"We'd all had quite a bit to drink,"

Australia - if the wildlife doesn't get you then the Celts will.

Oddly enough the same trip that had me rifling through someone else's email also saw me in a Perth emergency room - spider bite, best not to ask - as I sat there the police wheeled in a guy with a torn and bloody shirt and hands looking like they'd been dipped in red paint. "But I love her," he told the blue heelers. "Probably shouldn't have killed her then should you, mate?" was the reply. Story took an odder turn when I got back to the UK and found out I knew someone who was related to the murdered woman. Small. World.

But I digress... take a butchers at this latest slice of Aussie news:

A MAN who allegedly decapitated a 17-year-old boy 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.

An argument turned to head stomping which in turn led to literal back stabbing and the final flourish with the tomahawk.

"The c...'s psycho," Mr Jones told the two detectives. "He was just so calm about it. It was nothin' to him."

Mr Jones said that next morning, Mr Roughan hugged him, saying, "us Celts should stick together", a reference to their Celtic ancestry. Later that day, with the aid of two other men, Shepherd's body was bundled into the boot of a car and driven to a property at Dayboro, north of Brisbane.

Mr Roughan sat in the back of the car with Shepherd's head in a plastic bag on his lap, Mr Jones said. A shallow grave was dug on the property and the torso buried.

Mr Jones said Mr Roughan laughed as he "bowled the head up the hill, like it was a bowling ball". The hearing was told there were more than 100 knife wounds on Shepherd's body when it was found.

Strewth.

Accused 'used head as bowling ball' - The Advertiser