Justice Wilson found that he had punched Mr Johnson at North Head in a hostile act, causing the doctor to fall to his death. He showed no emotion in the court dock as Justice Helen Wilson handed down his sentence on Tuesday. White had previously indicated he would plead not guilty before changing his plea at a pre-trial hearing in January.
White will be eligible for parole in eight years in August 2030.įor more than three decades, Mr Johnson's death was dismissed by police as suicide before White was charged with murder in 2020 after a lengthy campaign by his loved ones and the media. Scott Phillip White, 51, was jailed for a maximum of 12 years and seven months on Tuesday over the murder of Scott Johnson, 27, whose naked body was found at the bottom of a cliff on Sydney's northern beaches in December 1988. A man who recently admitted murdering an American mathematician found at the bottom of a Sydney cliff 34 years ago in a gay hate crime has come out as gay himself, a court has heard.
