Bowling With Your Mates

A man who decapitated 17-year-old Morgan Jay Shepherd with a tomahawk in a suburban back yard later was said to have played with the teenager’s head, rolling it in a paddock as if it were a bowling ball. Christopher Clark Jones, 22, told detectives in the interview recorded in April that his co-accused, James Patrick Roughan, 25, stomped on Shepherd’s head several times before stabbing him with a kitchen knife, then decapitating him. We’d all had quite a bit to drink, he said — Warren Ellis