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The ex-wife of a man who pleaded guilty to murdering Scott Johnson in 1988 told a court that her ex-husband bragged about assaulting gay men.
Helen, Scott White’s ex-partner, handed him over to the authorities in the year 2019 and revealed conversations they had more than 30 years before.
Johnson was found dead at the bottom of a cliff at Blue Fish Point, in the vicinity of Manly’s North Head, the from December to 1988.
The death of Johnson, at 27 years old, it was initially considered a suicide, despite the fact that the area was a very popular gay neighborhood, therefore, it was a target for gangs.
Scott White admitted in January of this year to being responsible for Johnson’s murder.
White’s ex-wife told him that she and her ex-partner talked about the of the victim after she read an article about it the year the incident occurred.
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“I remember asking if this is one of the gay men he hit.”
“He said ‘that feminine-looking queer,’” he said, adding: “He often bragged about beating up ‘faggots.’”
When it came up again in 2008, “I just asked him ‘did you do this ?’” White’s ex-wife said.
She told the court that he said “the only good fag is a dead fag”, to which she replied: “So you threw it away for the price? picio?”
Helen White commented that Scott White told her: “It’s not my Blame the idiot for jumping off the cliff.” “Well, it is, if you chased him,” she replied.
Scott White faces the possibility of life in prison for Scott Johnson’s murder. Prosecutors said his death, initially dismissed as a suicide, was a gay hate crime. https://t.co/8ZfgKo7Rxa
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The court heard the statements of Johnson’s men and his partner at the time of his murder, about the impact it had on their lives . His older brother, Stephen, spoke of growing up in a poor neighborhood in California in the United States, and like his younger sister, he always had “big dreams.”
“We all reacted to Scott’s death with disbelief because he was too big and horrible to be true,” said the older Johnson. “I will never forget our mother crying when I called her to tell her that her youngest child had died. I think her agony over losing Scott never left her for the rest of her life.”
“Our mother was never the same after Scott’s death. He spent his last years grieving and, What’s worse, he spent those years wondering what happened to his son”
The judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales will give a sentence for White this coming Tuesday.
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