Bondi Rise memorial honours victims of Sydney gay hate crim durg 1970s to 1990s

BONDI RISE MEMORIAL HONOURS VICTIMS OF SYDNEY GAY HATE CRIM DURG 1970S TO 1990S
DEEP WATER: WERE 30 UNSOLVED SYDNEY ATHS REALLY GAY HATE CRIM?
NOW THEY'RE 40-SOMETHG, WILL BONDI'S GAY-BASHG GANGS DOB KILLERS FOR $100,000
BLOODSPORT: THE BONDI GAY MURRS
AUTHOR DUNN MCNAB HOP ONE OF THE GAY HATE CRIME GANG MEMBERS FALLY SPEAKS OUT
STT JOHNSON: MAN NFS TO 1988 GAY HATE MURR
THE BEAT: A TE ACUNT OF THE BONDI GAY MURRS
INVTIGATN REVEALED EVIL AND VLENCE DIRECTED AT GAY MEN ACROSS SYDNEY
BLOOD SPORT - THE BONDI GAY MURRS
NSW ERNMENT ANNOUNC QUIRY TO SYDNEY'S UNSOLVED GAY AND TRANSGENR HATE CRIM, MURRS
NSW QUIRY TO VTIGATE 40 YEARS OF UNSOLVED SYDNEY GAY HATE ATHS
‘HE’D DO AGA TODAY’: CONVERSATNS WH THE GAY-HATE WORKWHILE REARCHG FOR THE SBS DOCUMENTARY 'DEEP WATER: THE REAL STORY', JOURNALIST RICK FENELEY HAD SOME DISTURBG ENUNTERS.DAVID MCMAHON PED AN ATTACK 1989. SOURCE: SBSIN FEBARY THIS YEAR I WAS ON THE PHONE TO THE FORMER WIFE OF A 1980S “POOFTER BASHER”. HIS NAME WAS AMONG A LIST OF MORE THAN 20 LKED TO THE SO-LLED BONDI BOYS, WHOSE TEENAGE MEMBERS WERE SPECTED, ALTHOUGH NEVER NVICTED, OF BASHG AND EVEN MURRG GAY MEN ON THE CLIFFS BETWEEN THEIR BEACH SUBURB AND NEIGHBOURG TAMARAMA.“HE’D DO THE SAME AGA TODAY,” THE MOTHER OF THE BASHER’S CHILDREN ASSURED ME.AT BLACKFELLA FILMS WE WERE STG A WI FOR POTENTIAL SUBJECTS TO APPEAR THE DOCUMENTARY DEEP WATER: THE REAL STORY, WHICH AIRED ON SUNDAY NIGHT ON SBS.WE WANTED TO GA SOME SIGHT TO WHAT MOTIVATED THE GAY BASHERS. WHAT WAS GOG ON THEIR YOUNG MDS?WE HAD TERVIEWED THE FAY AND IENDS OF MEN WHO HAD DIED. WE HAD RERD THE BRAVE TTIMONY OF BASHG VICTIMS SUCH AS DAVID MCMAHON, THE ONE WHO GOT AWAY. HE RELLED THE PACK OF KIDS WHO SURROUND HIM DECEMBER 1989, GIRLS CHEERG ON THE BOYS AS THEY PUNCHED AND KICKED HIM AND DRAGGED HIM TO A CLIFF WHERE THEIR RGLEAR SAID WORDS TO THE EFFECT: “LET’S THROW HIM OFF WHERE WE THREW THE OTHER DU.”“WE ALL KNOW THE BOYS GOT UP TO STUFF... BUT NOBODY’S GOG TO TELL YOU.”THE OTHER DU MAY WELL HAVE BEEN JOHN RSELL. IN 2005, THE THEN PUTY STATE RONER JACQUELE MILLEDGE FOUND THAT RSELL, A GAY BARMAN, WAS THROWN TO HIS ATH OM A BONDI CLIFF LS THAN A MONTH BEFORE THE SICKENG ASSLT ON MCMAHON.THREE NIGHTS BEFORE THE MCMAHON ATTACK, AND ONLY METR AWAY, THREE YOUTHS MAND TO KNOW IF ALAN BOXSELL WAS GAY. THEY PROCEED TO BASH HIM WH A SKATEBOARD, BREAKG SIX OF HIS RIBS. BOTH MCMAHON AND BOXSELL INTIFIED A BONDI BOY, SEAN CHMAN, BUT HE WAS NEVER CHARGED AND HE TOLD THE MILLEDGE QUT THAT HE WAS NEVER VOLVED GAY BASHG. MILLEDGE FOUND THERE WAS NOT ENOUGH EVINCE TO LAY CHARG AGAST ANYONE NNECTN WH THE ATHS OF THREE GAY MEN, RSELL, ROSS WARREN AND GILL MATTAI.BOXSELL, HOWEVER, ALSO INTIFIED TEENAGER DAVID MCAULIFFE, WHO WAS CHARGED AND WHO, ALONG WH HIS BROTHER AND A THIRD BOY, WENT ON SEVEN MONTHS LATER TO MURR ANOTHER GAY MAN, KRCHIKORN RATTANAJURATHAPORN, ON THE SAME HEADLAND.WHILE REARCHG FOR THE DOCUMENTARY, I NTACTED KNOWN AND SPECTED BASHERS. I ALT WH TWO OF THE KILLERS WHO HAD BEEN NVICTED AS TEENAGERS OF THEIR CRIM. I BELIEVE THEY WERE SCERELY ASHAMED AND EPLY SORRY.MOST OF THE CRIM, HOWEVER, REMA UNSOLVED. MANY OF THE PEOPLE VOLVED, OR WHO WERE ON THE PERIPHERY OF THE GANGS, HAVE BEEN KEEPG THEIR SECRETS FOR S.SO I REACHED OUT TO THE BONDI BOYS AND THEIR HANGERS-ON, CLUDG SOME OF THE GIRLS. NOW THEIR 40S, NONE WOULD NTRIBUTE TO THE DOCUMENTARY, EVEN IF THEIR INTI WERE TO BE DISGUISED.“WE ALL KNOW THE BOYS GOT UP TO STUFF,” ONE OF THE WOMEN SAID, “BUT NOBODY’S GOG TO TELL YOU.”SOMETIM WAS NECSARY TO SEEK THE OLD BONDI BOYS THROUGH AN TERMEDIARY, A RELATIVE OR IEND OF THE ONE-TIME BASHER. OR, THE SE OF MY MOST DISTURBG PHONE LL, THE MOTHER OF HIS CHILDREN.THIS MAN HAD NOT BEEN A PERSON OF TERT ANY OF THE MURRS. BUT 2001 HE HAD SPOKEN MORE ANKLY THAN MOST OF THE OLD BONDI CREW TO POLICE OFFICERS OM OPERATN TARADALE, LED BY THEN HOMICI TECTIVE STEVE PAGE. THEY WERE RE-VTIGATG THE ATH OF RSELL AND THE DISAPPEARANCE OF WARREN, A WOLLONGONG NEWSREAR.THE OLD BONDI BOY TOLD THEM HE HAD BASHED GAYS AT NORTH BONDI BUT NEVER AT MARKS PARK, THE CLIFF-SI GAY BEAT THAT SEPARAT BONDI AND TAMARAMA. THIS IS WHERE WARREN VANISHED JULY 1989 AND WHERE RSELL’S BODY WAS FOUND AT THE BASE OF A CLIFF LS THAN FOUR MONTHS LATER.THE NFSED BASHER WASN’T RETURNG MY MSAG, SO I ASKED HIS FORMER PARTNER TO ASSURE HIM THAT HE ULD REMA ANONYMO. WE ONLY WANTED HIS HONT RELLECTNS.