Aussie sentenced to 12 years in jail after admitting he pushed gay American off cliff to his death
A Sydney man who was arrested in 2020 for fatally pushing American mathematician Scott Johnsonon the coast off Sydney some 32 years ago has been sentenced to more than a decade in jail after admitting he did it on purpose. Scott Phillip White, 51, was handed a maximum of 12 years and seven months’ imprisonment after issuing an “emphatic” guilty plea at a pre-trial hearing earlier this year.
Charged with Johnson’s murder in May 2020, a tape played at his sentencing hearing on Monday revealed that White had confessed to the killing during his arrest. “I pushed a bloke,” he said, according to the tape. “He went over the edge.” His ex-wife also told the court that White had “often bragged about bashing poofters.
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