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- GAY BASHGS, HOMOPHOBIA: FORMER P RELLS HORROR YEARS NSW POLICE FORCE
- PH FOR QUIRY TO GAY HATE CRIM TO VTIGATE CLAIMS POLICE TURNED BLD EYE
- MAN SPEAKS OUT ABOUT BOYIEND’S BTAL GAY BASHG SYDNEY
- 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
- MAN BASHED WATERLOO 'FOR BEG QUEER', ONE OF TWO SPECTED GAY BASHGS SYDNEY
- SYDNEY MAN BEATEN UNNSC IN TWO SEPARATE GAY-BASHGS IN ONE NIGHT"I HONTLY THOUGHT I WAS GOG TO DIE."{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}NEWSBY MATTHEW THARRETTFEBARY 23, 2016/4:56 PMBY MATTHEW THARRETTFEBARY 23, 2016 / 4:56 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"SYDNEY MAN BEATEN UNNSC IN TWO SEPARATE GAY-BASHGS IN ONE NIGHT","DATEPUBLISHED":"2016-02-23T21:56:03.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2016-02-23T21:56:03.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"MATTHEW THARRETT","ARTICLESECTN":"NEWS"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}POLICE SYDNEY ARE STILL SEARCHG FOR GROUPS OF SPECTED GAY-BASHERS WHO ASSLTED AT LEAST TWO GAY MEN THE EARLY HOURS OF SUNDAY MORNG, JT WEEKS BEFORE THE CY CELEBRAT S LGBT DIVERSY AT THE ANNUAL SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDIS GRAS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ONE OF THE VICTIMS, 22-YEAR-OLD DYLAN SOTER, SCRIBED TWO SEPARATE ATTACKS HE SUFFERED ONE NIGHT TAIL TO THE SYDNEY MORNG {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SOTER CLAIMS HE WAS ATTACKED AND BEATEN UNNSC FIRST NEAR HIS HOME WATERLOO, AND AGA BY A GOOD SAMARAN WHO IALLY TRIED TO HELP HIM AS HE WALKED HOME. AFTER THE MAN DISVERED SOTER HAD A BOYIEND, SOTER CLAIMS THE MAN PUNCHED HIM THE FACE AND LLED HIM "A QUEER."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SOTER WAS ON THE STREET THE EARLY MORNG HOURS BEE HE AND HIS BOYIEND, 27-YEAR-OLD DARREN HEDRMAN, HAD HAD IENDS OVER TO THEIR APARTMENT SATURDAY EVENG, AND SOTER WAS WALKG THEM DOWNSTAIRS TO HAIL A {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"HE WALKED UP MCEVOY STREET A LTLE B AND ULDN'T SEE THEM [THEIR GUTS], SO HE TURNED AROUND," DARREN TOLD THE PAPER, DITG HE ONLY LEARNED OF THE ATTACK ONCE HIS BOYIEND RETURNED TO THEIR APARTMENT WH A "SWOLLEN JAW AND EYE, LUMPS AND CUTS OVER HIS FACE, [AND] A SPL LIP AND BISG OVER HIS BODY."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"AS HE TURNED AROUND, SOMEBODY H HIM, AND THE NEXT THG HE REMEMBERS IS WAKG UP WATERLOO OVAL BEG KICKED THE HEAD. HE DON'T KNOW HOW HE GOT TO THE OVAL. WE DON'T KNOW WHETHER HE WAS DRAGGED THERE OR WHETHER HE RAN, HE DON'T REMEMBER."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE SMH REPORTS:{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"THEY FALLY STOPPED KICKG HIM THE OVAL AND [MR SOTER] STARTED TO E HOME. HE MET A GUY ON THE STREET AND ASKED HIM FOR HELP, AND THE GUY SAID 'YEAH, NO PROBLEM, ARE YOU OK? WHAT HAPPENED?" MR HEDRMAN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"SO THE GUY WALKED HIM ALL THE WAY BACK TO OUR APARTMENT BLOCK."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AT THE APARTMENT BLOCK, THE MAN ASKED MR SOTER IF HE WANTED HIM TO LL HIS GIRLIEND TO TAKE HIM UPSTAIRS. MR SOTER REPLIED THAT HIS BOYIEND WAS THEIR APARTMENT, AND HE ULD GO TO {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"AND HE SAID 'OH YOU HAVE A BOYIEND, YOU'RE A QUEER', AND HE H HIM THE FACE," MR HEDRMAN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SOTER TOLD GAY STAR NEWS THAT HE'S EXPERIENCED HOMOPHOBIC ABE SYDNEY BEFORE BUT WAS NEVER {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HE REUNTED THE NIGHT'S EVENTS HIS OWN