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'The hateful person who killed Scott has been walking free on this earth for the past 33 years. Sister Terry Johnson said Scott White had taken away decades from her brother's life. It comes as Mr Johnson's shattered family spoke of the horror, terror, tragedy and heartbreak that the past 34 years have brought. She also told the court White now identified as gay and had told police he went, at Mr Johnson's suggestion, to North Head on the night of his death.
White's intellectual impairments meant he had suffered stress, anxiety and panic attacks while in custody.ĭuring the 1980s, White was a gay man who had lived with his homophobic brother and alcoholic parents, Ms Rigg said. Scott Johnson's brother Steve, (right) arrived at the NSW Supreme Court on Monday with his sisters, Terry, left, and Rebecca and his wife Rosemarie (second right), where the family gave harrowing statementsĪt a hearing on Monday, White barrister's Belinda Rigg SC argued her client should receive a lesser sentence because he had only turned 18 at the time, saying that sentences for murder were significantly lower in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Originally from Los Angeles, Dr Johnson had been a doctoral student at the Australian National University in Canberra when he met White at a Manly hotel before the pair went to North Head. White, was facing life behind bars but received a reduced sentence based on his recent guilty plea, cognitive impairment and a dysfunctional upbringing. White was raised in a homophobic family before he came out as gay years later, the sentencing process revealed this week. Justice Wilson found the attack was not planned and could have been driven by 'self-loathing'. Mr Johnson must have been terrified, aware he would strike the rocks below and conscious of his fate,' she said. it may bring some peace' for Dr Johnson's grieving family, who have spent the last 34 years fighting for justice. Justice Wilson acknowledged the outcome would 'unlikely to end the grief. Justice Wilson found there was not enough evidence 'beyond reasonable doubt' to show the murder was a gay hate crime, however, because White had met Dr Johnson at the Brighton Hotel and the pair had willingly gone to the gay beat together. The fatal assault was done with reckless indifference to human life, with White throwing the punch near the unguarded edge of a high coastal cliff and then fleeing the scene without notifying the police after Dr Johnson disappeared over the edge. ' did a violent act and that act is the direct cause of Dr Johnson leaving the clifftop in terror,' the judge said. Scott Johnson's family out on a united front as they leave the NSW Supreme Court after Scott Phillip White was sentenced over the mathematician's murder on Tuesday
Justice Wilson found that he had punched Mr Johnson at North Head in a hostile act, causing the doctor to fall to his death. He showed no emotion in the court dock as Justice Helen Wilson handed down his sentence on Tuesday. White had previously indicated he would plead not guilty before changing his plea at a pre-trial hearing in January.
White will be eligible for parole in eight years in August 2030.įor more than three decades, Mr Johnson's death was dismissed by police as suicide before White was charged with murder in 2020 after a lengthy campaign by his loved ones and the media. Scott Phillip White, 51, was jailed for a maximum of 12 years and seven months on Tuesday over the murder of Scott Johnson, 27, whose naked body was found at the bottom of a cliff on Sydney's northern beaches in December 1988. A man who recently admitted murdering an American mathematician found at the bottom of a Sydney cliff 34 years ago in a gay hate crime has come out as gay himself, a court has heard.