Gay man commits crime
Scott Johnson: Man confesses to 1988 gay hate murder
Newsbeat reporters
A man has finally confessed to the murder of Cambridge University graduate Scott Johnson after more than 30 years.
The 27-year-old's naked body was found at the bottom of North Head cliffs, a well known queer cruising ground in Sydney, Australia, back in 1988.
At the time, his death was ruled as suicide - something his family never believed.
Scott White was arrested and charged in 2020, and this week unexpectedly pleaded guilty at a pre-trial hearing.
His lawyers attempted to have the admission withdrawn, arguing that White, 50, was not mentally fit.
But on Thursday, a Supreme Court assess rejected that motion, writing the plea was entered "in a loud unmistakable voice, and in an emphatic and determined manner".
"It was inconceivable to me that Scott went somewhere and jumped off a cliff," his brother Steve told Radio 1 Newsbeat in 2018, when he was desperately campaigning for the truth behind his brother's death.
In 2005 Steve says he became attentive of inquests into similar deaths of gay men at Bondi Beach in S
Kansas City guy who pleaded remorseful to anti-gay despise crime gets 22 years in prison
A 25-year-old Kansas City man was sentenced Thursday to nearly 22 years in prison for shooting a lgbtq+ teenager eight times because of his sexual orientation.
Malachi Robinson pleaded guilty last July to one count of violating the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act by shooting a 16-year-old identified as “M.S.” in court documents.
After a chance conference at the Kansas City Public Library in May 2019, Robinson and M.S. talked briefly online, met outside the library, and walked for a occasion in Swope Park, according to court documents. Robinson suggested they walk into a wooded area to engage in a sex perform, then Robinson messaged his girlfriend that he “might shoot at this boy” because he is gay.
But M.S. changed his mind, and when he turned to leave the woods, Robinson shot him with a Taurus 9mm pistol. M.S. survived the shooting after spending two weeks in the hospital. He has since undergone multiple surgeries and has been doing physical therapy and living with several bullets inside him, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office.
U.S. District Judge Brian Wimes s
Texas man who used Grindr to aim gay men pleads guilty to abhor crime charges
A Texas man who attacked and robbed same-sex attracted men after luring them to a residence using the dating app Grindr has pleaded culpable to federal abhor crimes charges, the Justice Department announced Thursday afternoon.
During the span of a week in December 2017, 22-year-old Daniel Jenkins and at least three other men used Grindr to lure homosexual men to a vacant apartment in Dallas where they would attack and rob them.
According to Jenkins' plea, he admitted that in some instances the group would contain the gay men at gunpoint and travel with them to ATMs where they would pressure them to withdraw cash.
Jenkins pleaded culpable to one animosity crime count and one count of conspiracy to commit hate crimes after admitting he and others injured at least one of their victims and taunted others because of their sexuality.
"These defendants brutalized multiple victims, singling them out due to their sexual orientation. We cannot permit this sort of violence to fester unchecked," acting U.S. Attorney Prerak Shah of the Northern District of Texas said in a statement announcing the plea. "The Department of Jus
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Wednesday, February 15, 2023
Brooklyn Man Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison for Unprovoked Anti-Gay Attack After Pleading Guilty to Attempted Murder as a Animosity Crime
Victims Were Shopping in Bodega when Defendant and Alleged Accomplice Shouted Homophobic Slurs, Violently Attacked and Stabbed Each of the Two Victims
Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez today announced that a Bedford-Stuyvesant man who pleaded guilty to attempted murder as a hate crime in connection with an anti-gay attack against two men at a Bushwick bodega was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Both victims were assaulted and stabbed and suffered numerous injuries, including collapsed lungs.
District Attorney Gonzalez said, “This vicious attack on two naive victims was an intolerable proceed of anti-gay violence, and today’s sentence sends a strong letter that we will vigorously prosecute anyone who commits a detest crime. Nobody should fear that they’ll be attacked because of their sexual orientation or gender identity, and we are involved to vigilantly protecting the rights of Brooklyn’s LGBTQ community.”
The District Attorney identified the defendant as Christo