A man who admitted the 1988 killing of American mathematician Scott Johnson at a Sydney gay beat deserves no leniency, the dead man's brother has told a court. 9News
A man who admitted the 1988 killing of American mathematician Scott Johnson at a Sydney gay beat deserves no leniency and should face the longest time in jail, the dead man's brother has told a court.successfully overturning a prior guilty plea to the murder of JohnsonWhite surprised his own legal team by making an early plea of guilty to murder in what Steve Johnson said looked like a show of remorse."My sister Rosemary and I all felt some compassion because of his generous plea.
In the heat of an argument on December 10, 1988, White threw a punch at Johnson causing the 27-year-old to stagger backwards and fall to his death over a cliff at North Head, which was known at the time to be a gay beat. In her now overturned judgment on the murder conviction, Justice Helen Wilson found there was not enough evidence to show the attack was motivated because of Johnson's sexuality.
"It's a serious example of manslaughter entailing a significant degree of criminality," Hatfield said.
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