Gay hate 殺し屋 収容する／認めるs he's homosexual: Father-of-six who 殺人d mathematician comes out as he's locked up for 12 years after 事例／患者 went 未解決の for three １０年間s

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A man who recently 認める 殺人ing an American mathematician 設立する at the 底（に届く） of a Sydney cliff 34 years ago in a gay hate 罪，犯罪 has come out as gay himself, a 法廷，裁判所 has heard.?

Scott Phillip White, 51, was 刑務所，拘置所d for a 最大限 of 12 years and seven months on Tuesday?over the 殺人 of Scott Johnson, 27, whose?naked 団体／死体 was 設立する at the 底（に届く） of a cliff on Sydney's northern beaches in?December 1988.

White will be 適格の for 仮釈放（する） in eight years in August 2030.??

For more than three １０年間s, Mr Johnson's death was 解任するd by police as 自殺?before White was 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金d with 殺人 in 2020 after a 非常に長い （選挙などの）運動をする by his loved ones and the マスコミ.?

White had 以前 示すd he would 無罪を主張する before changing his 嘆願 at a pre-裁判，公判 審理，公聴会 in January. He showed no emotion in the 法廷，裁判所 ドッキングする／減らす／ドックに入れる as 司法（官） Helen Wilson 手渡すd 負かす／撃墜する his 宣告，判決 on Tuesday.

司法（官） Wilson 設立する that he had punched Mr Johnson at North 長，率いる in a 敵意を持った 行為／法令／行動する, 原因（となる）ing the doctor to 落ちる to his death.

Scott Johnson's 団体／死体 was 設立する at the 底（に届く） of a cliff on Sydney's northern beaches in 1988

?Scott Phillip White (pictured) will spend at least eight years behind 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業s over Scott Johnson's 殺人 34 years ago

Scott Johnson's family out on a 部隊d 前線 as they leave the NSW 最高裁判所 after?Scott Phillip White was 宣告，判決d over the mathematician's 殺人 on Tuesday?

'[White] did a violent 行為／法令／行動する and that 行為／法令／行動する is the direct 原因（となる） of Dr Johnson leaving the clifftop in terror,' the 裁判官 said.

The 致命的な 強襲，強姦 was done with 無謀な 無関心／冷淡 to human life, with White throwing the punch 近づく the unguarded 辛勝する／優位 of a high 沿岸の cliff and then 逃げるing the scene without 通知するing the police after Dr Johnson disappeared over the 辛勝する／優位.

司法（官） Wilson 設立する there was not enough 証拠 'beyond reasonable 疑問' to show the 殺人 was a gay hate 罪，犯罪, however, because White had met Dr Johnson at the Brighton Hotel and the pair had willingly gone to the gay （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 together.

司法（官） Wilson 定評のある the 結果 would 'ありそうもない to end the grief ... it may bring some peace' for Dr Johnson's grieving family, who have spent the last 34 years fighting for 司法（官）.

'It was a terrible death ... Mr Johnson must have be en terrified, aware he would strike the 激しく揺するs below and conscious of his 運命／宿命,' she said.?

司法（官） Wilson 設立する the attack was not planned and could have been driven by 'self-loathing'.

White was raised in a homophobic family before he （機の）カム out as gay years later, the 宣告，判決ing 過程 明らかにする／漏らすd this week.?

White, was 直面するing life behind 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業s but received a 減ずるd 宣告，判決 based on his 最近の 有罪の 嘆願, cognitive impairment and a dysfunctional しつけ.

初めは from Los Angeles, Dr Johnson had been a doctoral student at the Australian 国家の University in Canberra when he met White at a?Manly hotel before the pair went to North 長，率いる.

Johnson's 団体／死体 was 設立する at the 底（に届く） of the North 長，率いる Manl y Walk in Sydney in 1988 and for nearly three １０年間s his death was 解任するd by police as a 自殺

Scott Johnson's brother Steve, (権利) arrived at the NSW 最高裁判所 on Monday with his sisters, Terry, left, and Rebecca and his wife Rosemarie (second 権利), where the family gave harrowing 声明s

At a 審理，公聴会 on Monday, White barrister's Belinda Rigg SC?argued her （弁護士の）依頼人 should receive a lesser 宣告，判決 because he had only turned 18 at the time, 説 that 宣告，判決s for 殺人 were 意味ありげに lower in the late 1980s and 早期に 1990s.