“HE WON’T TALK TO YOU,” SHE SAID, “BUT I N TELL YOU WHAT HE THKS.”WHAT HE THKS MT E WH A LANGUAGE AND VLENT NTENT WARNG. IF YOU ARE NOT PREPARED TO BE DISTRSED, STOP READG, BUT I BELIEVE IS STCTIVE. THE MOTHER OF HIS CHILDREN TOLD ME: “IF A BLOKE WALKS TO A PUBLIC DUNNY AND STICKS HIS C--- THROUGH A HOLE THE WALL TO GET SUCKED, HE’S GUNNA GET BASHED.”TAKEN ABACK, I DREW BREATH BEFORE PERSEVERG. IF I ULD HEAR THAT OM HIM…“HE’LL NEVER TALK, MATE, BUT I’LL TELL YOU WHAT HE THKS. IF YOU WALK TO A DUNNY AND THERE’S A BLOKE CHOCKERS UP ANOTHER BLOKE, THEY’RE GUNNA GET BASHED.”STUNNED, I MA ANOTHER ATTEMPT. THAT WAS THEN, I SUGGTED, AND THIS IS NOW. PEOPLE CHANGE WH THE TIM. PERHAPS HE FELT DIFFERENTLY TODAY…“NO, NOT THEN,” SHE ANSWERED. “NOW! HE’D DO THE SAME AGA TODAY.”SO THERE WAS.I DON’T BELIEVE HE IS TYPIL, OR CERTALY NOT OF THE FEW FORMER “POOFTER BASHERS” I HAVE MANAGED TO SPEAK TO.THERE IS THE MAN, NOW HIS MID-40S, WHO RELLS ENTERG THE AY OUTSI THE BONDI PAVILN THE EARLY 1980S, WHERE TWO MEN HAD DARED TO HOLD HANDS WHILE WALKG. SOMEONE CRIED “POOFS” AND A MOB OF KIDS JOED A ENZY OF VLENCE. “I THK I PUT A BOOT ,” MY NTACT REMEMBERS. “BUT THAT WAS THE ONLY ONE I EVER DID. I WENT HOME AND BAWLED MY EY OUT.”HE WAS 12 YEARS OLD.HE N’T REALLY EXPLA WHY HE JOED . “WE THOUGHT FAGS WERE DISGTG.” SOME OF THEM NFED HOMOSEXUALY WH PAEDOPHILIA. “BUT WE WERE JT WILD. ONE , ALL .”WHO AMONG THEM WILL HAVE THE URAGE TO SPEAK UP NOW?A LTLE OVER THREE YEARS AGO, I LLED ONE OF THE MEMBERS OF THE SO-LLED ALEXANDRIA EIGHT. IN THE SUMMER SCHOOL HOLIDAYS OF 1990, THEY FOUND A PHONE NUMBER ON THE WALL OF THE TOILETS ALEXANDRIA PARK. IT WAS A GAY BEAT AND WAS ADJACENT TO CLEVELAND STREET HIGH SCHOOL, WHERE MOST OF THE EIGHT TEENAGERS WENT TO SCHOOL. ONE OF THE BOYS LLED THE NUMBER AND LURED RICHARD JOHNSON TO THE TOILETS, WHERE THE GANG BASHED AND STOMPED HIM TO ATH.THOSE BOY KILLERS HAVE LONG SERVED THEIR TIME. THE ONE I NTACTED 2013 WAS BY THEN A FATHER OF FOUR. HE TOLD ME HIS ELST WAS THEN 16, THE AGE HE WAS WHEN HE MTED HIS CRIME. HE EXPRSED EP REGRET. AT SOME POT, HE SAID, HE WOULD HAVE TO S HIS KIDS DOWN AND EXPLA WHAT HE DID.I EMAILED HIM THIS YEAR TO SEE IF HE MIGHT NTRIBUTE TO THE DOCUMENTARY. HE POLELY CLED. I TRIED AGA. HE REPLIED: “I N APPRECIATE YOUR PERSISTENCE GETTG ME VOLVED AND UNRSTAND THE IMPACT ULD BRG TO THE DOCUMENTARY. HOWEVER PLEASE UNRSTAND THAT 'S DIFFICULT FOR ME TO HAVE TO REVIS THE MEMORI THAT EPLY AFFECT ME AND ULTIMATELY BRG ME DOWN.“I SEE AND HEAR THGS EVERY DAY THAT REMD ME OF WHAT I DID, AND I NVCE MYSELF EVERY DAY THAT I’M A GOOD MAN. IF YOU HAVE CHILDREN I’M SURE YOU'D UNRSTAND THE IMPORTANCE OF BEG A POSIVE FIGURE THEIR LIV. I’M A FATHER OF FOUR, MY OLST IS 18 AND MY YOUNGT IS FIVE, SO THEY THANKFULLY NSUME MY LIFE AND KEEP ME GROUND, THEY PROTECT ME OM MY MONS.”STT JOHNSON, THE 27-YEAR-OLD AMERIN WHO WAS FOUND AT THE BASE OF A CLIFF AT NORTH HEAD DECEMBER 1988. SOURCE: SUPPLIEDABOUT THE SAME TIME, I NTACTED ONE OF THE TAMARAMA THREE, THE KILLERS OF KRCHIKORN RATTANAJURATHAPORN AT BONDI 1990. HE HAD LONG AGO PLETED HIS PRISON TERM FOR THAT MURR, BUT HE WAS BACK JAIL. BY NOW HE WAS G TO THE END OF A LONG SENTENCE FOR AN ASSLT ON HIS PARTNER.HE WANTED TO BE TERVIEWED ON MERA BUT PRISON THORI WOULD NOT ALLOW , SO WE SETTLED FOR A LETTER.“I AM WRG THIS OM PRISON,” BEGAN. “IN 1990, I MURRED A GAY MAN AND SERLY ASSLTED HIS PANN.”REVOICED TO POWERFUL EFFECT THE DOCUMENTARY, HIS WORDS PROVI SOME SIGHT TO THE KD OF MDSET THAT MIGHT TURN A CHILD TO A HATEFUL KILLER. IT IS NOT AN EXCE OR ANYWHERE NEAR AN AQUATE EXPLANATN, BUT IS AN SIGHT.HE SCRIB HIS “DREAD, FEAR, ANGER, NFN” ON THAT NIGHT MARKS PARK, BUT MORE SO HIS “FALSE PRI, TEENAGE BRAVADO AND A SIRE TO MAKE OTHERS FEEL AS MISERABLE AND LONELY AS I DID AS A KID”.GAY PEOPLE WERE AN “EASY TARGET FOR AN ANGRY, MALADJTED YOUNG BOY”.ONE OF HIS CLOST IENDS NOW IS GAY. “HE’S A GOOD BLOKE.” THE IEND DO NOT REGNISE THE PERSON HE ONCE WAS. TO HIS VICTIM’S FAY: “I’M SORRY I TOOK YOUR SON’S LIFE THAT NIGHT. IF I WASN’T THERE, THEN HE WOULD NOT HAVE DIED. I NIED HIM THE OPPORTUNY TO A FULL AND HAPPY LIFE. I ED IMMEASURABLE PA AND LOSS YOUR FAY. FOR THIS, I AM SORRY.”THIS BOY KILLER WAS WILLG TO BE NAMED, TO STAND UP AS A MAN AND WEAR HIS SHAME. IT WAS A DIRECTORIAL CHOICE TO PRERVE HIS ANONYMY. HE WAS BUT ONE OF MANY, MANY GAY BASHERS.MY JOURNALISTIC STCT WOULD HAVE BEEN TO INTIFY HIM, BUT I UNRSTOOD THAT EDORIAL CHOICE. WHY SHOULD HE ALONE ANSWER FOR ALL OF THEM?ALL OF THEM. NOT ONLY THE KILLERS BUT THE THUGS WHO ROAMED PACKS AND BASHED AND MAIMED FOR SPORT, AND THE BOYS AND GIRLS ON THE SIL WHO NEVER LAID A PUNCH BUT KNOW WHO DID.WHO AMONG THEM WILL HAVE THE URAGE TO SPEAK UP NOW?IN DECEMBER, A THIRD QUT WILL BEG TO THE ATH OF AMERIN STT JOHNSON, WHOSE NAKED BODY WAS FOUND AT THE BASE OF NORTH HEAD DECEMBER 1988. HIS FAY IS NVCED HE WAS THROWN, CHASED OR IGHTENED OF THAT CLIFF TOP, YET ANOTHER GAY BEAT. POLICE ARE STILL CLED TO BELIEVE WAS SUICI. THE STATE CORONER WANTS THE TTH, WHATEVER IS.SO DO TED AND PETER RSELL, FATHER AND BROTHER OF JOHN. SO DO KAY WARREN, MOTHER OF ROSS.WHO WILL GIVE THEM THE TTH?CRIME STOPPERS: 1800 333 000CONTACT: WATCH THE DOCUMENTARY DEEP WATER: THE REAL STORY:RELATEDPOLICE ADM BLUNRS GAY-HATE MURR HUNTSHARE10 M READPUBLISHED 18 OCTOBER 2016 5:40PMUPDATED 19 OCTOBER 2016 6:20PMBY RICK FENELEYSOURCE: SBSSHARE THIS WH FAY AND IENDSCOPY LKSHARETOPICS

