Freed killer who decapitated Australian teenager deported to UK

A sadistic killer who stabbed his teenage victim 133 times before cutting off his head and using it as a bowling ball has been released from jail and deported to the UK.

Christopher Clark Jones, 36, was sentenced to life behind bars after the horrific murder of 17-year-old homeless teenager Morgan Jay Shepherd at Sandgate, north of Brisbane, in 2005.

Jones served 15 years of that life sentence and was released on parole earlier this month. He was booted from the country and sent back to the UK on Monday. 

Jones moved to Australia as a child, and lived in Sandgate with his parents and infant daughter at the time of the killing. 

However, he never took up Australian citizenship and has now had his visa cancelled because he is ‘considered to not be of good character’. 

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Christopher Clark Jones (pictured being put on a private jet on Monday), 36, was sentenced to life behind bars after the horrific murder of 17-year-old homeless teenager Morgan Jay Shepherd in 2005

Morgan Jay Shepherd (pictured) was murdered by Christopher Clark Jones and James Patrick Roughan in 2005

Morgan Jay Shepherd (pictured) was murdered by Christopher Clark Jones and James Patrick Roughan in 2005

Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton cancelled Jones’ visa on character grounds before he was eligible for parole, The Courier Mail reported.

Mr Dutton said it was one of the most ‘abhorrent crimes’ in Queensland’s history and that there was no place in Australia for foreigners who murder locals. 

Jones was put on to a private jet on Monday by the Australian Border Force as security contractors took him to London.

Video shows the killer removing a black cap and holding it toward the camera as he was escorted to the private jet, apparently trying to hide his identity. 

ABF acting Commander for Enforcement Command Dean Church described the crimes he committed in 2005 as ‘particularly abhorrent’.

‘Non-citizens who commit crimes have no right to remain in Australia and will be removed from the country as soon as possible,’ he said. 

The judge who presided over the trial said the teenager’s murder was the worst case she had ever heard.

Jones had been drinking at a house rented by his co-accused James Patrick Roughan on March 29, 2005, when they got into a drunken argument with the teenager.

Mr Shepherd was living at a Brisbane youth hostel at the time and was drinking with the two older men the night he was killed.

The 17-year-old was stabbed repeatedly and had his head cut off with an axe before the pair used the head as a bowling ball and a puppet

The 17-year-old was stabbed repeatedly and had his head cut off with an axe before the pair used the head as a bowling ball and a puppet

The 17-year-old was stabbed repeatedly and was decapitated with an axe before the pair used the head as a bowling ball and a puppet.

Witnesses said the men bragged about the murder and put the victim’s head on a pawpaw tree stump.

Another friend was tricked into helping dispose of the body under the guise of selling furniture.

He only realised it was a dead body after he got out of the car and saw two legs hanging from the boot. 

The 17-year-old’s headless body was found in a shallow grave in bushland at Dayboro in April 2005. 

He had been wrapped in carpet, while his head was placed in a plastic shopping bag. 

After burying the body the men threw their shovels off a bridge on the way home.

An anonymous tip-off days led police to the body. They also found a woodsaw, carpet and bloodstained clothes at the home where Mr Shepherd was murdered.

Video shows Jones taking off a black cap and tipping it toward the camera as he walks towards the private jet

Video shows Jones taking off a black cap and tipping it toward the camera as he walks towards the private jet

An anonymous tip-off lead police days after the murder led police to the body. They also found a woodsaw, carpet and bloodstained clothes and the home where Mr Shepherd was murdered

An anonymous tip-off lead police days after the murder led police to the body. They also found a woodsaw, carpet and bloodstained clothes and the home where Mr Shepherd was murdered

While neither man admitted to killing Morgan, a witness testified that Jones bragged about his crime.

‘Chris said he stomped on him a bit and then grabbed a knife from the kitchen, stabbed him in the back, stabbed him a few times and then gave the knife to James and James stabbed him a few times,’ the witness told the Supreme Court in 2007. 

‘Then James cut the head and Chris pulled it off. James was nodding … (he) had a little smirk on his face. Chris was making a joke of the situation.’ 

In 2007 a court was told the men had discussed chopping up the teenager’s body and selling it over a Woolworths supermarket meat counter.

Jones threatened his mates and said they ‘would be next’ if they did not help him bury Morgan, the court heard.

Jones was put onto a private jet on Monday by the Australian Border Force as security contractors took him to London

Roughan told a friend he and Jones were discussing what to do with the body when Jones said: ‘We’re gonna chop this fella up and sell him off as Woolworths meat’.

The pair also discussed cutting up the body and feeding it to sharks, but decided it was too big.  

Both men were jailed for life and three other men were sentenced for helping to dispose of the corpse.

Jones unsuccessfully turned to the High Court to appeal against his conviction in 2008.