An Australian has pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of an American who fell to his death 35 years ago from a Sydney clifftop that was known as a gay meeting place. Scott White’s admission comes after his murder conviction was overturned on appeal.
Scott White’s admission in the New South Wales state Supreme Court comes three months after he had his conviction for murdering Scott Johnson overturned by an appeals court.
The family of the Los Angeles-born Johnson had fought for years to overturn an initial finding that the 27-year-old mathematician had taken his own life in 1988. Johnson’s Boston-based older brother Steve Johnson told Australian Broadcasting Corp. that Thursday’s proceedings “might be the most emotional moment yet.” The sibling had watched the Sydney court hearing online from the United States.
“The police work that continued during the appeal and after the appeal to get that one last piece of evidence that brought him to the table ... so that we could negotiate this, I’m incredibly thankful,” Johnson said.He did not say what the new evidence was. But media have reported police had intercepted a prison phone call between White and a relative in October last year in which he confessed to striking his victim at the clifftop.
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