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The family of murdered mathematician Scott Johnson have described the sentence given to his killer as fair, after a Sydney judge sentenced Scott Alan White to 12 years imprisonment over the 1988 killing. Johnson’s naked body was found at the base of cliff in Manly in 1988. His death was initially ruled a suicide despite […]
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4 May 2022 /
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A Sydney court has heard that the man found guilty of the 1988 killing of Scott Johnson used to brag about bashing gay men. Scott White surprised the court earlier this year when he confessed in court that he was guilty of the murder. His legal team subsequently tried to withdraw his guilty plea, but […]
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3 May 2022 |
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A Sydney court has found 50-year-old Scott White guilty of the 1988 ‘gay hate’ murder of Scott Johnson. The long running investigation took an unexpected twist on Monday when the accused man declared he was “guilty, guilty, guilty” during an arraignment hearing. Details of the case could not be reported due to a suppression order, […]
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13 Jan 2022 |
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Next week’s episode of Australian Story dives into the campaign that kept the case of Scott Johnson in the public eye, following his suspected suicide in 1988. When Johnson’s body was found in Sydney over 30 years ago, police quickly decided the young American man had taken his own life, but Scott’s brother was convinced the […]
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27 Aug 2020 |
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Sydney man Scott White, 49, has been charged with the cold-case murder of Scott Johnson. It has been reported that Police will allege that White met Johnson at a Manly pub in December 1988 and the two traveled to nearby area which was known to be an area where gay men met. Scott Johnson is […]
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13 May 2020 |
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Nicholas Parkhill, the CEO of ACON, has responded to the news that an arrest has been made in relation to the death Scott Johnson after three decades. While congratulating police on their work on the case, Parkhill highlights that many attacks on gay men occurred over the decades and many still remain unsolved. “While ACON […]
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12 May 2020 |
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The family of American man Scott Johnson have added an additional million dollars to the reward for information on the death of the American scholar. The 27-year-old’s naked body was found at the bottom of cliffs in Sydney over 30 years ago. The area above the cliffs on Manly’s North Head was known as a […]
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10 Mar 2020 |
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New South Wales police have announced a million dollar reward for information relating to the death of American mathematician Scott Johnson. The 27-year-old’s naked body was found at the bottom of cliffs in Sydney 30 years ago. The area above the cliffs on Manly’s North Head was known as a gay beat in the 1980’s. […]
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9 Dec 2018 |
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The New South Wales Coroner has handed down its findings in relation to the death of Scott Johnson in December 1988, declaring that he was most likely murdered in a gay-hate related crime. Johnson’s naked body was found at the bottom of a cliff in Manly, Sydney. Johnson had been out celebrating completing his PhD. […]
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30 Nov 2017 |
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Over twenty years ago Scott Johnson’s naked body was found at the bottom of a cliff in Sydney. Johnson had been out celebrating completing his PhD at Manly. The young mathematicians death was ruled a suicide but his family is not convinced. Tonight’s episode of ‘Australian Story’ on ABC investigates the circumstances around Johnson’s death […]
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11 Feb 2013 |
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