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• GAY BASHGS, HOMOPHOBIA: FORMER P RELLS HORROR YEARS NSW POLICE FORCE
• HATE CRIME SYDNEY: FIVE THUGS BASH GAY MAN OUTSI UNIVERSAL NIGHTCLUB ON OXFORD STREET
• 'WRONGS OF THE PAST MA RIGHT': GAY BASHG VICTIM WEL NSW QUIRYTHE NSW ERNMENT WILL TABLISH A PARLIAMENTARY QUIRY TO GAY HATE CRIM SYDNEY DATG BACK ALMOST 50 YEARS.THE NSW ERNMENT HAS ANNOUNCED A PARLIAMENTARY QUIRY TO GAY HATE CRIM SYDNEY. SOURCE: GETTY IMAGALMOST 30 YEARS AFTER ALAN ROSENDALE WAS SAVAGELY BASHED ON A SYDNEY STREET BY A GROUP HE BELIEV WERE POLICE OFFICERS, HE'S HOPG A PARLIAMENTARY QUIRY TO GAY HATE CRIM N BRG SOME ANSWERS.THE QUIRY TO BE NDUCTED BY THE NSW SOCIAL ISSU COMMTEE, WILL VTIGATE HOW NSW POLICE HANDLED GAY HATE CRIM AND WHY THE STATE'S JTICE SYSTEM MAY NOT HAVE PROTECTED LGBTQI PEOPLE OR LAYED JTICE FOR THEM AND THEIR FAI.IT WAS AGREED ON WEDNDAY THE MTEE WILL VTIGATE THE ALMOST 90 GAY MURRS BETWEEN 1970 AND 2010 AND ALSO LL FOR PUBLIC SUBMISSNS OM VICTIMS AND THEIR FAI.MR ROSENDALE WAS BASHED BY A GROUP OF MEN ON SOUTH DOWLG STREET NEAR MOORE PARK 1989."I HAD A BROKEN NOSE AND BROKEN TEETH, I WAS MALY BASHED WH BS OF WOOD AROUND MY HEAD, WAS ALL BISED AND SWOLLEN," HE TOLD AAP."I PASSED OUT AS THEY WERE HTG ME ... I WOKE UP THE NEXT DAY A WARD AT ST VCENT'S."A WNS ME FORWARD YEARS LATER, SAYG HE HAD RERD THE NUMBER PLATE OF THE R THE MEN HAD CLIMBED OUT OF BEFORE THE BASHG."THAT R WAS REGISTERED TO THE NSW POLICE FORCE," MR ROSENDALE'S LAWYER NICK STEWART TOLD AAP."I'M HOPG THIS QUIRY WILL REVEAL A NCLIVE WAY WHO WAS THAT R."SHAYNE MALLARD, ERNMENT MP AND MTEE CHAIR. SOURCE: AAPHE SAID THE NSW POLICE FORCE AND JTICE SYSTEM HAD TO ANSWER FOR "SYSTEMATILLY IGNORG" LGBTQI PEOPLE FOR S."WE NEED THE HISTORY TERROGATED AND WE NEED THE WRONGS OF THE PAST MA RIGHT," MR STEWART SAID."WE REALLY WANT THE CRIMAL JTICE SYSTEM TO BE ASSSED FOR HOW THE LGBTI MUNY WAS TREATED."WHEN THEIR BODI WASHED UP ON THE SHORE OR WERE FOUND BLUDGEONED SOME APARTMENT, THEY WERE JT WRTEN OFF AS 'WHO GIV A S**T? HE'S ANOTHER POOFTER, HE'S AD'."LABOR'S PENNY SHARPE, WHO WILL BE A MEMBER OF THE QUIRY, SAID SHE HOPED ULD PROVI SOME ANSWERS TO VICTIMS.GOVERNMENT MP AND MTEE CHAIR SHAYNE MALLARD SAID THE FULL EXTENT OF SYDNEY'S GAY HATE CRIM HAD YET TO BE UNVERED."THIS QUIRY WILL NOT ONLY LOOK AT THE VLENT CRIM MTED AGAST THE LGBTIQ MUNY BUT WILL ALSO REVIEW CURRENT POLICI AROUND HATE CRIM TO TERME IF ANY SHORTGS HAVE BEEN ADDRSED," MR MALLARD SAID A STATEMENT.SHARE3 M READPUBLISHED 19 SEPTEMBER 2018 3:38PMUPDATED 19 SEPTEMBER 2018 4:29PMTAGSATRALIASOCIAL ISSUSHARE THIS WH FAY AND IENDSCOPY LKSHAREREMEND FOR YOU
• TWO TEEN BOYS CHARGED AFTER ALLEGEDLY ATTACKG GAY MEN SYDNEY
• NSW POLICE LOSE URT BID TO EXCLU STT JOHNSON KILLG OM GAY HATE QUIRY
• MAN SPEAKS OUT ABOUT BOYIEND’S BTAL GAY BASHG SYDNEY
• WHAT WILL THE NSW QUIRY TO HISTORIL GAY-HATE CRIM MEAN FOR THE BH?
• NSW ERNMENT ANNOUNC QUIRY TO SYDNEY'S UNSOLVED GAY AND TRANSGENR HATE CRIM, MURRS
• SYDNEY MAN GETS 12 YEARS FOR MURRG GAY AMERIN 1988
• TWENTY GAY MEN BASHED DAILY, NSW QUIRY TOLD
• PH FOR QUIRY TO GAY HATE CRIM TO VTIGATE CLAIMS POLICE TURNED BLD EYE
• MAN BASHED WATERLOO 'FOR BEG QUEER', ONE OF TWO SPECTED GAY BASHGS SYDNEY
• POLICE TO REVIEW 88 POSSIBLE GAY-HATE ATHS
• DEEP WATER: WERE 30 UNSOLVED SYDNEY ATHS REALLY GAY HATE CRIM?
• GAY BASHG ALLEGATNS AT NSW QUT