From the late 1980s, a wave of btal murrs swept Sydney’s clifftops. The victims were gay men; police barely bothered vtigatg." name="scriptn * the bondi gay murders *

The unvarnished fact is that late at night, Marks Park, a grassy verge ppg the headland and the ncrete pathway skirtg the cliff face, had been a gay beat – a place where homosexual men would socialise and hook up – sce at least the late 1920s. 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.

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

If you were a gay man Sydney durg the 1970s to 1990s, there was a chance you uld get beaten up or killed, Garry Wotherspoon says. A memorial to the victims now stands on the eastern suburbs se where many of the acts of vlence took place. * the bondi gay murders *

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. ”In what was perhaps another watershed moment this year, a 75-year-old man was arrted for the murr of Raymond Keam, a martial arts expert and father of two who was found beaten to ath January 1987 at Alison Park, Randwick, then a well-known gay beat Sydney’s east.

NOW THEY'RE 40-SOMETHG, WILL BONDI'S GAY-BASHG GANGS DOB KILLERS FOR $100,000

Rewards of $100,000 will be offered for rmatn leadg to the killers of three men on the Bondi-Tamarama headlands the 1980s, which a roner 2005 lked to a spate of "gay hate" crim." name="scriptn * the bondi gay murders *

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. 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. ”Parkhill nces that the culture of the NSW police force reflected broar societal norms of the time, although possibly exacerbated by a mostly male staff and the AIDS crisis, which provid those wh an agenda agast gay men wh the perfect ammunn to stigmatise the LGBTQ muny even more.

"It was part of life beg a gay man Sydney at the time, you were aware of the hate crim … uld've been me, rather than the people I know, " Mr Wotherspoon lived through the 70s to 90s, a dark chapter of the Harbour Cy's history where dozens of mal were sla btal fashn.