WORDS:{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"THE FIRST ATTACK WAS A PLETE BLUR. I WAS LERALLY ACROSS THE ROAD OM MY APARTMENT WHEN I WENT TO TURN AROUND AND WALK HOME, AFTER REALIZG THAT MY IENDS HAD LEFT AND GOT TO A TAXI OR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}I JT REMEMBER BEG H THE FACE BY A MALE. AFTER THIS I DON’T KNOW IF I RAN TOWARDS THE OVAL SHOCK TO GET AWAY OR WHETHER HE FORCED ME THERE BUT I REMEMBER WAKG UP THE OVAL BEG KICKED AND PUNCHED ALL OVER MY BODY BY A GROUP OF {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}I DON’T KNOW IF WAS BEE I AM GAY BUT TO LOOK AT ME YOU’D KNOW I AM GAY AND PECIALLY WH A FEW DRKS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE GUY THAT TRIED TO HELP ME SEEMED GENUE AS HE WALKED ME WH 50METERS OF MY APARTMENT. IT WAS ONLY WHEN HE ASKED WHAT HAD HAPPENED AND I MENTNED THAT ME AND MY BOYIEND THAT HE EAKED OUT AND SAID, "YOU’RE ONE OF THOSE FAGS, YA FUCKG QUEER CUNT."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THEN HE TURNED ON ME AND H ME TO THE FACE, FULL FORCE. I THEN RAN HOME THKG HE WAS FOLLOWG BUT HE HAD TURNED AWAY AND RAN, ACRDG TO {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SOTER TOLD GAY STAR NEWS HE "HONTLY THOUGHT I WAS GOG TO DIE THAT OVAL," AND THAT HE'S "TERRIFIED" TO LEAVE HIS APARTMENT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}POLICE ARE STILL VTIGATG THE ATTACKS ON SOTER AS WELL AS ANOTHER SEPARATE SPECTED ANTI-GAY ATTACK ON SUNDAY MORNG SURRY HILLS, WHERE TWO MEN REPORTEDLY JUMPED AND BEAT ANOTHER GAY MAN. POLICE BELIEVE THE ATTACKS WERE ALL RRIED OUT BY DIFFERENT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"THE OCCURRENCE OF TWO BIAS-RELATED ASSLTS OVER ONE WEEKEND IS NOT MON, AND OF NCERN TO POLICE," NSW POLICE SEXUALY AND GENR DIVERSY SPOKMAN SUPERTENNT TONY CRANLL SAID ON {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"WH MARDI GRAS SEASON UPON AND WH LARGER NUMBERS OF PEOPLE VISG SYDNEY'S NER SUBURBS, HELP POLICE TO KEEP YOU SAFE BY BEG AWARE OF OUR SURROUNDGS AT ALL TIM AND LLG TRIPLE ZERO IF YOU FEEL UNR THREAT."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
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GAY BASHGS, HOMOPHOBIA: FORMER P RELLS HORROR YEARS NSW POLICE FORCE
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”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.
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. 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.
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 bashings sydney *
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.
MAN SPEAKS OUT ABOUT BOYIEND’S BTAL GAY BASHG SYDNEY
From the late 1980s, a wave of btal murrs swept Sydney’s clifftops. The victims were gay men; police barely bothered vtigatg." name="scriptn * gay bashings sydney *
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.
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
A gay man livg Sydney, Atralia is speakg out and sharg tails of the btal gay bashg that left his boyiend wh a swollen jaw and eye, lumps and cuts on his face, a spl lip and bisg all over his body. * gay bashings sydney *
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. As Sue Thompson, a former state ombudsman’s vtigator who joed the police force 1990 to ordate s liaison wh the gay and lbian muny, tells me the podst: “Cliffs were the easit weapon; you didn’t have to rry anythg wh you.
”For Thompson, beg a liaison officer was eply personal: one of her close iends, a gay man, had been murred only months before she took the role, and she was ls than imprsed wh the police rponse. 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.