GAY BASHGS, HOMOPHOBIA: FORMER P RELLS HORROR YEARS NSW POLICE FORCE

After the victim, the edor of a gay newspaper, wrote a posive story about Higgbotham and the Darlghurst police, he was seen as some kd of avenger and protector for the gay muny by at least two senr staff at the statn, who subjected him to a soul-stroyg bullyg mpaign, at s nastit durg the ‘taskg para’ at the mencement of each shift, when jobs were alloted.

HATE CRIME SYDNEY: FIVE THUGS BASH GAY MAN OUTSI UNIVERSAL NIGHTCLUB ON OXFORD STREET

As early as next week, a cisn will be ma on whether a judicial quiry will proceed to the large number of unsolved s of spected gay and transgenr hate crime aths between 1970 and gby league footballer, now actor, Ian Roberts, says the horrific anti-gay crime spree rollg across Sydney the late 1980s and early 1990s ntributed to his cisn to postpone his g out as gay (he had planned to e out at the end of 1989 football season, but didn’t fally do so until 1994) Roberts layed g out partially bee of the gay bashgs and murrs occurrg Wolter Peeters“The public backlash agast soccer player Jt Fashanu (who me out October 1990) also ma me hate, ” says Roberts. The two young officers dutifully tracked down the intified attacker, who vlently risted arrt, handcuffed him and had him brought back to the statn a paddy wagon to be formally bashg victim happened to be the edor of a lol gay newspaper, who, obliv to the hard-re homophobia of the sergeant, wrote a posive story about Higgbotham and the Darlghurst police, highly unual at a time when distst between police and the gay muny was high. A young gay artist who was bashed unnsc by five thugs a spected 'hate crime' feared the group of homophob 'wanted to kill', 33, says he was kicked, punched and stomped on while tryg to avoid an altertn wh the group of unknown men outsi Universal nightclub on Sydney's Oxford Street at around 4am on June was shed to hospal where he later woke up not knowg where he was, bloodied, wh a broken nose and his ey swollen Police have lnched a major public appeal to track down the vlent men, releasg a seri of imag and CCTV footage of the five wanted over the btal attack.