BLOODSPORT: THE BONDI GAY MURRS

Bloodsport: The Bondi Gay Murrs: Directed by Gary Deans. Wh Rohan Brooker, Warren Lee, Fraser Stark, Matthew Starlg. In the late 1980s and early 1990s a seri of vlent murrs took place near Sydney's famo Bondi Beach. Three nocent men were attacked and thrown to their aths om a clifftop. The murrs were part of a much wir wave of vlent hate crim as gangs of youths roamed Sydney's ner suburbs randomly bashg and killg gay men for sport." data-id="ma * the bondi gay murders *

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.

AUTHOR DUNN MCNAB HOP ONE OF THE GAY HATE CRIME GANG MEMBERS FALLY SPEAKS OUT

The NSW Police Force has admted s officers may have ma ser mistak while re-examg potential gay-hate murrs among a list of 30 unsolved aths. An SBS vtigatn has unvered a failure by police to check even basic tails for some of the men, rultg an erroneo asssment beg provid to NSW State Coroner Michael Barn. For the first time, each of the 30 s is explaed tail this SBS teractive. But some of the s would have amounted to a few l if SBS had relied on what police managed to unver. * the bondi gay murders *

The aim is to attract a natnal dience to the story, and to unver more possible gay hate crim and murrs producer, Darren Dale, says he was spired by hearg 2012 about the murr of Ahmed Ghoniem, who was found Sydney apartment wh multiple stab wounds and blunt trma juri. Shawn Seet, the director of the ld Canberra polil drama The Co, is at the the prent day, fictnal Detective Senr Constable Tori Ltigman, played by Yael Stone of Orange Is the New Black, her own DNA to see if match DNA found on a piece of lead pipg, which she spects may be her gay brother’s. 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. NSW Police effectively reversed ronial fdgs about three potential gay-hate related murrs Bondi whout speakg to dozens of persons of tert or tellg the roner, an quiry has ’s special missn of quiry to LGBTIQ hate crim has heard police set up the secretive Strike Force Neiwand 2015 to revtigate the aths of Ross Warren, John Rsell and Gill Mattai, who died or disappeared the 1980s around Bondi’s Marks Park, a known gay Rsell, Ross Warren and Gill The Sydney Morng HeraldTheir aths had already been the subject of a police strike force and ronial puty state roner Jacquele Milledge found 2005 that Warren and Rsell had died after meetg wh “foul play”, while the e and manner of ath of Mattai was untermed.

Olr today, and probably wiser, perhaps they've grown a nscience, or a maybe, after all the years, they will be tempted by the $100, 000 rewards announced on Tuday to dob the killers of three gay men who died separately more than 25 years ago.

STT JOHNSON: MAN NFS TO 1988 GAY HATE MURR

Between 1987 and 1993 up to 20 gay men were murred across Sydney, too many dismissed at the time as suicis or aths by misadventure." name="scriptn * the bondi gay murders *

It giv weight to the origal police fdg that he mted report, by Detective Chief Inspector Pamela Young of the Unsolved Homici Team, also sts doubt on the epimic theory of experts, cludg the former police gay liaison Sue Thompson, who had intified up to 30 potential unsolved gay-hate murrs om the late 1970s to late 1990s. The report puts eight unsolved murrs the gay-hate Inspector Young, who had a publicised fd wh the Johnson fay, has been removed om that se at the requt of State Coroner Michael Barn, who plaed that an "unprecented" terview she gave to the ABC's Latele uld unrme public nfince her impartialy. ”Steve Johnson would return to Atralia several tim, doggedly termed to prove his brother uld not have killed the way, Steve and a team of supporters and vtigators would learn of chillgly siar aths other astal of young men were turng up at the bottom of cliffs, not only at Blue Fish Pot where Stt had been found, but at another betiful astal spot the harbour cy’s the men simply vanished, their bodi never to be found, at a place lled Marks Park, which the 1980s was a killg ground for a gang of youths aged as young as 15 huntg gay Stt Johnson died, he had left his cloth neatly fold at the top of Blue Fish Pot.

“Took off his cloth, laid down, and so somebody probably walked up to Stt while he was there and proposed sex, proposed somethg, ” Steve told Atralian began vtigatg whether Blue Fish Pot, like Marks Park, was a known as a beat among Sydney’s gay muny.

Homosexualy was only crimalised Atralia the two s between the start of the 1970s and 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 1985, 27-year-old French natnal Gill Mattai was livg was last seen walkg along the astal walkg track at Tamarama on September 15 that year by a neighbour.

THE BEAT: A TE ACUNT OF THE BONDI GAY MURRS

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Between 1989 and 1999 around 46 known gay hate murrs took place New South Wal, many of them still one month alone 1990, 38 gay-related beatgs were reported to Surry Hills or Kgs Cross 2000, rpondg to pleas om fai of the murred or missg, NSW Police reopened thoands of s and took more than 400 2002, they prented a brief to then-Deputy State Coroner Jacquele Milledge. The murrs were part of a much wir wave of vlent hate crim as gangs of youths roamed Sydney's ner suburbs randomly bashg and killg gay men for productn, box office & pany PhotosBe the first to reviewContribute to this pageSuggt an ed or add missg ntentEd pageMore to exploreRecently viewedYou have no recently viewed pag.

INVTIGATN REVEALED EVIL AND VLENCE DIRECTED AT GAY MEN ACROSS SYDNEY

Deep Water: Wh Noah Taylor, Yael Stone, Jeremy Ldsay Taylor, Danielle Cormack. When a young gay man is btally murred near Bondi Beach, Detectiv Tori Ltigman and Nick Manng are assigned to vtigate. After more bodi are found, Tori lks the aths to a seri of murrs of gay men the 1980s and '90s." data-id="ma * the bondi gay murders *

600 objectns to Bronte RSLVio: Man bashed wh bats at BondiTHERE are men and women Bondi who have gotten away wh horrific gang members, who hunted and killed gay men as “sport” their teens, have kept silent for lol thor Dunn McNab is hopg one of them will fally speak former police officer last week released his latt book which tails shockg stori of asslts and men thrown off cliffs jt for beg homosexual. Mr McNab, 60 says his book highlight’s our lol 80 men died or disappeared across the state om the late 70s to early 90s durg an epimic of gay hate of the btal attacks on the men happened the eastern suburbs which was a huntg ground for many gangs of young thugs such as the Bondi Boys and the Tamarama Three. Image source, Steve JohnsonImage ptn, Stt me to Atralia 1986 om the USA man has fally nfsed to the murr of Cambridge Universy graduate Stt Johnson after more than 30 27-year-old's naked body was found at the bottom of North Head cliffs, a well known gay cisg ground Sydney, Atralia, back the time, his ath was led as suici - somethg his fay never Whe was arrted and charged 2020, and this week unexpectedly plead guilty at a pre-trial lawyers attempted to have the admissn whdrawn, argug that Whe, 50, was not mentally on Thursday, a Supreme Court judge rejected that motn, wrg the plea was entered " a loud clear voice, and an emphatic and termed manner".

