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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Rod McGuirk

Sydney court overturns conviction for gay American's murder

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An appeals court on Friday overturned the conviction a man who temporarily admitted murdering an American who fell to his death in 1988 from a Sydney cliff top that was known as a gay meeting place.

Scott White, 52, was sentenced in May to 12 years and seven months in prison for the murder of 27-year-old mathematician Scott Johnson.

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