most people, you would find this a horrid thing and wish harm upon the attackers. Do you understand of morals? Do you know of sympathy? Maybe the only sympathetic thoughts you have are for yourself. So next time you spout off about how other people are going to end up in hell, you might try putting yourself in someone else's shoes.
Denial is what makes people full of bitterness and hatred. The evidence is very very clear. Two very evil people committed a very evil act. How disrespectful to the family of the deceased to only be thinking of oneself and the inconvenience of jail. Remove your emotions and look at the EVIDENCE. People need to take responsibility for their actions and by the sounds of things these two were not raised to do that. To even be near such a crime would be unforgivable and truly disgusting so while each attempts to blame each other that point is also missed! My thoughts go to the family of the deceased.
Wow, reading the first post bought tears to my eyes. Jay was one of my best friends in Primary School and the start of High School until he moved from Grafton to Brisbane. The pain of knowing that such a horrendous crime could happen to someone you were once close to is unimaginable. I feel deeply sorry that he got mixed up with such scum and it cost him his life....I hope they get the life sucked from them in prison because it is much, much less than the fate that they deserve.
i know that both were as equally guilty because i was told over the phone rot in hell sick bastards
Just wondering if anyone happens to know the address where this crime happened? I'd like to get a shot of the house; I love my grisly histories :)
Jay is my big brother,
These sick twisted men killed him when i was like in year 4 in primary school i had only met him like twice my whole life.
I hope they get what they deserve in prison, my brother was the most amazing person, he did not deserve any of this. Couple years ago i found out the true story as to what happened i was horrified, completely shattered, really hope there lives in prison are hell for them.
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