BLOOD SPORT - THE BONDI GAY MURRS

Blood Sport - The Bondi Gay Murrs: In the 1980s and 90s, on a cliff-top walk near Bondi Beach, gangs of thugs staged bloody attacks on anyone they perceived to be gay and then hurled them to their aths to the ocean below." data-id="ma * the bondi gay murders *

"It was nceivable to me that Stt went somewhere and jumped off a cliff, " his brother Steve told Rad 1 Newsbeat 2018, when he was sperately mpaigng for the tth behd his brother's 2005 Steve says he beme aware of quts to siar aths of gay men at Bondi Beach Sydney - the moment when he says he "woke up" to what might have happened to his younger lol police showed ltle tert re-openg Stt's se, Steve hired an vtigator who unvered urt rerds of gangs who roamed northern beach Sydney at the time mtg asslts agast gay source, Steve JohnsonImage ptn, Steve (left) has spent more than 30 years tryg to fd out the tth about his brother Stt's athAll the years later, Steve told ABC that he was grateful a trial uld be avoid. On both ocsns police found nothg to nvce them Stt hadn't taken his own November 2017 a roner led Stt had been murred by a gay hate gang, which led to a new was timated up to 80 gay men were murred by homophobic gangs and around Sydney the late eighti - wh many phed off third qut created a lot of publicy, wh Atralian police eventually renewg their vtigatn and offerg a $1m reward for rmatn, wh Steve reportedly offerg an addnal $ rerds show "a strike force" was assembled, and followg rmatn received om a member of the public, foc turned to Stt was arrted and charged wh murr on 12 May source, Steve JohnsonImage ptn, Steve says he spent summers wh his brother travellg, readg philosophy and dog maths togetherNew South Wal Police Commissner Mick Fuller prevly said Stt's ath was one of the most challengg s he's ever worked on - mostly bee no-one was willg to talk about his murr.

Stt moved om the US to Atralia 1986 bee, at the time, domtic partnership laws (siar to civil partnership) were some of the most clive the homosexualy had only been crimalised New South Wal 1984 and Steve believ police did not take hate crim serly at the time of his brother's source, Steve JohnsonImage ptn, Stt moved to Atralia 1986 to be wh a man he met at Cambridge Universy"The gay muny were send class cizens. When he was ferretg through old police reports back 2000 as Sydney partied durg the Olympics, Detective Sergeant Steve Page had no ia he was about to lnch the most tensive vtigatn to gay hate murrs ever nducted his vtigatn – named Operatn Taradale – centred on the myster aths of weatherman and newsrear Ross Warren and barman John Rsell on the Bondi clifftops 1989, and the disappearance of French natnal Gill Mattai the same lotn four years earlier, revealed a much wir pattern of evil and sensels vlence directed at gay men across Sydney at the time.

Bee of police difference and actn the late 1980s, gangs of young men uld roam the clifftops on the southern headland at Bondi, bashg and killg gay men wh virtual impuny, wh ltle fear of the long arm of the law tchg up wh one killg on the headland at this time, of Thai natnal Krchikorn Rattanjurathaporn, rulted a murr nvictn and years behd bars for the three young killers.

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

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When I asked Page, who qu the force back 2005, to expla his prcipal motive pursug the ground-breakg Taradale vtigatn, which would nsume nearly five years of his life, he replied: “I wanted to look the parents of the men the eye, knowg I had done all that was possible” Thompson, a former state Ombudsman’s vtigator who joed the police force January 1990 to liaise wh the gay and lbian muny, scribed the cliffs at Bondi, topped by Marks Park, as the perfect killg field. Operatn Taradale led to an qut 2005, which found the origal 1989 vtigatns to the aths of Rsell and Warren by the Bondi police were “disgraceful” and “lackltre” State Coroner Jacquele Milledge clared Page’s vtigatn “will provi an excellent source of evince should other matters e to light” rults of Page’s vtigatn are still reverberatg, wh a parliamentary quiry to gay and transgenr hate crim between 1970 and 2010 released earlier this year.

LoadgThe quiry ma a number of remendatns, cludg a judicial missn of quiry wh vtigative powers to look to the rpons of the NSW jtice system to the long epimic of anti-gay murrs and he lnched his vtigatn 2000, Page was seekg posthumo jtice for the victims’ the ghosts of Warren and Rsell aren’t que settled Morng Edn newsletter is our gui to the day’s most important and tertg stori, analysis and sights. After more bodi are found, Tori lks the aths to a seri of murrs of gay men the 1980s and ' productn, box office & pany Episos4Vios1More like thisReview Above average, but uneven at the expense of profundyIt is natural that Atralia, havg lengthy (pennt) ti wh the UK, aspir to imate/repeat the latter's succs the field of crime thrillers, stockg wh lol nature and habs, sometim whout havg any fluence to the urse of events or effect on scen.

