Detectiv are vtigatg two spected gay bashgs ner Sydney over the weekend, promptg a warng om police ls than two weeks before the annual Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardis Gras Para tak to the cy's streets." name="scriptn
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- PH FOR QUIRY TO GAY HATE CRIM TO VTIGATE CLAIMS POLICE TURNED BLD EYE
- SYDNEY GAY BASHG WNS CHANG SOME OF HIS EVINCEA WNS WHO 2013 TOLD NSW POLICE ABOUT A SPATE OF GAY HATE BASHGS SYDNEY'S NORTH THE LATE 1980S HAS SCE CHANGED SOME OF HIS EVINCE.STT JOHNSON'S FAY BELIEVE THEIR SON WAS A VICTIM OF A "GAY-HATE" MURR SYDNEY 1988. (AAP) SOURCE: NSW POLICEA WNS HAS WALKED BACK THE EVINCE HE GAVE NSW POLICE 2013 ABOUT GAY HATE BASHGS ON SYDNEY'S NORTHERN BEACH, SAYG THEY WEREN'T AS NUMERO OR AROUND NORTH HEAD WHERE A YOUNG AMERIN WAS FOUND AD 1988.HE HAD TOLD NSW TECTIV 2013 A GROUP OF MEN MTED MORE THAN 20 GAY HATE ASSLTS AND ROBBERI ON SYDNEY'S NORTHERN BEACH BETWEEN 1986 AND 1988 AT VAR LOTNS WH UP TO FIVE OCCURRG AT NORTH HEAD.THE BODY OF 27-YEAR-OLD AMERIN MATHEMATICIAN STT JOHNSON WAS FOUND AT THE BOTTOM OF THE CLIFF AT MANLY'S NORTH HEAD DECEMBER 1988.THE POLICE SOURCE, WHO N'T BE NAMED FOR LEGAL REASONS, THIS WEEK GAVE EVINCE BEHD CLOSED DOORS AT THE THIRD RONIAL QUT TO MR JOHNSON'S ATH.IN A SUMMARY OF THE SOURCE'S EVINCE, RELEASED ON FRIDAY EVENG, 'S BEEN SUGGTED THE NORTH HEAD ASSLTS TOOK PLACE AN AREA OF SCB WH CLEARGS.ONE OF THE MEMBERS OF THE GROUP SOMETIM ACTED AS "BA" TO MAKE NTACT WH A VICTIM."THE RMATN DID NOT SUGGT THAT ANY OF THE GROUP HAD EVER PHED ANYONE OFF A CLIFF," THE SUMMARY OF THE EVINCE STAT.IN 2014, THE SOURCE TOLD POLICE THE NUMBER OF TIM THE GROUP TRAVELLED TO NORTH HEAD TO M GAY-HATE CRIM WAS FEWER THAN HE HAD DITED 2013.THE SOURCE 2017 "HAS SAID THAT SOME OF THE EARLIER RMATN WAS NOT ACCURATE", THE SUMMARY OF HIS EVINCE STAT.THE SOURCE NOW CLAIMS THE ASSLTS AND ROBBERI SAID TO HAVE BEEN MTED THE LATE 1980S AT NORTH HEAD "HAD FACT BEEN MTED AT EHER REEF BEACH OR AT AN AREA OF NORTH HEAD THAT WAS DIFFERENT TO THE AREA HE HAD PREVLY DITED TO POLICE".SHARE2 M READPUBLISHED 24 JUNE 2017 8:22AMUPDATED 24 JUNE 2017 11:19AMSOURCE: AAPTAGSCRIMENEW SOUTH WALSYDNEYSHARE THIS WH FAY AND IENDSCOPY LKSHARETOPICS
- MAN BASHED WATERLOO 'FOR BEG QUEER', ONE OF TWO SPECTED GAY BASHGS SYDNEY
- SYDNEY'S GAY HATE CRIM STILL UNSOLVED 30 YEARS ON AS REPORT LLS FOR MORE VTIGATNS
- '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 LKSHARETOPICS
PH FOR QUIRY TO GAY HATE CRIM TO VTIGATE CLAIMS POLICE TURNED BLD EYE
Legal observers say a judicial quiry to gay and transgenr hate crim NSW mt vtigate claims that police officers turned a bld eye or were volved the attacks. * gay bashing in sydney *
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. "It was a night out for certa sectns of the muny to go and bash a few gays after beg the pub, " John Agi SC told 7. " Mr Agi reprented the fay of Stt Johnson, whose ath 1988 is now beg treated as a gay hate murr.
