Australian who punched gay American from clifftop ‘deserves no leniency’

Steve Johnson, the brother of Scott Johnson, speaks to the media outside the New South Wales Supreme Court in Sydney (Dan Himbrechts/AAP Image/AP)

A man who admitted killing American mathematician Scott Johnson by punching him from a clifftop at a gay meeting place in Sydney in 1988 deserves no leniency and should face the longest time in jail, the victim’s brother said.

Scott Phillip White, 52, appeared in the New South Wales state Supreme Court for a sentencing hearing after pleading guilty to manslaughter.