'I think what we got this week was fairness,' he told media outside the Sydney court. Speaking after the ruling, Mr Johnson's brother Steve, who had long campaigned for justice and travelled to Australia for the trial, welcomed the sentence.
Mr Johnson's death was initially ruled a suicide, but a 2017 inquest found it was likely the 27-year-old had been pushed over the cliff or fell while trying to escape assailants. Scott Phillip White, 51, had pleaded guilty to murdering US mathematician Scott Johnson, whose body was found at the base of a cliff in the city's north in December 1988. SYDNEY (AFP) - An Australian court sentenced a man to 12 years behind bars on Tuesday (May 3) over the murder of a gay American in Sydney three decades ago, in a case that highlighted a series of homophobic attacks from that era.
