it may bring some peace' for Dr Johnson's grieving family, who have spent the last 34 years fighting for justice. Justice Wilson acknowledged the outcome would 'unlikely to end the grief. Justice Wilson found there was not enough evidence 'beyond reasonable doubt' to show the murder was a gay hate crime, however, because White had met Dr Johnson at the Brighton Hotel and the pair had willingly gone to the gay beat together. The fatal assault was done with reckless indifference to human life, with White throwing the punch near the unguarded edge of a high coastal cliff and then fleeing the scene without notifying the police after Dr Johnson disappeared over the edge. ' did a violent act and that act is the direct cause of Dr Johnson leaving the clifftop in terror,' the judge said. Justice Wilson found that he had punched Mr Johnson at North Head in a hostile act, causing the doctor to fall to his death. White showed no emotion in the court dock as Justice Helen Wilson handed down his sentence on Tuesday. 'It was a stubborn case, it just took a long while but I'm really glad we've finally come to this conclusion.' 'I think most brothers and sisters would have done the same for their loved ones,' he said. He said the three decade fight and countless trips from the other side of the world to bring his brother's killer to justice went for 'way too long'.īut he believed Scott would be proud and would have done the same for him. 'I hope I'm not back because of this case but I do hope my family and I return because I love this country and Sydney,' he said. Mr Johnson said it will be very sad to leave Australia and has vowed to return. Scott Johnson's family put on a united front as they leave the NSW Supreme Court after Scott Phillip White was sentenced over the mathematician's murder on Tuesday 'We have a long list people to thank for making today happen and that the killer is in jail and will be spending a good while in jail.' 'I think what we got this week was fairness,' his brother said outside court. Mr Johnson's brother, sister-in-law and two sisters travelled from the US this week to give harrowing statements about the impact Scott White had on their family and the 'beautiful man' he destroyed. White isn't eligible for parole until August 2030. NSW Police haven't confirmed whether a reward was paid to Ms White. She also refuted claims she went to police because the $1million on offer, claiming she never heard about the reward because she lived interstate at the time. On Monday, Ms White denied suggestions by White's legal team she had made up the conversations with her then-husband.
Ms White penned an anonymous letter to police detailing what White had told her and her former husband was charged with murder the following year.
Scott Phillip White (pictured) will spend at least eight years behind bars over Scott Johnson's murder 34 years agoĪfter seeing the gay-hate murder program, Ms White decided to do research and came across news of a police strike force set up to investigate Mr Johnson's death, which offering a $1 million reward for new information that led to a conviction. And he said, 'It's not my fault the dumb c*** ran off the cliff',' Ms White told the court. 'He said the only good poofter is a dead poofter, to which I said, 'So you threw him off the cliff'. White told the court shortly before the couple split in 2008, she read a newspaper article in a about Johnson’s death and asked White if he was responsible. She had confronted her husband twice about Mr Johnson's death during their 16 years together in 1998 and again 10 years later, having previously heard him 'brag' about 'bashing poofters'.
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The court heard how Ms White wrote an anonymous letter to police in 2019 after watching a TV show about gay-hate murders. Mr Johnson's death may have remained unresolved if it wasn't for Ms White's decision to testify against her ex. White was raised in a homophobic family before he came out as gay years later, the sentencing process revealed this week. 'She sacrificed our safety to do that and to bravely testified in court yesterday.' 'We have someone new to thank, his ex-wife Helen White who courageously came forward,' his brother Steve told reporters outside court.