A man shouted his guilt in court 32 years after murdering a gay mathematician on an Australian cliff in what was a hate crime.
Last Thursday, a judge of the Supreme Court of the state of New South Wales accepted Scott White’s guilty plea and overruled his attorneys’ objections.
In 2018, Scott White was accused of murdering Scott Johnson, of 27 years old, born in Los Angeles, whose nude body was found at the base of the North Head cliff on December 8, 1988.
In the beginning, police had concluded that Johnson, who was a doctoral student at the Australian National University and living in Canberra, had committed suicide. That was despite the discovery that his wallet was missing. on his clothes, which were carefully d oblada near the top of the cliff.
A year later, a coronary inquest, a court-like procedure conducted after unusual deaths, ruled that Johnson, openly homosexual, had taken his own life. In 2012, a second coroner in 2012 could not explain how he died.
The victim’s family requested a third inquest, and State Coroner Michael Barnes ruled in 2017 that Johnson “fell from the top of the cliff as a result of actual or threatened violence by unidentified persons who attacked him because they perceived him as homosexual”.
The prosecutor found something that would turn him around In the case, he discovered that gangs of men were going through various places in Sydney looking for homosexual men to assault them, which resulted in the death of some victims. Others were robbed.
In 2018, a new police investigation offered a reward of 1 million Australian dollars ( $731,000 ) for information, and Johnson’s older brother, Boston IT entrepreneur Steve Johnson, matched that reward offer at 2020.
Two months after the reward was doubled, White was arrested at his home in Sydney. Police said at the time that the reward aided his advance and that an anonymous informant would be eligible for the reward after White was convicted.
White will be sentenced on May 2 and faces a possible life sentence.
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