Man Convicted of Killing American Math Genius in Australia 33 Years After Hate Crime..

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On Monday, 49-year-old Scott White confessed to the murder of Scott Johnson, whose body was found at the bottom of a cliff in Sydney in 1988.

White was charged with the crime in 2020 and had previously pleaded not guilty. However, in court earlier this week, he reportedly said: "Guilty, I am guilty, guilty."

White's attorney had attempted to have the plea struck from the record, arguing that White was unfit to make the admission. On Thursday, the Australian Supreme Court rejected the argument and convicted White of murder, according to ABC News.

Johnson was 27 years old studying to earn his PhD at the time of his death. He was a gay man, and was often referred to as a math "genius," The Age reports.

Police had originally ruled his death a suicide. His brother, Steve Johnson, continued to urge officials to re-examine the case until it was officially ruled a hate crime killing in 2017, according to the news outlet.

Man Convicted of Killing American Math Genius in Australia 33 Years After Hate Crime

On Monday, 49-year-old Scott White confessed to the murder of Scott Johnson, whose body was found at the bottom of a cliff in Sydney in 1988.

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Scott White, 51, appeared in the New South Wales state Supreme Court for a sentencing hearing after he pleaded guilty in January to the murder of the Los Angeles-born Canberra resident, whose death at the base of a North Head cliff was initially dismissed by police as suicide.

White will be sentenced by Justice Helen Wilson on Tuesday. He faces a potential sentence of life in prison.
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Sydney man admits pushing gay American off a cliff in 1988

A man told police he killed American mathematician Scott Johnson in 1988 by pushing the 27-year-old off a Sydney cliff in what prosecutors describe as a gay hate crime, a court heard on Monday. Scott...

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An Australian man confessed to the police that he murdered a gay American mathematician in 1988 by pushing him off a cliff in what prosecutors described as a hate crime, a court heard Monday.

Scott White, 51, appeared in the New South Wales state Supreme Court for a sentencing hearing after he pleaded guilty in January to the murder of 27-year-old Scott Johnson in Sydney.

The victim was a Los Angeles native who was working on a doctorate in mathematics at Australian National University and living in Canberra at the time.

Prosecutor Brett Hatfield said the precise details of the murder were not known and that White’s accounts had varied.

White had met Johnson in a bar in suburban Manly and Johnson had stripped naked at the clifftop before he died, Hatfield said. He said the gravity of the murder was significantly elevated because it was motivated by the victim’s sexuality.

Johnson’s death by fall was initially dismissed by the Sydney police as suicide.

White faces up to life in prison when he is sentenced by Justice Helen Wilson on Tuesday.

“I pushed a bloke. He went over the edge,” White said in a recorded police interview in 2020 that was played in court Monday.

White said in the interview he lied when he had earlier told police that he had tried to grab Johnson and prevent his fatal fall.

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Australian admits to pushing gay US mathematician off cliff in 1988 hate-crime murder

Scott White, 51, is expected to be sentenced in Australia Tuesday for the 1988 murder of Scott Johnson, a 27-year-old American doctoral student who was pushed off a Sydney cliff for being gay.

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So did the guilt finally get the better of him?
That's a devil of a long time to carry around something like that without going insane.
Unless of course he has.