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Sydney murder conviction for gay American’s death overturned

By ROD McGUIRKNovember 18, 2022 GMT

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — An appeals court on Friday overturned the conviction of a man who temporarily admitted murdering an American who fell to his death in 1988 from a Sydney cliff top that was known as a gay meeting place.

Sydney man gets 12 years for murdering gay American in 1988

By ROD McGUIRKMay 3, 2022 GMT

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — An Australian man was sentenced to 12 years and seven months in prison Tuesday for the 1988 murder of an American who fell off a Sydney cliff that was known as a gay meeting place.

Sydney man admits pushing gay American off a cliff in 1988

By ROD McGUIRKMay 2, 2022 GMT

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A man told police he killed American mathematician Scott Johnson in 1988 by pushing the 27-year-old off a Sydney cliff in what prosecutors describe as a gay hate crime, a court heard on Monday.

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Sydney man admits gay hate murder of American 32 years ago

January 13, 2022 GMT

SYDNEY (AP) — An Australian man has pleaded guilty to murdering an American mathematician who fell from a Sydney cliff in 1988 in a gay hate crime that was dismissed by police at the time as suicide.

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