Scott White will be sentenced in June for his role in Scott Johnson's death, which had initially been deemed a suicide.
CANBERRA, Australia — An Australian pleaded guilty on Thursday to manslaughter in the death 35 years ago of an American who fell from a Sydney clifftop that was known as a gay meeting place, with the victim’s family welcoming the turning point in their long campaign for justice.
Breakthrough evidence came last October when police intercepted a prison phone call between White and a niece in which he confessed to striking his victim at the clifftop, Johnson said. Steve Johnson with his sisters, Terry , and Rebecca and his wife Rosemarie, second right, arrive at the Supreme Court in Sydney on May 2, 2022.“Reading the black and white of his confession, in which he states that he threw the first punch, which I imagine was the only punch and my brother must have been very close to the cliff ... makes me pretty angry,” Johnson said.
Steve Johnson described the police investigation since the third inquest as “spectacular.” But he said his brother’s homicide could have been solved easily by police when he died. Steve Johnson, a wealthy entrepreneur, offered a 1 million Australian dollar reward in 2020 for information about his brother’s death, matching a reward already offered by police.White, 52, was arrested in Sydney that year and pleaded not guilty to the murder of Johnson, who was an Australian National University Ph.D. student living in the capital, Canberra, when he died.
But the judge recorded the guilty plea and White was sentenced to 12 years and seven months in prison.
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