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This story is right up there! :)

 

2 guys kill a teenager by stabbing him 133 times and used his head as a bowling ball! (and puppet)

 

I didn't think Aussies toolk their bowling so seriously.. ;)

 

Men jailed for using teen's head as a bowling ball | NEWS.com.au

 

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.

 

Prosecutor Don McKenzie said a post-mortem examination revealed Jay had been stabbed 133 times and his head had been cut off by either an axe, saw or knife.

 

Witnesses testified Jones told friends about the murder and how Roughan had used Jay's head as a bowling ball and a puppet.

 

Jones smirked as his guilty verdict was delivered but later read out a note he had penned to the court apologising for his involvement in the murder.

 

"I am truly sorry for what happened to Jay and until the day I die I will always regret my involvement in this matter," he said.

 

"As a father, I don't know how I could cope with it."

 

Worst case ever heard

 

Justice Roslyn Atkinson deplored the offence, saying it was the worst case she had ever heard.

 

"It's hard to describe adequately the horror of the crime that you were both involved in," she told the men, who sat at opposite ends of the dock, separated by a security guard.

 

"Certainly I have had no experience of a murder so horrible.

 

"It was a murder completely without motive, which visited the most horrific violence on a 17-year-old boy who obviously had done nothing to deserve it."