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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Michael Burge

‘He was a beautiful man’: one man’s long journey to justice for the killing of his brother

Steve and Scott Johnson in their last photograph together in 1988
Steve and Scott Johnson in their last photograph together in 1988 – the year Scott’s body was found at the bottom of a cliff in Sydney Harbour. Photograph: Steve Johnson

Steve Johnson would be forgiven for turning his back on Australia, the nation that took more than three decades to properly investigate the death of his brother, Scott Johnson, at North Head, Manly, in 1988. Yet he has an affinity with this country, a connection that appears to transcend crime and punishment.

The 65-year-old US IT entrepreneur is speaking to me via Zoom from California before he travels back to Australia for the 26th time, on this occasion not to attend a courtroom or plead for justice but to promote his memoir, A Thousand Miles from Care.

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