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Former NSW homicide squad boss concedes gay-hate death findings overturned

Former NSW Police deputy commissioner Mick Willing was called as a witness in an inquiry into historic gay-hate crimes. (Supplied)

New South Wales' former homicide squad boss concedes it's "extraordinary" a secret strike force effectively reversed coronial findings over the suspected gay-hate deaths of three men in the 1980s without speaking to any persons of interest.

Mick Willing, who commanded the homicide squad between 2011 and 2017, is giving evidence at a special commission of inquiry into suspected LGBT hate deaths in NSW between 1970 and 2010.

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