MAN BASHED WATERLOO 'FOR BEG QUEER', ONE OF TWO SPECTED GAY BASHGS SYDNEY
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 bashings sydney *
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.
Earlier this year, the fdgs om an 18-month parliamentary quiry, Gay and Transgenr Hate Crim between 1970 and 2010, found that the NSW Police Force had failed s rponsibily to properly vtigate historil hate crim.
SYDNEY MAN BEATEN UNNSC IN TWO SEPARATE GAY-BASHGS IN ONE NIGHT"I HONTLY THOUGHT I WAS GOG TO DIE."{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}NEWSBY MATTHEW THARRETTFEBARY 23, 2016/4:56 PMBY MATTHEW THARRETTFEBARY 23, 2016 / 4:56 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"SYDNEY MAN BEATEN UNNSC IN TWO SEPARATE GAY-BASHGS IN ONE NIGHT","DATEPUBLISHED":"2016-02-23T21:56:03.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2016-02-23T21:56:03.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"MATTHEW THARRETT","ARTICLESECTN":"NEWS"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}POLICE SYDNEY ARE STILL SEARCHG FOR GROUPS OF SPECTED GAY-BASHERS WHO ASSLTED AT LEAST TWO GAY MEN THE EARLY HOURS OF SUNDAY MORNG, JT WEEKS BEFORE THE CY CELEBRAT S LGBT DIVERSY AT THE ANNUAL SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDIS GRAS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ONE OF THE VICTIMS, 22-YEAR-OLD DYLAN SOTER, SCRIBED TWO SEPARATE ATTACKS HE SUFFERED ONE NIGHT TAIL TO THE SYDNEY MORNG {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SOTER CLAIMS HE WAS ATTACKED AND BEATEN UNNSC FIRST NEAR HIS HOME WATERLOO, AND AGA BY A GOOD SAMARAN WHO IALLY TRIED TO HELP HIM AS HE WALKED HOME. AFTER THE MAN DISVERED SOTER HAD A BOYIEND, SOTER CLAIMS THE MAN PUNCHED HIM THE FACE AND LLED HIM "A QUEER."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SOTER WAS ON THE STREET THE EARLY MORNG HOURS BEE HE AND HIS BOYIEND, 27-YEAR-OLD DARREN HEDRMAN, HAD HAD IENDS OVER TO THEIR APARTMENT SATURDAY EVENG, AND SOTER WAS WALKG THEM DOWNSTAIRS TO HAIL A {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"HE WALKED UP MCEVOY STREET A LTLE B AND ULDN'T SEE THEM [THEIR GUTS], SO HE TURNED AROUND," DARREN TOLD THE PAPER, DITG HE ONLY LEARNED OF THE ATTACK ONCE HIS BOYIEND RETURNED TO THEIR APARTMENT WH A "SWOLLEN JAW AND EYE, LUMPS AND CUTS OVER HIS FACE, [AND] A SPL LIP AND BISG OVER HIS BODY."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"AS HE TURNED AROUND, SOMEBODY H HIM, AND THE NEXT THG HE REMEMBERS IS WAKG UP WATERLOO OVAL BEG KICKED THE HEAD. HE DON'T KNOW HOW HE GOT TO THE OVAL. WE DON'T KNOW WHETHER HE WAS DRAGGED THERE OR WHETHER HE RAN, HE DON'T REMEMBER."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE SMH REPORTS:{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"THEY FALLY STOPPED KICKG HIM THE OVAL AND [MR SOTER] STARTED TO E HOME. HE MET A GUY ON THE STREET AND ASKED HIM FOR HELP, AND THE GUY SAID 'YEAH, NO PROBLEM, ARE YOU OK? WHAT HAPPENED?" MR HEDRMAN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"SO THE GUY WALKED HIM ALL THE WAY BACK TO OUR APARTMENT BLOCK."