Crime Invtigatn Atralia: Most InfamoEpiso aired May 9, 2018In the 1980s and 90s, on a cliff-top walk near Bondi Beach, gangs of thugs staged bloody attacks on anyone they perceived to be gay and then hurled them to their aths to the ocean the 1980s and 90s, on a cliff-top walk near Bondi Beach, gangs of thugs staged bloody attacks on anyone they perceived to be gay and then hurled them to their aths to the ocean the 1980s and 90s, on a cliff-top walk near Bondi Beach, gangs of thugs staged bloody attacks on anyone they perceived to be gay and then hurled them to their aths to the ocean productn, box office & pany PhotosBe the first to reviewContribute to this pageSuggt an ed or add missg ntentWhat is the broadst (satelle or terrtrial TV) release date of Blood Sport - The Bondi Gay Murrs (2018) Brazil? But as the spree of anti-gay vlence and murr lat across Sydney, the LGBTQ muny starts to fight back: om stagg a mass monstratn at the gat of state parliament, to street patrols along Oxford Street, to angry activists splatterg red pat over public than a later, as Detective Sergeant Steve Page reviews the ld s of the disappearanc and murrs on the Bondi headland, he begs to jo the dots wh other killgs across Sydney the late 1980s and early for privacy rmatn.

NSW QUIRY TO VTIGATE 40 YEARS OF UNSOLVED SYDNEY GAY HATE ATHS

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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. "Details about the ntent of the quiry, cludg s terms of reference, are yet to be month a memorial was unveiled at Marks Park Tamarama, the se of many spected murrs, to acknowledge and honour the victims of gay hate 4 Nov 2021Thu 4 Nov 2021 at 1:20am, updated 4 Nov 2021Thu 4 Nov 2021 at 3:29am. NSW Premier Domic Perrottet has announced the most extensive quiry to dozens of Sydney gay hate aths that have gone unsolved some s for more than half a pots:Gay hate crim were rampant durg the 1980s and 1990s SydneyA parliamentary mtee prevly found police failed to vtigate many spected gay hate murrsThe upg quiry will have signifint powers, cludg the summong of wnsThe special missn of quiry will be led by Supreme Court judge John Sackar and will vtigate 88 unsolved murrs mted agast LGBTQI people om 1970 to is thought the quiry may lead to new evince beg unvered or brg prevly unreported crim to light.

A spate of btal bashgs and murrs Sydney brought terror to the LGBTQI muny for s and police were often not terted vtigatg the gangs targeted gay men parks and toilets, and victims were often found at the bottom of such se was the murr of Amerin mathematician Stt Johnson, who was found ad at the base of a cliff near Manly's North Head. (Supplied: NSW Police)A judicial quiry was one of the key remendatns of a 2018 parliamentary mtee to gay and transgenr hate crim, which found NSW Police were different to such crim and failed to properly vtigate them at the time. NSW Police tablished Strike Force Parrabell 2013 to vtigate the murrs of 86 gay men and found a third of the killgs were a rult of gay Strike Force found the AIDS crisis fuelled homophobia but nclud was "almost impossible" to intify a "gay-hate bias" om police vtigators workg on the s.

