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American mathematician killed for being gay

Photo: Facebook / Justice for Scott Johnson

In 1988, the 27 year-old mathematician Scott Johnson died in Sydney, falling from a cliff onto stones in the sea. For 30 years, the authorities considered his death a suicide. According to the results of the new investigation, it turned out that Johnson was killed - because he was gay, says the publication Meduza.

On Saturday morning, 10, December 1988, a man’s body was found near a cliff on the northern cape of Sydney: he was noticed by an 13-year-old teenager, who went with his father for underwater fishing. A naked corpse lay on the rocks under a 60-meter rock, washed by the sea. Upstairs, the police found clothes neatly folded. In his shirt pocket were documents addressed to 27-year-old Scott Johnson.

Mathematician Scott Johnson came to Australia from the USA to write a dissertation, he was engaged in research in the field of category theory. The American scientific adviser Ross Street spoke of him as a promising scientist. In Australia, Johnson lived with his boyfriend - an Australian, whom he met in Cambridge. He planned to stay in Australia and applied for a permanent residence permit.

On the morning of December 8, Johnson called his mentor Ross Street and told him that he had invented a new solution to the mathematical problem he was working on. They agreed to meet next week.

Photo: Facebook / Justice for Scott Johnson

The police considered the death of Scott Johnson suicide. The coroner, who studied the circumstances of the mathematician’s death, agreed with the police. The case was quickly closed, although no thorough investigation was carried out. The police did not even photograph the found things of Johnson at the top of the cliff and did not attach any importance to the fact that there was not his wallet. They did not care where exactly the American died. At this deserted cape, located away from the respectable district of Manly, were going to gay men who were looking for sexual partners.

Years later, authorities acknowledged that homophobic gangs were operating in the Cape district. Out of hate and for the sake of entertainment, they organized attacks on gays and robbed them. The police were anti-gay at the time, and they were afraid to contact them after the attacks.

In the 2005 year, an investigation began, which showed that in the same period that Johnson died, at least three more people were pushed off the cliffs. When the brother of the deceased American Stephen Johnson found out about this investigation, he finally became convinced that his brother did not commit suicide, but was killed. In 2012, under pressure from Stephen Johnson, the coroner conducted a new investigation into the circumstances of the death. He delivered a less definite verdict: the death could be both murder and suicide. The coroner recommended investigating the circumstances of the death of Scott Jones again.

In 2016, the coroner of the state of New South Wales, Michael Barnes, launched the third investigation and on 30 in November, 2017 announced the results. In conclusion, it is said that, most likely, Scott Johnson was killed. According to Barnes, either the attackers pushed him off a cliff, or Johnson jumped off himself, because he had nowhere to run. Barnes believes that the attacker was probably not alone: ​​Johnson was an athletic man, and he would deal with one person.

In conclusion, the coroner provides evidence of members of groups that persecuted gay men in Sydney. One of the witnesses said that the local gang of skinheads boasted about the murder of the “American fagot”. It was not possible to confirm this testimony, since the person to whom the witness pointed dead.

Michael Barnes considers the version of suicide less probable - for several reasons. People rarely commit suicide in the nude, the mathematician did not suffer from mental disorders and literally on the day of his death made plans for his dissertation. By chance, he could not fall - things were folded in 10 meters from the cliff, and the path to it was so stony that it was difficult to walk barefoot. Barnes writes in his conclusion that Johnson was undressed because he was going to have sex with someone.

The New South Wales State Police, which includes Sydney, has been reviewing the 2013 man’s death in 88-1976 since 2000. About ten of them died, falling off a cliff.

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