'Dark secrets behd gay hate murrs of 23 men at Sydney's beach may be unlocked as killer of brilliant Amerin stunt phed off cliff 30 years ago utters stunng last mute nfsnBy Candace SuttonA 50-year-old man's shock last mute nfsn sayg he was 'guilty, guilty, guilty' urt this week to the 1988 murr of a US maths stunt has given police h hope of unlockg up to 23 'gay hate' Phillip Whe clared his guilt a spl send cisn at a pre-trial hearg, alarmg his lawyers who ma an unsuccsful attempt to have the plea now awas sentencg for phg 27-year-old Stt Johnson off a cliff at Manly's North Head, the brilliant PhD graduate's body found on the rocks below on December 10, apologised to his barrister Belda Rigg, sayg he appreciated her efforts 'but I n't handle ' and Jtice Helen Wilson nvicted Johnson had left his cloth neatly fold at the top of Blue Fish Pot, and spe a bungled police fdg the ath was a suici, his California-based brother Steve, never believed and pursued the se for three Johnson disvered that Blue Fish Pot, like the scene of other murrs the 1970s and 1980s, was a known as a beat among Sydney's gay muny. Three s on, the murr of brilliant maths stunt Stt Johnson (above) has been solved after a man nfsed to phg the 27-year-old off a clifftop gay beat 1988 Stt Phillip Whe (above, handcuffed) shocked even his own lawyers urt on Monday utterg 'guilty, guilty, guilty' to Johnson's murr and apologisg, sayg 'I n't handle 'It was Mr Johnson's termatn that part propelled police to re-exame Stt's ath, after a third qut to his ath fdg he was likely murred and leadg tectiv to arrt the begng of the 1970s to the end of the 1980s, up to 88 gay men Sydney's east and metro areas were documented to have disappeared spic circumstanc, or were the victims of were found sla parks, hom or washed up on the rocks at the bottom of Sydney clifftops.

'WRONGS OF THE PAST MA RIGHT': GAY BASHG VICTIM WEL NSW QUIRYTHE NSW ERNMENT WILL TABLISH A PARLIAMENTARY QUIRY TO GAY HATE CRIM SYDNEY DATG BACK ALMOST 50 YEARS.THE NSW ERNMENT HAS ANNOUNCED A PARLIAMENTARY QUIRY TO GAY HATE CRIM SYDNEY. SOURCE: GETTY IMAGALMOST 30 YEARS AFTER ALAN ROSENDALE WAS SAVAGELY BASHED ON A SYDNEY STREET BY A GROUP HE BELIEV WERE POLICE OFFICERS, HE'S HOPG A PARLIAMENTARY QUIRY TO GAY HATE CRIM N BRG SOME ANSWERS.THE QUIRY TO BE NDUCTED BY THE NSW SOCIAL ISSU COMMTEE, WILL VTIGATE HOW NSW POLICE HANDLED GAY HATE CRIM AND WHY THE STATE'S JTICE SYSTEM MAY NOT HAVE PROTECTED LGBTQI PEOPLE OR LAYED JTICE FOR THEM AND THEIR FAI.IT WAS AGREED ON WEDNDAY THE MTEE WILL VTIGATE THE ALMOST 90 GAY MURRS BETWEEN 1970 AND 2010 AND ALSO LL FOR PUBLIC SUBMISSNS OM VICTIMS AND THEIR FAI.MR ROSENDALE WAS BASHED BY A GROUP OF MEN ON SOUTH DOWLG STREET NEAR MOORE PARK 1989."I HAD A BROKEN NOSE AND BROKEN TEETH, I WAS MALY BASHED WH BS OF WOOD AROUND MY HEAD, WAS ALL BISED AND SWOLLEN," HE TOLD AAP."I PASSED OUT AS THEY WERE HTG ME ... I WOKE UP THE NEXT DAY A WARD AT ST VCENT'S."A WNS ME FORWARD YEARS LATER, SAYG HE HAD RERD THE NUMBER PLATE OF THE R THE MEN HAD CLIMBED OUT OF BEFORE THE BASHG."THAT R WAS REGISTERED TO THE NSW POLICE FORCE," MR ROSENDALE'S LAWYER NICK STEWART TOLD AAP."I'M HOPG THIS QUIRY WILL REVEAL A NCLIVE WAY WHO WAS THAT R."SHAYNE MALLARD, ERNMENT MP AND MTEE CHAIR. SOURCE: AAPHE SAID THE NSW POLICE FORCE AND JTICE SYSTEM HAD TO ANSWER FOR "SYSTEMATILLY IGNORG" LGBTQI PEOPLE FOR S."WE NEED THE HISTORY TERROGATED AND WE NEED THE WRONGS OF THE PAST MA RIGHT," MR STEWART SAID."WE REALLY WANT THE CRIMAL JTICE SYSTEM TO BE ASSSED FOR HOW THE LGBTI MUNY WAS TREATED."WHEN THEIR BODI WASHED UP ON THE SHORE OR WERE FOUND BLUDGEONED SOME APARTMENT, THEY WERE JT WRTEN OFF AS 'WHO GIV A S**T? HE'S ANOTHER POOFTER, HE'S AD'."LABOR'S PENNY SHARPE, WHO WILL BE A MEMBER OF THE QUIRY, SAID SHE HOPED ULD PROVI SOME ANSWERS TO VICTIMS.GOVERNMENT MP AND MTEE CHAIR SHAYNE MALLARD SAID THE FULL EXTENT OF SYDNEY'S GAY HATE CRIM HAD YET TO BE UNVERED."THIS QUIRY WILL NOT ONLY LOOK AT THE VLENT CRIM MTED AGAST THE LGBTIQ MUNY BUT WILL ALSO REVIEW CURRENT POLICI AROUND HATE CRIM TO TERME IF ANY SHORTGS HAVE BEEN ADDRSED," MR MALLARD SAID A STATEMENT.SHARE3 M READPUBLISHED 19 SEPTEMBER 2018 3:38PMUPDATED 19 SEPTEMBER 2018 4:29PMTAGSATRALIASOCIAL ISSUSHARE THIS WH FAY AND IENDSCOPY LKSHAREREMEND FOR YOU