‘HE’D DO AGA TODAY’: CONVERSATNS WH THE GAY-HATE WORKWHILE REARCHG FOR THE SBS DOCUMENTARY 'DEEP WATER: THE REAL STORY', JOURNALIST RICK FENELEY HAD SOME DISTURBG ENUNTERS.DAVID MCMAHON PED AN ATTACK 1989. SOURCE: SBSIN FEBARY THIS YEAR I WAS ON THE PHONE TO THE FORMER WIFE OF A 1980S “POOFTER BASHER”. HIS NAME WAS AMONG A LIST OF MORE THAN 20 LKED TO THE SO-LLED BONDI BOYS, WHOSE TEENAGE MEMBERS WERE SPECTED, ALTHOUGH NEVER NVICTED, OF BASHG AND EVEN MURRG GAY MEN ON THE CLIFFS BETWEEN THEIR BEACH SUBURB AND NEIGHBOURG TAMARAMA.“HE’D DO THE SAME AGA TODAY,” THE MOTHER OF THE BASHER’S CHILDREN ASSURED ME.AT BLACKFELLA FILMS WE WERE STG A WI FOR POTENTIAL SUBJECTS TO APPEAR THE DOCUMENTARY DEEP WATER: THE REAL STORY, WHICH AIRED ON SUNDAY NIGHT ON SBS.WE WANTED TO GA SOME SIGHT TO WHAT MOTIVATED THE GAY BASHERS. WHAT WAS GOG ON THEIR YOUNG MDS?WE HAD TERVIEWED THE FAY AND IENDS OF MEN WHO HAD DIED. WE HAD RERD THE BRAVE TTIMONY OF BASHG VICTIMS SUCH AS DAVID MCMAHON, THE ONE WHO GOT AWAY. HE RELLED THE PACK OF KIDS WHO SURROUND HIM DECEMBER 1989, GIRLS CHEERG ON THE BOYS AS THEY PUNCHED AND KICKED HIM AND DRAGGED HIM TO A CLIFF WHERE THEIR RGLEAR SAID WORDS TO THE EFFECT: “LET’S THROW HIM OFF WHERE WE THREW THE OTHER DU.”“WE ALL KNOW THE BOYS GOT UP TO STUFF... BUT NOBODY’S GOG TO TELL YOU.”THE OTHER DU MAY WELL HAVE BEEN JOHN RSELL. IN 2005, THE THEN PUTY STATE RONER JACQUELE MILLEDGE FOUND THAT RSELL, A GAY BARMAN, WAS THROWN TO HIS ATH OM A BONDI CLIFF LS THAN A MONTH BEFORE THE SICKENG ASSLT ON MCMAHON.THREE NIGHTS BEFORE THE MCMAHON ATTACK, AND ONLY METR AWAY, THREE YOUTHS MAND TO KNOW IF ALAN BOXSELL WAS GAY. THEY PROCEED TO BASH HIM WH A SKATEBOARD, BREAKG SIX OF HIS RIBS. BOTH MCMAHON AND BOXSELL INTIFIED A BONDI BOY, SEAN CHMAN, BUT HE WAS NEVER CHARGED AND HE TOLD THE MILLEDGE QUT THAT HE WAS NEVER VOLVED GAY BASHG. MILLEDGE FOUND THERE WAS NOT ENOUGH EVINCE TO LAY CHARG AGAST ANYONE NNECTN WH THE ATHS OF THREE GAY MEN, RSELL, ROSS WARREN AND GILL MATTAI.BOXSELL, HOWEVER, ALSO INTIFIED TEENAGER DAVID MCAULIFFE, WHO WAS CHARGED AND WHO, ALONG WH HIS BROTHER AND A THIRD BOY, WENT ON SEVEN MONTHS LATER TO MURR ANOTHER GAY MAN, KRCHIKORN RATTANAJURATHAPORN, ON THE SAME HEADLAND.WHILE REARCHG FOR THE DOCUMENTARY, I NTACTED KNOWN AND SPECTED BASHERS. I ALT WH TWO OF THE KILLERS WHO HAD BEEN NVICTED AS TEENAGERS OF THEIR CRIM. I BELIEVE THEY WERE SCERELY ASHAMED AND EPLY SORRY.MOST OF THE CRIM, HOWEVER, REMA UNSOLVED. MANY OF THE PEOPLE VOLVED, OR WHO WERE ON THE PERIPHERY OF THE GANGS, HAVE BEEN KEEPG THEIR SECRETS FOR S.SO I REACHED OUT TO THE BONDI BOYS AND THEIR HANGERS-ON, CLUDG SOME OF THE GIRLS. NOW THEIR 40S, NONE WOULD NTRIBUTE TO THE DOCUMENTARY, EVEN IF THEIR INTI WERE TO BE DISGUISED.“WE ALL KNOW THE BOYS GOT UP TO STUFF,” ONE OF THE WOMEN SAID, “BUT NOBODY’S GOG TO TELL YOU.”SOMETIM WAS NECSARY TO SEEK THE OLD BONDI BOYS THROUGH AN TERMEDIARY, A RELATIVE OR IEND OF THE ONE-TIME BASHER. OR, THE SE OF MY MOST DISTURBG PHONE LL, THE MOTHER OF HIS CHILDREN.THIS MAN HAD NOT BEEN A PERSON OF TERT ANY OF THE MURRS. BUT 2001 HE HAD SPOKEN MORE ANKLY THAN MOST OF THE OLD BONDI CREW TO POLICE OFFICERS OM OPERATN TARADALE, LED BY THEN HOMICI TECTIVE STEVE PAGE. THEY WERE RE-VTIGATG THE ATH OF RSELL AND THE DISAPPEARANCE OF WARREN, A WOLLONGONG NEWSREAR.THE OLD BONDI BOY TOLD THEM HE HAD BASHED GAYS AT NORTH BONDI BUT NEVER AT MARKS PARK, THE CLIFF-SI GAY BEAT THAT SEPARAT BONDI AND TAMARAMA. THIS IS WHERE WARREN VANISHED JULY 1989 AND WHERE RSELL’S BODY WAS FOUND AT THE BASE OF A CLIFF LS THAN FOUR MONTHS LATER.THE NFSED BASHER WASN’T RETURNG MY MSAG, SO I ASKED HIS FORMER PARTNER TO ASSURE HIM THAT HE ULD REMA ANONYMO. WE ONLY WANTED HIS HONT RELLECTNS.“HE WON’T TALK TO YOU,” SHE SAID, “BUT I N TELL YOU WHAT HE THKS.”WHAT HE THKS MT E WH A LANGUAGE AND VLENT NTENT WARNG. IF YOU ARE NOT PREPARED TO BE DISTRSED, STOP READG, BUT I BELIEVE IS STCTIVE. THE MOTHER OF HIS CHILDREN TOLD ME: “IF A BLOKE WALKS TO A PUBLIC DUNNY AND STICKS HIS C--- THROUGH A HOLE THE WALL TO GET SUCKED, HE’S GUNNA GET BASHED.”TAKEN ABACK, I DREW BREATH BEFORE PERSEVERG. IF I ULD HEAR THAT OM HIM…“HE’LL NEVER TALK, MATE, BUT I’LL TELL YOU WHAT HE THKS. IF YOU WALK TO A DUNNY AND THERE’S A BLOKE CHOCKERS UP ANOTHER BLOKE, THEY’RE GUNNA GET BASHED.”STUNNED, I MA ANOTHER ATTEMPT. THAT WAS THEN, I SUGGTED, AND THIS IS NOW. PEOPLE CHANGE WH THE TIM. PERHAPS HE FELT DIFFERENTLY TODAY…“NO, NOT THEN,” SHE ANSWERED. “NOW! HE’D DO THE SAME AGA TODAY.”SO THERE WAS.I DON’T BELIEVE HE IS TYPIL, OR CERTALY NOT OF THE FEW FORMER “POOFTER BASHERS” I HAVE MANAGED TO SPEAK TO.THERE IS THE MAN, NOW HIS MID-40S, WHO RELLS ENTERG THE AY OUTSI THE BONDI PAVILN THE EARLY 1980S, WHERE TWO MEN HAD DARED TO HOLD HANDS WHILE WALKG. SOMEONE CRIED “POOFS” AND A MOB OF KIDS JOED A ENZY OF VLENCE. “I THK I