Australian man pleads guilty to murdering American Scott Johnson in 1988 gay hate crime
by Associated Press in Sydney from World news | The Guardian on (#5TZFX)
Scott White yelled in court during a pre-trial hearing on Monday that he was guilty, having previously denied the crime
An Australian man has pleaded guilty to murdering a US mathematician who fell from a Sydney cliff in 1988 in a homophobic hate crime that was dismissed by police at the time as suicide.
Scott White was charged in 2020 with murdering 27-year-old Los Angeles-born Scott Johnson, whose naked body was found at the base of North Head cliff on 8 December 1988.
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