TV newsrear Ross Warren's r keys were found below the cliff face of Marks Park, South Bondi (above), a gay beat where two hate gangs operated WIN TV prenter Ross Warren was a risg star who did not flnt his sexualy and was likely head for a discreet enunter which end his beg murredThe other was loosely known as the Tamarama Gang, wh three members aged 16 to 17, who met up at night on the Bondi-Tamarama 2.

AC/DC Manager Crisp Dye (above) was btally bashed near Oxford Street, Sydney, December 1993 and died hospal on Christmas Day, aged 41Martial arts expert Raymond Keam (left), 43, and Cyril Olsen (right), 61, were two more victims of spected gay bashgs 1987 and 1992 rpectively In 1985, 27-year-old French natnal Gil Mattai was livg was last seen walkg along the astal walkg track at Tamarama on September 15 that year by a neighbour; he was not reported missg until January 1987, martial arts expert Raymond Keam was bashed to ath at Alison Park, Randwick, and December 1988, William Allen was bashed to ath at Alexandria Park, Alexandria. Thai stunt Krchikorn Rattanajaturathaporn was phed off a sea cliff and died om tastrophic juri or drowng and three youths were nvicted of his murr French natnal Gil Mattai (left), 21, and John Rsell (right), 31, were both believed to have been killed at Marks Park, a clifftop and popular gay beat between Tamarama and BondiBee of Mr Johnson's eye-wnsg the killg, three youths were eventually nvicted of murr and each sentenced to 14 years Force Parabell was formed and 2018 livered a report of s vtigatn to 88 gay and lbian hate crim, which was tabled NSW report revealed chillg tails about those rryg out the attacks - who were maly men, but ocsnally clud women or teenage girls - who saw isolated and dark gay beats as the perfect place to gangs 'would move around om beat to beat' and their motivatn to attack might simply have been to obta money.

'Predatory gangs would go up and asslt victims, lookg to get $10, $20 or $30 to buy some alhol and have a good night out, ' a former NSW Police tective attackers wanted to portray themselv as 'alpha mal', some simply 'hated' gays and others had been molted as children, and stggled to differentiate between paedophil and gay the time, police often bshed off the aths of gay men as suicis, the lack of vtigatn more recently scribed by former NSW Police Mister David Elltt as 'offensive'. Former NSW Police Mister David Ellt said the historic failure to vtigate gay murrs was 'offensive' but that the state's tectiv 'don't do that anymore' Former NSW Police Commissner Mick Fuller said the force had let down the gay muny the past but police were now termed to solve ld se gay hate murrs'It was offensive bee was at a time when people were slightly dismissive of hate crim, and were too easy to try to make exc or to move on. Almost 30 years after Alan Rosendale was savagely bashed on a Sydney street by a group he believ were police officers, he's hopg a parliamentary quiry to gay hate crim n brg some quiry to be nducted by the NSW Social Issu Commtee, will vtigate how NSW Police handled gay hate crim and why the state's jtice system may not have protected LGBTQI people or layed jtice for them and their was agreed on Wednday the mtee will vtigate the almost 90 gay murrs between 1970 and 2010 and also ll for public submissns om victims and their Rosendale was bashed by a group of men on South Dowlg Street near Moore Park 1989.