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AT THE APARTMENT BLOCK, THE MAN ASKED MR SOTER IF HE WANTED HIM TO LL HIS GIRLIEND TO TAKE HIM UPSTAIRS. MR SOTER REPLIED THAT HIS BOYIEND WAS THEIR APARTMENT, AND HE ULD GO TO {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"AND HE SAID 'OH YOU HAVE A BOYIEND, YOU'RE A QUEER', AND HE H HIM THE FACE," MR HEDRMAN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SOTER TOLD GAY STAR NEWS THAT HE'S EXPERIENCED HOMOPHOBIC ABE SYDNEY BEFORE BUT WAS NEVER {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HE REUNTED THE NIGHT'S EVENTS HIS OWN WORDS:{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"THE FIRST ATTACK WAS A PLETE BLUR. I WAS LERALLY ACROSS THE ROAD OM MY APARTMENT WHEN I WENT TO TURN AROUND AND WALK HOME, AFTER REALIZG THAT MY IENDS HAD LEFT AND GOT TO A TAXI OR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}I JT REMEMBER BEG H THE FACE BY A MALE. AFTER THIS I DON’T KNOW IF I RAN TOWARDS THE OVAL SHOCK TO GET AWAY OR WHETHER HE FORCED ME THERE BUT I REMEMBER WAKG UP THE OVAL BEG KICKED AND PUNCHED ALL OVER MY BODY BY A GROUP OF {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}I DON’T KNOW IF WAS BEE I AM GAY BUT TO LOOK AT ME YOU’D KNOW I AM GAY AND PECIALLY WH A FEW DRKS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE GUY THAT TRIED TO HELP ME SEEMED GENUE AS HE WALKED ME WH 50METERS OF MY APARTMENT. IT WAS ONLY WHEN HE ASKED WHAT HAD HAPPENED AND I MENTNED THAT ME AND MY BOYIEND THAT HE EAKED OUT AND SAID, "YOU’RE ONE OF THOSE FAGS, YA FUCKG QUEER CUNT."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THEN HE TURNED ON ME AND H ME TO THE FACE, FULL FORCE. I THEN RAN HOME THKG HE WAS FOLLOWG BUT HE HAD TURNED AWAY AND RAN, ACRDG TO {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SOTER TOLD GAY STAR NEWS HE "HONTLY THOUGHT I WAS GOG TO DIE THAT OVAL," AND THAT HE'S "TERRIFIED" TO LEAVE HIS APARTMENT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}POLICE ARE STILL VTIGATG THE ATTACKS ON SOTER AS WELL AS ANOTHER SEPARATE SPECTED ANTI-GAY ATTACK ON SUNDAY MORNG SURRY HILLS, WHERE TWO MEN REPORTEDLY JUMPED AND BEAT ANOTHER GAY MAN. POLICE BELIEVE THE ATTACKS WERE ALL RRIED OUT BY DIFFERENT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"THE OCCURRENCE OF TWO BIAS-RELATED ASSLTS OVER ONE WEEKEND IS NOT MON, AND OF NCERN TO POLICE," NSW POLICE SEXUALY AND GENR DIVERSY SPOKMAN SUPERTENNT TONY CRANLL SAID ON {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"WH MARDI GRAS SEASON UPON AND WH LARGER NUMBERS OF PEOPLE VISG SYDNEY'S NER SUBURBS, HELP POLICE TO KEEP YOU SAFE BY BEG AWARE OF OUR SURROUNDGS AT ALL TIM AND LLG TRIPLE ZERO IF YOU FEEL UNR THREAT."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
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 * gay bashings sydney *
A gay man livg Sydney, Atralia is speakg out and sharg tails of the btal gay bashg that left his boyiend wh a swollen jaw and eye, lumps and cuts on his face, a spl lip and bisg all over his body. Darren Hedrman (27) says that his boyiend, Dylan Soter (22), was first attacked by a group of youths and then gay-bashed by a “Good Samaran-turned-bad” who was helpg Soter after his first asslt until he learned that he is gay. 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.
NSW QUIRY TO VTIGATE 40 YEARS OF UNSOLVED SYDNEY GAY HATE ATHS
Police Sydney are still searchg for groups of spected gay-bashers who asslted at least two gay men the early hours of Sunday morng, jt weeks before the cy celebrat s LGBT diversy at the annual Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardis Gras para. * gay bashings sydney *
"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. 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.
