Police failed to prosecute a man who allegedly killed a bisexual race jockey and bar-hand in North Sydney with a metal tape dispenser three decades ago, an inquiry has heard.
A landmark royal-commission style inquiry into the deaths of gay men in NSW over four decades is examining the case of William Dutfield, an insular and lonely one-time race jockey and bar hand, who was allegedly murdered in his Mosman unit in November 1991 by his landlord and friend.
