His lawyer also revealed White was gay himself and had long been afraid of his homophobic brother finding out about sexuality. White's legal team claimed his ex-wife's evidence was fabricated and that their client's culpability should be reduced because of his compromised intellectual and psychiatric state, and the fact he was 18 at the time of the crime. "I got to tell him what my brother was like, I got to tell him how it felt to hear he was dead."įormer NSW police commissioner Mick Fuller previously said Johnson's murder was one of the most difficult cases he had worked on and that officers should be "embarrassed" about their failures to investigate gay hate crimes in the 70s and 80s. "Being able to express myself in court, being able to look him in the eye was really important," he said. Outside court he told the media how important it was to be in the same room as his brother's murderer.
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