PUT A BOOT ,” MY NTACT REMEMBERS. “BUT THAT WAS THE ONLY ONE I EVER DID. I WENT HOME AND BAWLED MY EY OUT.”HE WAS 12 YEARS OLD.HE N’T REALLY EXPLA WHY HE JOED . “WE THOUGHT FAGS WERE DISGTG.” SOME OF THEM NFED HOMOSEXUALY WH PAEDOPHILIA. “BUT WE WERE JT WILD. ONE , ALL .”WHO AMONG THEM WILL HAVE THE URAGE TO SPEAK UP NOW?A LTLE OVER THREE YEARS AGO, I LLED ONE OF THE MEMBERS OF THE SO-LLED ALEXANDRIA EIGHT. IN THE SUMMER SCHOOL HOLIDAYS OF 1990, THEY FOUND A PHONE NUMBER ON THE WALL OF THE TOILETS ALEXANDRIA PARK. IT WAS A GAY BEAT AND WAS ADJACENT TO CLEVELAND STREET HIGH SCHOOL, WHERE MOST OF THE EIGHT TEENAGERS WENT TO SCHOOL. ONE OF THE BOYS LLED THE NUMBER AND LURED RICHARD JOHNSON TO THE TOILETS, WHERE THE GANG BASHED AND STOMPED HIM TO ATH.THOSE BOY KILLERS HAVE LONG SERVED THEIR TIME. THE ONE I NTACTED 2013 WAS BY THEN A FATHER OF FOUR. HE TOLD ME HIS ELST WAS THEN 16, THE AGE HE WAS WHEN HE MTED HIS CRIME. HE EXPRSED EP REGRET. AT SOME POT, HE SAID, HE WOULD HAVE TO S HIS KIDS DOWN AND EXPLA WHAT HE DID.I EMAILED HIM THIS YEAR TO SEE IF HE MIGHT NTRIBUTE TO THE DOCUMENTARY. HE POLELY CLED. I TRIED AGA. HE REPLIED: “I N APPRECIATE YOUR PERSISTENCE GETTG ME VOLVED AND UNRSTAND THE IMPACT ULD BRG TO THE DOCUMENTARY. HOWEVER PLEASE UNRSTAND THAT 'S DIFFICULT FOR ME TO HAVE TO REVIS THE MEMORI THAT EPLY AFFECT ME AND ULTIMATELY BRG ME DOWN.“I SEE AND HEAR THGS EVERY DAY THAT REMD ME OF WHAT I DID, AND I NVCE MYSELF EVERY DAY THAT I’M A GOOD MAN. IF YOU HAVE CHILDREN I’M SURE YOU'D UNRSTAND THE IMPORTANCE OF BEG A POSIVE FIGURE THEIR LIV. I’M A FATHER OF FOUR, MY OLST IS 18 AND MY YOUNGT IS FIVE, SO THEY THANKFULLY NSUME MY LIFE AND KEEP ME GROUND, THEY PROTECT ME OM MY MONS.”STT JOHNSON, THE 27-YEAR-OLD AMERIN WHO WAS FOUND AT THE BASE OF A CLIFF AT NORTH HEAD DECEMBER 1988. SOURCE: SUPPLIEDABOUT THE SAME TIME, I NTACTED ONE OF THE TAMARAMA THREE, THE KILLERS OF KRCHIKORN RATTANAJURATHAPORN AT BONDI 1990. HE HAD LONG AGO PLETED HIS PRISON TERM FOR THAT MURR, BUT HE WAS BACK JAIL. BY NOW HE WAS G TO THE END OF A LONG SENTENCE FOR AN ASSLT ON HIS PARTNER.HE WANTED TO BE TERVIEWED ON MERA BUT PRISON THORI WOULD NOT ALLOW , SO WE SETTLED FOR A LETTER.“I AM WRG THIS OM PRISON,” BEGAN. “IN 1990, I MURRED A GAY MAN AND SERLY ASSLTED HIS PANN.”REVOICED TO POWERFUL EFFECT THE DOCUMENTARY, HIS WORDS PROVI SOME SIGHT TO THE KD OF MDSET THAT MIGHT TURN A CHILD TO A HATEFUL KILLER. IT IS NOT AN EXCE OR ANYWHERE NEAR AN AQUATE EXPLANATN, BUT IS AN SIGHT.HE SCRIB HIS “DREAD, FEAR, ANGER, NFN” ON THAT NIGHT MARKS PARK, BUT MORE SO HIS “FALSE PRI, TEENAGE BRAVADO AND A SIRE TO MAKE OTHERS FEEL AS MISERABLE AND LONELY AS I DID AS A KID”.GAY PEOPLE WERE AN “EASY TARGET FOR AN ANGRY, MALADJTED YOUNG BOY”.ONE OF HIS CLOST IENDS NOW IS GAY. “HE’S A GOOD BLOKE.” THE IEND DO NOT REGNISE THE PERSON HE ONCE WAS. TO HIS VICTIM’S FAY: “I’M SORRY I TOOK YOUR SON’S LIFE THAT NIGHT. IF I WASN’T THERE, THEN HE WOULD NOT HAVE DIED. I NIED HIM THE OPPORTUNY TO A FULL AND HAPPY LIFE. I ED IMMEASURABLE PA AND LOSS YOUR FAY. FOR THIS, I AM SORRY.”THIS BOY KILLER WAS WILLG TO BE NAMED, TO STAND UP AS A MAN AND WEAR HIS SHAME. IT WAS A DIRECTORIAL CHOICE TO PRERVE HIS ANONYMY. HE WAS BUT ONE OF MANY, MANY GAY BASHERS.MY JOURNALISTIC STCT WOULD HAVE BEEN TO INTIFY HIM, BUT I UNRSTOOD THAT EDORIAL CHOICE. WHY SHOULD HE ALONE ANSWER FOR ALL OF THEM?ALL OF THEM. NOT ONLY THE KILLERS BUT THE THUGS WHO ROAMED PACKS AND BASHED AND MAIMED FOR SPORT, AND THE BOYS AND GIRLS ON THE SIL WHO NEVER LAID A PUNCH BUT KNOW WHO DID.WHO AMONG THEM WILL HAVE THE URAGE TO SPEAK UP NOW?IN DECEMBER, A THIRD QUT WILL BEG TO THE ATH OF AMERIN STT JOHNSON, WHOSE NAKED BODY WAS FOUND AT THE BASE OF NORTH HEAD DECEMBER 1988. HIS FAY IS NVCED HE WAS THROWN, CHASED OR IGHTENED OF THAT CLIFF TOP, YET ANOTHER GAY BEAT. POLICE ARE STILL CLED TO BELIEVE WAS SUICI. THE STATE CORONER WANTS THE TTH, WHATEVER IS.SO DO TED AND PETER RSELL, FATHER AND BROTHER OF JOHN. SO DO KAY WARREN, MOTHER OF ROSS.WHO WILL GIVE THEM THE TTH?CRIME STOPPERS: 1800 333 000CONTACT: WATCH THE DOCUMENTARY DEEP WATER: THE REAL STORY:RELATEDPOLICE ADM BLUNRS GAY-HATE MURR HUNTSHARE10 M READPUBLISHED 18 OCTOBER 2016 5:40PMUPDATED 19 OCTOBER 2016 6:20PMBY RICK FENELEYSOURCE: SBSSHARE THIS WH FAY AND IENDSCOPY LKSHARETOPICS

His name was among a list of more than 20 lked to the so-lled Bondi Boys, whose teenage members were spected, although never nvicted, of bashg and even murrg gay men on the cliffs between their beach suburb and neighbourg Tamarama.

“He’d do the same aga today, ” the mother of the basher’s children assured Blackfella Films we were stg a wi for potential subjects to appear the documentary, which aired on Sunday night on wanted to ga some sight to what motivated the gay bashers.

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