The Perrottet ernment will set up a judicial quiry to gay and transgenr hate crim between 1970 and 2010, followg the remendatns of a parliamentary mtee that found NSW Police were different to such crim and failed to properly vtigate them at the time. (ABC News: Jerry Rickard)Gay men would often vanish, acrdg to activist and historian Garry Wotherspoon. That era, asslts on gay people were monplace, wh reports of more than 20 cints a day.
"I was first bashed 1969 when I me out of a gay dance Petersham, " Mr Wotherspoon said. "Gay crim were sometim not treated serly, where vtigatns were not done aquately, and I thk that will she a bright light on those ficienci, " he told 7. "If there are servg officers who turned a bld eye to what was happeng, or had any hand the missn of hate crim agast gay people, I thk they should have every reason to fear this quiry.
SYDNEY GAY BASHG WNS CHANG SOME OF HIS EVINCEA WNS WHO 2013 TOLD NSW POLICE ABOUT A SPATE OF GAY HATE BASHGS SYDNEY'S NORTH THE LATE 1980S HAS SCE CHANGED SOME OF HIS EVINCE.STT JOHNSON'S FAY BELIEVE THEIR SON WAS A VICTIM OF A "GAY-HATE" MURR SYDNEY 1988. (AAP) SOURCE: NSW POLICEA WNS HAS WALKED BACK THE EVINCE HE GAVE NSW POLICE 2013 ABOUT GAY HATE BASHGS ON SYDNEY'S NORTHERN BEACH, SAYG THEY WEREN'T AS NUMERO OR AROUND NORTH HEAD WHERE A YOUNG AMERIN WAS FOUND AD 1988.HE HAD TOLD NSW TECTIV 2013 A GROUP OF MEN MTED MORE THAN 20 GAY HATE ASSLTS AND ROBBERI ON SYDNEY'S NORTHERN BEACH BETWEEN 1986 AND 1988 AT VAR LOTNS WH UP TO FIVE OCCURRG AT NORTH HEAD.THE BODY OF 27-YEAR-OLD AMERIN MATHEMATICIAN STT JOHNSON WAS FOUND AT THE BOTTOM OF THE CLIFF AT MANLY'S NORTH HEAD DECEMBER 1988.THE POLICE SOURCE, WHO N'T BE NAMED FOR LEGAL REASONS, THIS WEEK GAVE EVINCE BEHD CLOSED DOORS AT THE THIRD RONIAL QUT TO MR JOHNSON'S ATH.IN A SUMMARY OF THE SOURCE'S EVINCE, RELEASED ON FRIDAY EVENG, 'S BEEN SUGGTED THE NORTH HEAD ASSLTS TOOK PLACE AN AREA OF SCB WH CLEARGS.ONE OF THE MEMBERS OF THE GROUP SOMETIM ACTED AS "BA" TO MAKE NTACT WH A VICTIM."THE RMATN DID NOT SUGGT THAT ANY OF THE GROUP HAD EVER PHED ANYONE OFF A CLIFF," THE SUMMARY OF THE EVINCE STAT.IN 2014, THE SOURCE TOLD POLICE THE NUMBER OF TIM THE GROUP TRAVELLED TO NORTH HEAD TO M GAY-HATE CRIM WAS FEWER THAN HE HAD DITED 2013.THE SOURCE 2017 "HAS SAID THAT SOME OF THE EARLIER RMATN WAS NOT ACCURATE", THE SUMMARY OF HIS EVINCE STAT.THE SOURCE NOW CLAIMS THE ASSLTS AND ROBBERI SAID TO HAVE BEEN MTED THE LATE 1980S AT NORTH HEAD "HAD FACT BEEN MTED AT EHER REEF BEACH OR AT AN AREA OF NORTH HEAD THAT WAS DIFFERENT TO THE AREA HE HAD PREVLY DITED TO POLICE".SHARE2 M READPUBLISHED 24 JUNE 2017 8:22AMUPDATED 24 JUNE 2017 11:19AMSOURCE: AAPTAGSCRIMENEW SOUTH WALSYDNEYSHARE THIS WH FAY AND IENDSCOPY LKSHARETOPICS
A wns who 2013 told NSW Police about a spate of gay hate bashgs Sydney's north the late 1980s has sce changed some of his evince. * gay bashing in sydney *
A wns has walked back the evince he gave NSW Police 2013 about gay hate bashgs on Sydney's northern beach, sayg they weren't as numero or around North Head where a young Amerin was found ad had told NSW tectiv 2013 a group of men mted more than 20 gay hate asslts and robberi on Sydney's northern beach between 1986 and 1988 at var lotns wh up to five occurrg at North body of 27-year-old Amerin mathematician Stt Johnson was found at the bottom of the cliff at Manly's North Head December police source, who n't be named for legal reasons, this week gave evince behd closed doors at the third ronial qut to Mr Johnson's a summary of the source's evince, released on Friday eveng, 's been suggted the North Head asslts took place an area of scb wh of the members of the group sometim acted as "ba" to make ntact wh a victim.
