Australian jailed over cold case murder of gay American

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A Sydney court has sentenced an Australian man to 12 years in jail over the murder of a gay Mathematician in 1988, in a case that highlighted a series of homophobic attacks from that era. theSun theSundaily crime crimewatch Australia

: An Australian court sentenced a man to 12 years behind bars Tuesday over the murder of a gay American in Sydney three decades ago, in a case that highlighted a series of homophobic attacks from that era.

Johnson’s death was initially ruled a suicide, but a 2017 inquest found it was likely the 27-year-old had been pushed over the cliff or fell while trying to escape assailants. “The offender did a violent act, and that act was the direct cause of Dr Johnson leaving the clifftop in terror and dying on the rocks at its base,“ Justice Helen Wilson said in her sentencing.

“It is tragic that Mr Johnson and all of Dr Johnson’s loved ones have had to endure this bitter pain. The sentence to be imposed upon the offender is unlikely to end that grief; perhaps it may bring some peace,“ Wilson said.

 

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