Scott White\u0027s admission comes three months after he had his conviction for murdering Scott Johnson overturned by an appeals court.
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He did not say what the new evidence was. But media have reported police had intercepted a prison phone call between White and a relative in October last year in which he confessed to striking his victim at the clifftop. A coroner ruled in 2017 that Scott Johnson “fell from the clifftop as a result of actual or threatened violence” by unknown assailants who “attacked him because they perceived him to be homosexual.”
Police have suggested the reward led to the arrest, saying they expected it would be collected after White’s conviction. In sentencing White, the judge said she did not find beyond reasonable doubt that the murder was a gay hate crime, which would have led to a longer prison term.Article content
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