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Maeve Bannister

Johnson case detective stands by police investigation

Former detective Pamela Young has no issue with a 1988 death initially being ruled a suicide. (Bianca De Marchi/AAP PHOTOS)

An ex-detective, who sensationally claimed there was political interference in the case of a gay American mathematician, has no regrets about police resistance to the theory he had been murdered.

Former detective chief inspector Pamela Young, a supervisor on a strike force set up in 2013 to re-investigate Scott Johnson's death, says she stands by the initial police assessment that it was a suicide.

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