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She also said she applied more lenient sentencing patterns in place in New South Wales state in the late 1980s. Justice Helen Wilson said she did not find beyond reasonable doubt that the murder was a gay hate crime, an aggravating factor that would have led to a longer sentence. Scott White, 51, pleaded guilty in January and could have been sentenced to up to life in prison. A coroner in 2017 found a number of assaults, some fatal, where the victims had been targeted because they were thought to be gay. The death of mathematician Scott Johnson was initially called a suicide, but his family pressed for further investigation. He was staying at Noone’s parents’ Sydney home when he died.An Australian man was sentenced to 12 years and seven months in prison Tuesday for the 1988 murder of an American who fell off a Sydney cliff that was known as a gay meeting place. Scott Johnson was a doctoral student at Australian National University and lived in Canberra.
His lawyers will appeal that plea in the Court of Criminal Appeals and hope he will be acquitted at trial. In January, White yelled repeatedly in court during a pre-trial hearing that he was guilty, having previously denied the crime. White’s lawyer Belinda Rigg said her client was gay and had been concerned that his homophobic brother would find out. He said the gravity of the murder was significantly elevated because it was motivated by the victim’s sexuality. White had met Johnson in a nearby bar in suburban Manly and Johnson had stripped naked at the clifftop before he died, Hatfield said. Prosecutor Brett Hatfield said the precise details of the murder were not known and that White’s accounts had varied. “How could a community fail so spectacularly that they created boys capable of such horror?” she asked, referring to media reports of gay beatings in Sydney being described as a sport. Rebecca Johnson, a younger sister, said the police report of suicide “made no sense.” Rosemarie Johnson described the initial police failure to investigate Scott Johnson’s death as “indefensible and inhumane.”
Scott Johnson’s sisters Terry and Rebecca Johnson, his partner Michael Noone and Steve Johnson’s wife Rosemarie Johnson also gave victim impact statements. If he had grasped Scott’s hand and pulled him to safety, I would owe him everlasting gratitude,” the brother said, his voice choked with emotion.
“If he had turned himself in after his violent action, I would have had a little more sympathy. Steve Johnson said he appreciated White’s guilty plea. “This man (Scott Johnson) who once told me he could never hurt someone even in self-defense died in terror,” the brother added. Steve Johnson said in his victim impact statement that, “With a vicious push, Mr. She said she only became aware of a reward when the victim’s brother, Steve Johnson, doubled the sum in 2020. Under cross-examination, Helen White denied she had been aware of a AU$1 million reward for information on Johnson’s murder when she reported her former husband to police in 2019. “I said, ‘It is if you chased him,’” Helen White told the court. “The dumb (expletive) ran off the cliff.” “It’s not my fault,” Scott White allegedly replied. Helen White said she read a newspaper report in 2008 about Johnson’s death and asked her husband if he was responsible.
White’s former wife Helen White told the court that her then-husband “bragged” to their children of beating gay men at the clifftop well-known for gay meetups. White was charged in 2020 and police say the reward will likely be collected. His Boston-based brother Steve Johnson maintained pressure for further investigation and offered his own reward of 1 million Australian dollars ($704,000) for information.