CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — An Australian man was sentenced to 12 years and seven months in prison on Tuesday for the 1988 murder of an American who fell from a Sydney cliff known as a gay hangout.
Mathematician Scott Johnson’s death was initially ruled a suicide, but his family have been pushing for a further investigation. A coroner in 2017 uncovered a number of assaults, some fatal, where victims were targeted because they were thought to be gay.
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