"The rmatn did not suggt that any of the group had ever phed anyone off a cliff, " the summary of the evince 2014, the source told police the number of tim the group travelled to North Head to m gay-hate crim was fewer than he had dited source 2017 "has said that some of the earlier rmatn was not accurate", the summary of his evince source now claims the asslts and robberi said to have been mted the late 1980s at North Head "had fact been mted at eher Reef Beach or at an area of North Head that was different to the area he had prevly dited to police". 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 BASHED WATERLOO 'FOR BEG QUEER', ONE OF TWO SPECTED GAY BASHGS SYDNEY
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Police are reviewg CCTV footage of that said the two asslts are not believed to have been rried out by the same asslts e ls than two weeks before tens of thoands of people are expected crowd to the cy for the Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardis Gras Para along Oxford Street on March 5. The thumpg gay clubs sttered up and down Sydney's unofficial queer headquarters were still thrivg — but the late '80s, there was a fear the air.
SYDNEY'S GAY HATE CRIM STILL UNSOLVED 30 YEARS ON AS REPORT LLS FOR MORE VTIGATNS
Almost 30-years after he was attacked what he believ was a gay hate crime, Alan Rosendale is still lookg for answers — and a new report may help him fd them. * gay bashing in sydney *
A spate of gay bashgs — as well as the horrific AIDS epimic — had put a dark cloud over the rabow that ually l up the area.
It was Moore Park — a well-known meetg place for gay men lookg for sex. A chance meetgMr Rosendale and Mr Sim met for the first time Rosendale had read Mr Sim' rellectns of that night, a newspaper article about gay hate crim.
"In light of today's changed attus, the AIDS Council of NSW (ACON) has released a landmark report llg for further vtigatns to at least 30 unsolved gay hate Johnson was among dozens of gay men who were killed or disappeared at var lotns Sydney durg the 1980s and s, NSW Police were adamant that the Amerin killed himself, until a third ronial qut 2017 led a gay hate CEO Nick Parkhill scribed the lg as a "watershed moment" for the loved on and victims of "a dark chapter Sydney's history" remendatns om the ronial qut clud:An pennt vtigatn or parliamentary quiry to the police rponse to the gay hate crim that occurred last centuryA formal apology om the state ernment on behalf of the parliament and om NSW PoliceA special taskforce dited to vtigatg historil gay hate murrs and unsolved crimA dited unsellg service for the victims and fai of those who lost loved on bee of homophobiaHistory mt never repeatMr Parkhill said homophobia was mon among all ernment agenci at the time of the attacks, not jt the police. ACON chief executive Nick Parkhill(ABC News: Mark Reddie)"There is a ncern, then and now, that the police didn't do enough to rpond and therefore we really need an external body to vtigate the unsolved s, " he years ago, NSW Police lnched Operatn Parabel to vtigate the police handlg of the gay hate crim.
'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 LKSHARETOPICS
"One of our lead vtigators is a gay and lbian liaison officer, " Assistant Police Commissner Cranll said. "So, why would you let the police vtigate their own poor rponse to the gay hate crim.
"We owe to the younger generatn of gay men and women to make sure stutnal homophobia of that enormy don't happen aga.
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. Government MP and mtee chair Shayne Mallard said the full extent of Sydney's gay hate crim had yet to be unvered.