A British man jailed for the gruesome murder of a homeless teenager in Australia has been deported back to the UK.

Christopher Clark Jones, 36, was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2007 for the murder of 17-year-old Morgan Shepherd in a trial that shocked Australia.

The teenager was attacked by Jones and a mutual friend, James Roughan, and stabbed 133 times before being decapitated, a court heard.

His body was found in a shallow grave in bushland north of Brisbane in April 2005.

Jones was deported back to Britain this week on a private jet chartered by the Australia Border Force (ABF) after being released on parole earlier this month.

He would have been on parole for life if he had remained in Australia, which would have involved regular surveillance from police.

Now that he has been deported, he will only be placed on an offenders register in the UK, according to Australia media reports.

Jones never applied for Australia citizenship and his visa was cancelled before his parole by Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton, on character grounds.

“This particularly abhorrent case is one that shocked the Queensland community when it occurred,” ABF acting commander for enforcement command Dean Church said in a statement.

“Non-citizens who commit crimes have no right to remain in Australia.”

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