Police Sydney are still searchg for groups of spected gay-bashers who asslted at least two gay men the early hours of Sunday morng, jt weeks before the cy celebrat s LGBT diversy at the annual Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardis Gras of the victims, 22-year-old Dylan Soter, scribed two separate attacks he suffered one night tail to the Sydney Morng Herald. Soter told Gay Star News he "hontly thought I was gog to die that oval, " and that he's "terrified" to leave his apartment are still vtigatg the attacks on Soter as well as another separate spected anti-gay attack on Sunday morng Surry Hills, where two men reportedly jumped and beat another gay man. 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 LICENCE TO BASH GAYS': 1980S CRIME WAVE REVISED NEW TV SERI
A Supreme Court judge has been selected to vtigate the e and manner of 88 spected gay hate aths Sydney to give fai answers and close a dark chapter the state's history. * gay bashings sydney *
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.
”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.
GAY BASHG ALLEGATNS AT NSW QUT
An extensive review has found almost one third of 88 spic aths 24 years have been gay-hate crim." name="scriptn * gay bashings sydney *
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. "Society slow to tch up wh lawsHomosexual sex was crimalised New South Wal 1984, and the feral Sex Discrimatn Act - which mak an offence to discrimate agast someone based on their sexual orientatn - was passed the same that didn't mean that people were ol wh lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex (LGBTI) people. The argument is that the acced uld be "provoked" to killg someone if they make non-vlent sexual advanc towards so-lled "gay panic fence" had been phased out other stat between 2003 and 2008, but remas on the books those two stat - meang 2016 's still possible to downgra murr charge when a gay man is the victim.
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. "Totally unte, " replied the wns, who nied beg a skhead as a nials were part of evince heard behd closed doors last week but played for journalists on qut on Monday heard om other men who grew up on Sydney's northern beach, cludg some who admted beg prent at gay were all juvenil at the time and nnot be named.
'UGLY PART OF OUR HISTORY': SYDNEY'S WAVE OF GAY-HATE ATHS EXPOSED
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. * gay bashings sydney *
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. An extensive review of 88 spic aths Sydney between 1976 and 2000 has revealed almost a third were the rult of crim volvg spected or nfirmed gay-hate to 10 crimal vtigators have spent three years reviewg the aths, which had been highlighted by rearchers as havg potential gay-hate bias motivatn, or a nnectn wh the LGBTIQ as Strike Force Parrabell, the vtigatn's report, to be ma public on Wednday, has found evince of gay-hate bias or spected bias 27 s while 23 of the aths also rema of the 88 aths were removed om the vtigatn - one bee took place outsi of NSW and the other had no rerds to Rsell's body was found at the base of a cliff at Tamarama.
MURRO RAMPAGE OF GAY-HATE GANGS
"Among the unsolved is the ath of John Rsell, whose life was cut short 1989 when he was disvered at the base of a cliff below Marks Park, a known gay beat below the Bondi to Tamarama astal Rsell, 31, was the midst of planng to travel around Atralia when he was found lyg on rocks below the cliff wh extensive juri. Mr Warren's body has never been ath of young mathematician Stt Johnson, whose 1988 ath was also termed to be the rult of a gay hate crime durg an extraordary third ronial qut November last fdg was reaffirmed by Strike Force Force Parrabell was lnched followg a submissn to the Atralian Instute of Crimology 2013, which intified potential gay-hate motivatns 88 spic aths across the wake of the submissn and subsequent media reports, police intified an urgent need to unver evince of homosexual bias among the 88 aths, as well as addrs allegatns of liberate police actn, police participatn gay bashgs and police btaly.
In most of the 23 unsolved aths, such as that of 61-year-old Cyril Olsen who was found floatg face down Rhcutters Bay Augt 1992, vtigators said they had sufficient rmatn to tablish if was, or wasn't a bias those nfirmed to be gay-hate killgs, by both Parrabell and the pennt universy review team, was the murr of Patrick O'Neill at the hands of an 18-year-old male O'Neill was found ad his un on Bayswater Road Kgs Cross 68-year-old had been stabbed numero tim to his cht and throat, before he was vered newspapers and clothg and set alight. Raymond Keam was found ad Alison Park, Randwick January Randall Walsh, then 18, had left the Kgs Cross apartment after engagg nsensual sex wh Mr O'Neill, only to return wh a pair of scissors he would e to flict the vic subsequent police terviews Walsh ma repeated rogatory ments about homosexuals, while also acknowledgg nfn over his own was nvicted of manslghter and sentenced to 12 years jail.