TWO TEEN BOYS CHARGED AFTER ALLEGEDLY ATTACKG GAY MEN SYDNEY

Two teenage boys have been charged over a seri of alleged asslts central Sydney, which gay men were punched, kicked and pots:The alleged asslts took place weeks before Sydney's Gay and Lbian Mardi GrasOne cint was ptured on CCTV helpg police to track down two spectsTwo teenaged boys have been charged wh assltIn one cint, which took place on Febary 6, a 19-year-old man was allegedly beaten by one of the boys jt before 9pm Haymarket after tellg them he was say one of the teens wound down the wdow of a black Volkswagen Golf and asked the man if he was gay, to which he replied "y"'s alleged one of the boys jumped out of the r before punchg the 19-year-old the head and knockg him to the ground outsi the Oaks Sydney Castlereagh 's then alleged the man was repeatedly kicked, leavg him wh ser bisg and swellg to his say the victim's iend, a 20-year-old woman, was egged when she tried to tervene. In the latt velopment, Stt Phillip Whe plead guilty to throwg the punch that ultimately ed Johnson to fall to his month, jtice Robert Beech-Jon dismissed “what appears to be an absurd suggtn [by police] that Dr Johnson killed himself” when sentencg Whe to ne years past newsletter promotnafter newsletter promotnNSW police had argued Johnson’s ath was outsi the current quiry’s terms of reference on the basis the matter was not unsolved, the man rponsible for his ath intified as gay and a sentencg judge did not fd the ath to be motivated by gay the quiry’s missner, jtice John Sackar, on Tuday led s terms of reference were much wir and answers to qutns such as how and why Johnson died were still not urt did not make a fdg beyond reasonable doubt that Whe was motivated by gay hate, but did not le out the possibily, he is due to hand down his fal report next month. Payne’s se was one of the few known to have taken place a ral week’s announcement by the Perrottet ernment of a judicial quiry to historil gay and transgenr hate crim after multiple ternal NSW Police vtigatns, parliamentary quiri and arrts of s like Payne’s raise an unavoidable qutn: will the police take another look at the aths of almost nety men, and the circumstanc that led to many more attacks never beg reported?

High-profile metropolan vtigatns to the aths of Stt Johnson and Raymond Keam have led to charg beg laid; but for ral s, the first step still seems to be acceptg a hate crime may have taken out of the rerdsSue Thompson is a former police gay and lbian client nsultant who prevly worked as a se asssor for the NSW Victims of Crime Compensatn Tribunal.

Photograph: SuppliedUre reckons would have been “a brave ernment” that ignored the need for a judicial quiry to historil gay and transgenr hate crim, but says the terms of reference mt exame police rpons and muny attus to crime don’t get much more personal for openly gay Shayne Mallard, who endured a “small breakdown” durg the early days of the parliamentary quiry, when hearg evince led to unrstandg how an attack agast him on Oxford Street as a younger man was likely targeted homophobia. The NSW ernment has announced an quiry to btal hat crim mted agast members of Sydney's gay muny over 40 pots:The quiry will have the power to pel wns to prent evinceLiberal MP and gay man Shayne Mallard said was an emotnal dayHe said there was evince of at least 88 gay and transgenr murrsIn July 1989, 25-year-old newsrear Ross Warren disappeared om Sydney's eastern r had been parked on a street near the popular gay beat Marks Park, and his keys were found at the bottom of a cliff closed his se jt three weeks later, whout lotg his is spected to be among the dozens of men murred  Sydney through the 1980s and will form the basis of a judicial quiry announced by the NSW ernment on Wednday.

