A Cambridge man’s long fight for jtice for his gay brother who fell to his ath 35 years ago om a clifftop Sydney, Atralia, end Thursday when a man plead guilty to manslghter a urtroom New South Wal.
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- BROTHER OF GAY ANGELENO WHO FELL OM SYDNEY CLIFF 1988 SAYS KILLER SERV NO LENIENCY
- ATRALIAN ADMS TO PHG GAY US MATHEMATICIAN OFF CLIFF 1988 HATE-CRIME MURR
BROTHER OF GAY ANGELENO WHO FELL OM SYDNEY CLIFF 1988 SAYS KILLER SERV NO LENIENCY
It is important to note that the same-sex soc-sexual behavr observed the study is distct om homosexual behavr bee s motivatn and purpose are social, said Jean-Baptiste Le, who studi primate behavr at the Universy of Lethbridge Canada and was not volved the new rearch.
To be classified as te homosexual behavr, the form, motivatn and functn would all have to be sexual nature, he said. SYDNEY — A man who admted killg a Caltech graduate by punchg him at a gay meetg place on a Sydney clifftop 1988, g him to fall to his ath, serv no leniency and should receive the lengthit prison sentence possible, the victim’s brother said Phillip Whe, 52, appeared the New South Wal state Supreme Court for a sentencg hearg after pleadg guilty to manslghter the ath of mathematician Stt Johnson. 10, 1988, Whe said, he threw a punch at Stt Johnson, 27, g him to stagger backward and fall to his ath over a cliff at North Head, which was known at the time to be a meetg place for gay Angel-born Stt Johnson’s ath was ially lled a suici, but his fay prsed for further vtigatn.
ATRALIAN ADMS TO PHG GAY US MATHEMATICIAN OFF CLIFF 1988 HATE-CRIME MURR
Almost three s passed before New South Wal state police began vtigatg his ath as a spected anti-gay hate crime. A Cambridge man’s long fight for jtice for his gay brother who fell to his ath 35 years ago om a clifftop Sydney, Atralia, end Thursday when a man plead guilty to manslghter a urtroom New South Johnson watched a livtream of the proceedgs as Stt Whe admted to killg Stt Johnson, a nfsn that me three months after his nvictn on a murr charge om a prev trial was overturned by an Atralian appeals urt. Johnson had fought for years to overturn an ial fdg that his brother, a 27-year-old mathematician and doctoral stunt, had taken his own life 1988, a fall om a clifftop known as a gay meetg, who was arrted for the killg 2020, stunned his lawyers early last year when he plead guilty to a murr charge.
But a roner led 2017 that Stt Johnson “fell om the clifftop as a rult of actual or threatened vlence” by unknown assailants who “attacked him bee they perceived him to be homosexual. ”The roner also found that gangs of men roamed var Sydney lotns search of gay men to asslt, rultg the aths of some victims. A roner had ially led 1989 that the openly gay man had taken his own life, while a send roner 2012 uld not expla how he Johnson praised Atralian thori who have recently pursued the se recent years, cludg “the police vtigator that never gave up, even while the first nvictn was overturned” and who found the rerdg of Whe’s he said some Atralian police the late 1980s turned a bld eye to asslts and killgs of gay men.