White's 知識人 impairments meant he had 苦しむd 強調する／ストレス, 苦悩 and panic attacks while in 保護／拘留.?

During the 1980s, White was a gay man who had lived with his homophobic brother and アル中患者 parents, Ms Rigg said.

She also told the 法廷，裁判所 White now identified as gay and had told police he went, at Mr Johnson's suggestion, to North 長，率いる on the night of his death.

It comes as Mr Johnson's 粉々にするd family spoke of the horror, terror, 悲劇 and heartbreak that the past 34 years have brought.

Sister Terry Johnson said Scott White had taken away １０年間s from her brother's life.

'The hateful person who killed Scott has been walking 解放する／自由な on this earth for the past 33 years. Thirty-three years that he took away from my baby brother. I believe [White] deserves life in 刑務所，拘置所.'

Another sister Rebecca Johnson talked about how society in the 1980s had also let 負かす／撃墜する 十代の少年少女s who thought 暴力／激しさ against gay men was 許容できる.

'Parents, brothers and sisters, teachers and classmates, 当局, culture, somehow Mr White's world 増強するd that 暴力／激しさ and even 殺人，大当り was 承認する and maybe that gay men weren't human. That is a 深遠な 悲劇,' she said on Monday.

'The wailing is a reliving, it's a howl of death and despair and loss and grief that signifies that a piece of us has 出発／死d. It never goes away,' Steve Johnson (pictured 権利 with Scott) told the 法廷，裁判所 about his brother's death

Scott Johnson's family?have spent the last 34 years fighting for 司法（官）. Pictured is his brother Steve hugging his wife outside the NSW 最高裁判所 on Monday

Brother Steve Johnson 述べるd the death as too awful to be true, 説 his mother had 反応する ed with a wailing cry at the news.

'The wailing is a reliving, it's a howl of death and despair and loss and grief that signifies that a piece of us has 出発／死d. It never goes away.'

Dr Johnson's partner Michael Noone also gave a 声明 述べるing the sheer horror of receiving a call from the police about the death of a loved one.

The 犠牲者 声明s were heard after White's former partner Helen White took the stand and 述べるd a conversation with him in December 1998 about his 'poofter bashing' of the 1980s.

'He said the only good poofter is a dead poofter, to which I said, 'So you threw him off the cliff'. And he said, 'It's not my fault the dumb c*** ran off the cliff',' she said.

Ms White 否定するd suggestions by White's barrister that she had only gone to police because of a $1 million reward 申し込む／申し出d in 2018 for （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） about Mr Johnson's death, and 拒絶するd （人命などを）奪う，主張するs she had made up the conversations with her then husband.

The 起訴 pointed to the 真面目さ of the offence, 説 it was 的d に向かって the 犠牲者's sexuality.

'This was a 墓／厳粛／彫る／重大な and serious 殺人 which entailed a high degree of criminality,' 栄冠を与える 検察官，検事 Brett Hatfield said.

Scott Johnson, a Los Angeles native, was a doctoral student at the Australian 国家の University in Canberra before 存在 killed?

Speaking after Monday's 審理，公聴会, Steve Johnson said that while giving their 声明s in 法廷，裁判所 was emotional for the family, it was a chance to look White 権利 in the 注目する，もくろむs.

'I got to tell [White] what my brother was like. I got to tell him how it felt to hear that he was dead ... I have to think it sunk in. He watched and listened.'

White's defence team unsuccessfully tried to 逆転する the 有罪の 嘆願 the day it was made.?

An 控訴，上告 of White's 有罪の判決 was とじ込み／提出するd last month and could be heard 法廷，裁判所 of 犯罪の 控訴，上告 'に向かって the end of this year', 司法（官） Wilson said.

While the 初期の police 検死 in 1989 設立する Mr Johnson's death was a 自殺, the 事例／患者 was 再開するd in 2012.?

Another 検死 returned an open finding in June 2012, but a third in 2017 設立する Mr Johnson fell from the clifftops as a result of 暴力／激しさ by an 身元不明の 攻撃者 who perceived him to be gay.

White had met Johnson in a nearby 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業 in a Sydney 郊外 and Johnson had stripped naked at the clifftop before he died, によれば 検察官，検事s