NSW POLICE LOSE URT BID TO EXCLU STT JOHNSON KILLG OM GAY HATE QUIRY

Legal observers say a judicial quiry to gay and transgenr hate crim New South Wal mt vtigate claims that police officers turned a bld eye or were volved the pots:The NSW ernment is settg up a judicial quiry to gay and transgenr hate crim between 1970 and 2010Former Supreme Court judge Anthony Whealy says the quiry needs Royal Commissn powersAlan Rosendale hop the quiry will vtigate whether police were volved his attack 30 years agoA seri of btal bashgs and murrs Sydney brought terror to the LGBTI muny for s, amid failur to properly vtigate. 47pmDetectiv are vtigatg two spected gay bashgs ner Sydney over the weekend, promptg a warng om police ls than a fortnight before the annual Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardis Gras NSW Police spokman on Sexualy and Genr Diversy, Supertennt Tony Cranll, said the occurrence of two "bias-related asslts" over one weekend was unmon, and was of ncern to of the victims, Dylan Soter, 22, said he was punched the face by a man who lled him "a queer" outsi his apartment block Waterloo the early hours of Sunday man had ially been tryg to help him, after he was earlier knocked unnsc by a group of young people and woke up Waterloo Soter, 22, suffered cuts, bisg and swellg to his face and say they are vtigatg that asslt, as well as a separate attack Surry Hills early on Saturday morng. In that earlier cint, two men were jured while walkg down Elizabeth Street what a police spokwoman scribed as a spected homophobic Soter suffered multiple facial juri and extensive bisg the attacks, and was too sore to speak to Fairfax boyiend, Darren Hedrman, 27, said the uple, om Ireland, had ved iends over to their apartment on Saturday night, after which his boyiend went outsi to make sure their guts had got a taxi Hedrman said he went to bed, expectg Mr Soter to follow him shortly, but he woke up an hour-and-a-half later to Mr Soter screamg for help.

MAN SPEAKS OUT ABOUT BOYIEND’S BTAL GAY BASHG SYDNEY

"I'm perfectly alright thank you, " Olsen told the ls than an hour later the gay man's body was found floatg the Olsen, 64, bashed, then fell to Rhcutters Bay and drowned, Augt 22, Rath was on var meditn for his nervo ndn, but a walk up to North Head Manly was often enough to lm 27-year-old would s on the cliff top, danglg his legs over the edge as poundg wav smashed onto the rocks below.

Between them, the amics me up wh the tally after reviewg media articl, urt rerds and, Ms Thompson's se, through terviews wh rearch was guid by possible gay-hate ditors such as offenr admissns, proximy to a known gay social venue or beat and the enzied nature of is ncern police circl that some s void of homophobic sentiment have ma the list.

In some s, the victim wasn't homosexual, may have mted suici or died near a known gay killer Mark Valera's victims - former Wollongong mayor Frank Arkell and David O'Hearn - were intified the rearch, as was murred paedophile Trevor murred O'Hearn at his Albn Park home 1998 before cuttg of his head and dismemberg his weeks later Valera, who fantasised about Satan, murred Arkell as he was awag trial on paedophilia charg.

WHAT WILL THE NSW QUIRY TO HISTORIL GAY-HATE CRIM MEAN FOR THE BH?

"There were a staggerg amount of aths and asslts volvg gay men public plac om the 1980s to the early 2000s, and we believe that many of the murrs were mischaracterised as suicis or misadventure, " ACON chief executive officer Nilas Parkhill NSW Coroner's Court is poised to hold a third qut July to the 1988 Manly cliff-ath of Stt fay lnched their own vtigatn to the 27-year-old's ath after a ronial fdg 2005 that two gay men and potentially a third were murred at the Bondi-Tamarama cliff tops the Johnson's fay don't believe he mted the other s to be reviewed is the murr of 35-year-old Wayne Tonks, who was found bashed and tied up wh a plastic bag over his head his Artarmon are also multiple "suicis" at Manly's North Head which rearch has raised qutns about, cludg Rath. Fairfax Media unrstands the remag s nnot be termed bee of other likely motiv, cludg is unrstood at least one se - based on anecdotal rmatn given to rearch - tectiv haven't been able to fd a ath certifite or ronial Surry Hills review will e 10 bias-ditors om the FBI over the next few months to asss whether the 88 s are gay hate procs will foc on the motive of an offenr and whether he or she is driven by a hatred for homosexualy rather than robbery or other h rmatn will be sent to the unsolved homici team for vtigatn. "Profsor Tomsen, who intified 74 anti-homosexual killgs between 1980 and 2000, was "uncerta" the police review would achieve s objective and qutned whether the FBI ditors were too whether the vtigatn uld challenge his rearch fdgs, Profsor Tomsen said: "I still know that I actually have a natnal and ternatnal reputatn and my work has all around the world.

