She said she replied that “it is if you chased him” and her husband didn’t respond.Īt the time of Mr Johnson’s death, gangs of homophobic men were roaming the streets of Sydney searching for gay men to assault, rob and sometimes kill, a coroner on the case said in 2017. She said she asked him if he had killed the gay man to which White allegedly responded that “the only good p*****r is a dead p*****r” before adding that “it’s not my fault the dumb c**t ran off the cliff”. She said she confronted him about Mr Johnson’s death again two decades later in September 2008 when the story resurfaced in the media. When she asked White if he was responsible for the killing, she said he replied “of that girly looking p*****r?” and they got into “a bit of an argument”. The first time was not long after the 27-year-old’s murder in 1988 when she read about his death in a newspaper.
She said that she had asked him on two occasions if he had killed Mr Johnson. His ex-wife Helen also revealed to the court that White often “bragged” about attacking gay men in his youth over the years, even telling stories of the assaults to their children. White had previously been questioned by police over the killing but claimed he had tried to stop his victim from falling to death. On Monday, the court heard audio from White’s 2020 police confession where he admitted: “I pushed a bloke.
