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• HATE CRIME SYDNEY: FIVE THUGS BASH GAY MAN OUTSI UNIVERSAL NIGHTCLUB ON OXFORD STREET
• DEEP WATER: WERE 30 UNSOLVED SYDNEY ATHS REALLY GAY HATE CRIM?
• 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 LKSHAREREMEND FOR YOU
• SYDNEY'S GAY HATE CRIM STILL UNSOLVED 30 YEARS ON AS REPORT LLS FOR MORE VTIGATNS
• BONDI RISE MEMORIAL HONOURS VICTIMS OF SYDNEY GAY HATE CRIM DURG 1970S TO 1990S
• PH FOR QUIRY TO GAY HATE CRIM TO VTIGATE CLAIMS POLICE TURNED BLD EYE
• POLICE TO REVIEW 88 POSSIBLE GAY-HATE ATHS
• TWO TEEN BOYS CHARGED AFTER ALLEGEDLY ATTACKG GAY MEN SYDNEY
• MAN SPEAKS OUT ABOUT BOYIEND’S BTAL GAY BASHG SYDNEY
• GAY BASHGS, HOMOPHOBIA: FORMER P RELLS HORROR YEARS NSW POLICE FORCE
• NSW ERNMENT ANNOUNC QUIRY TO SYDNEY'S UNSOLVED GAY AND TRANSGENR HATE CRIM, MURRS

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

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.

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

'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.

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 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.

SYDNEY'S GAY HATE CRIM STILL UNSOLVED 30 YEARS ON AS REPORT LLS FOR MORE VTIGATNS

Risg star TV newsrear Ross Warren was probably phed of a cliff at Marks Park 1989, but his body was never found ROSS WARREN - TV prenter believed to have been phed off a cliff 1989- The 31-year-old news prenter om Wollongong ventured down to Sydney every fortnight to party at the cy's gay clubs. 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.

A new SBS vtigatn has unvered “ser mistak” were ma the ial vtigatns, cludg the misspellg of one ad man’s Johnson tells Guardian Atralia that applyg the FBI hate bias creria is unlikely to unver gay hate crim bee the strgent checklist requir s to be solved, perpetrators to be intified and their hatred of victims to be proclaimed. 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 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.

BONDI RISE MEMORIAL HONOURS VICTIMS OF SYDNEY GAY HATE CRIM DURG 1970S TO 1990S

"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". "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.

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. "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. "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.

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

"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. "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.

POLICE TO REVIEW 88 POSSIBLE GAY-HATE ATHS

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. 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.

TWO TEEN BOYS CHARGED AFTER ALLEGEDLY ATTACKG GAY MEN SYDNEY

”The notor former police officer, Roger Rogerson, was based at the statn at the time, but the now-faiar stori of protectn money, pay-offs om crime boss and ps on the take at Darlghurst, Surry Hills and Kgs Cross police statns have missed another, arguably more signifint story: how police were allegedly bashg gay men.

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.

MAN SPEAKS OUT ABOUT BOYIEND’S BTAL GAY BASHG SYDNEY

He has been wh the Victorian police for 29 years, pneerg work improvg practic for supportg sex crime victims the urt 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 2010. 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. Gangs like the Bondi Boys (otherwise known by their graffi tag PTK, or People that Kill) would prowl here, rryg out brazen acts of vlence; ’s likely that at least a few were serial offenrs; perpetrators of an anti-gay murr spree that swept across Sydney at the is no simple whodunn; volv a tangled tale of hate crim volvg multiple spects, gangs prisg up to 30 members, some of whom circulated among other gangs across Sydney, posg a dark mosaic of murr.

This is a lot more than n be said for the other men killed here, or for that matter, the vast majory of other murrs of gay men blightg Sydney at the a year to the day earlier, on another eezg night July 1989, Ross Warren, a handsome, charismatic weatherman and newsrear om WIN-TV Wollongong, vanished on this headland the early hours of a Saturday morng. Activists splattered red pat over 11 cy buildgs, cludg state parliament, the Downg Centre urt plex, and the headquarters of Channel 10 and The Sydney Morng Herald, then loted Jon Street, class were sprgg up ner-cy gyms and muny groups, and a group of gay volunteers – some of them former members of the army, navy and police force – began foot patrols along Oxford Street and Darlghurst Street foot patrol RtersStill, the murrs ntued.

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

In May, one of their own, social science teacher Wayne Tonks, was murred his Artarmon apartment by two young men (not his stunts) was outrage when the so-lled gay panic fence, a cel wrkle the law that enabled killers to claim an alleged sexual advance provoked them to a murro rage, was ed the murr trial of Christopher McKnon, arrted for killg Mrice McCarty, a technician wh the Atralian Ballet, April 1991.

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