NSW ERNMENT ANNOUNC QUIRY TO SYDNEY'S UNSOLVED GAY AND TRANSGENR HATE CRIM, MURRS

"Invtigators hope to have Operatn Parrabell fished the next few probable eight: Unsolved homici's likely gay-hate crimThe bashg of a band manager on a popular gay nightclub strip, a ath wrongly emed a fatal fall and a se where the alleged offenr got away on a 30 aths datg back to the 70's and suggted as unsolved s, NSW tectiv have intified eight that are probable gay-hate is unrstood the remag weren't termed bee other motiv uld have been at Unsolved Homici Team rried out a review of the 30 s after rearch, reported The Sydney Morng Herald recent years, suggted they may be unsolved gay hate crim.

Fairfax Media n reveal which eight s the tectiv agreed were probably gay-hate manager Crisp Dye was out wh iends Darlghurst and Surry Hills on December 22, 1993, celebratg the release of his first CD Taylor Square, jt off Oxford St, he was set upon by three youths, bash and robbed the early hours of the next attackers got away wh his wallet, suggtg that robbery was a motive.

SYDNEY MAN GETS 12 YEARS FOR MURRG GAY AMERIN 1988

But police spect the 64-year-old was the victim of a gay bashg before he fell the have also agreed that three high-profile aths or disappearanc om the Bondi-Tamarama cliff tops were probably gay hate John Rsell's body was found on the rocks below the scenic Bondi to Tamarama walk November ial police vtigatn put his ath down to "multiple juri he fell om a cliff" months earlier, keys belongg to TV prent Ross Warren were found on the rocks the same area, but his body was never 1985, enchman Gill Mattai, who enjoyed walks along the Bondi to Tamarama route, later reports surfaced about groups trawlg the Marks Park area the 80's lookg for gay men to bash and throw off the cliffs. In 2012 the New South Wal puty state roner Carmel Forb overturned the suici fdg but uld not terme how he police have formed Operatn Parrabell, a team of eight tectiv who will apply an FBI measure of hate bias – creria to terme if a crime is motivated by bias agast, for stance, sexual orientatn – to see if as many as 88 Sydney aths datg om the 1970s onward, cludg 30 unsolved s, were gay hate s were marked suici or e unknown, but past police nclns are now beg lled to qutn. Photograph: Sean O'Reilly/SBSThe ‘gay ATM’It was not until 2005, 17 years after Stt Johnson’s ath, that Steve realised his beloved brother might have died vlently: he had been sent a clippg about the vlent aths of three other gay men year the NSW senr puty state roner Jacquele Milledge found that the televisn newsrear Ross Warren, 25, and barman John Rsell, 31, had been murred two separate attacks 1989, most probably thrown off a cliff at Bondi’s Marks Park, which was known as a gay beat.

His brother says this was an implsible ncln: many gay men have told his vtigatn that the area had been a popular beat sce the 1960s but gay men were often too sred to report asslts bee “police treated them like perpetrators, not victims”’s vtigatn also clud terviewg former gay-bashg gang members, who had sentially operated wh impuny bee there was still a “lot of hatred towards gays”, he says. A man known for killg animals as a teenager has nied bashg an "Amerin faggot" around the same time a gay man's naked body was found at the bottom of a Sydney fishermen found the body of 27-year-old Amerin mathematician Stt Johnson at Manly's North Head December, least one person has told an qut they heard a group of people braggg about teens bashg an "Amerin faggot" they found masturbatg near a Manly beach around the time Johnson died.

TWENTY GAY MEN BASHED DAILY, NSW QUIRY TOLD

Another former skhead who admted to beg prent at two bashgs said the survivg alleged Manly basher was known to kill said he had not heard a mour the man had cut off ts' heads and put them a eezer, but was aware the teenager had microwaved his mother's budgerigar and "smacked around his sister" Johnson's belonggs were disvered 10 metr back om the cliff edge, not far om a beat where the qut prevly heard groups of "bashers" would set upon gay men.

PH FOR QUIRY TO GAY HATE CRIM TO VTIGATE CLAIMS POLICE TURNED BLD EYE

MAN BASHED WATERLOO 'FOR BEG QUEER', ONE OF TWO SPECTED GAY BASHGS SYDNEY

POLICE TO REVIEW 88 POSSIBLE GAY-HATE ATHS

DEEP WATER: WERE 30 UNSOLVED SYDNEY ATHS REALLY GAY HATE CRIM?

GAY BASHG ALLEGATNS AT NSW QUT