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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Michael Burge

Police overlooked ‘compelling’ evidence of homophobia in 1989 murder, landmark NSW inquiry hears

Kathleen Heath, council assisting the NSW commission of inquiry into LGBTQ+ hate crimes, speaking at Tuesday’s hearing.
Kathleen Heath, counsel assisting the NSW commission of inquiry into LGBTQ+ hate crimes, speaking at Tuesday’s hearing. Photograph: Supplied

Police overlooked “compelling evidence” of homophobia in the brutal 1989 Sydney murder of John Gordon Hughes, the New South Wales special commission of inquiry into LGBTQ+ hate crimes has heard.

In an inquiry described as a world first, this week’s hearings focus on seven deaths previously reviewed by NSW police’s strike force Parrabell in 2018.

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