An Australian man who admitted to killing a gay American by punching him off a cliff in 1988 has now been jailed for nine years.
An Australian man who admitted killing aScott Phillip White, 52, admitted to the manslaughter of Los Angeles-born Scott Johnson in Sydney.
'Not much is known of the death beyond a punch on a cliff, a fall from a cliff and decades of pain and grief that followed,' Justice Robert Beech-Jones said during sentencing on Thursday. White, then 18, punched Mr Johnson during a row, causing naked Mr Johnson to stagger backwards and fall to his death.
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