“It’s an indelible image that is burned into the brain.” “No one can imagine what it was like to be shown his lifeless and very badly damaged body,” Mr Noone said. Michael Noone said not a day goes by where he does not hear Scott Johnson’s voice. He agreed that he was concerned about people finding out he was gay because of the general outlook on gay people in the 1980s.” “He asks about a number of times if this was going to go back to his brother about being gay and he talked to the police how it was he would meet people in that context, meet other men.

“He says that the community at that time did not have a good attitude towards gay people. “It wasn’t referred to as a gay beat, he did say a lot of gays come up here,” Ms Rigg said. Ms Rigg told the court White now identified as gay and had told police he went, at Mr Johnson’s suggestion, to North Head on the night of his death. Under cross-examination from White’s barrister Belinda Rigg, Mrs White denied allegations that she lied about those conversations or being motivated by a $1m reward police had offered anyone with information about Mr Johnson’s death.Ĭrown prosecutor Brett Hatfield said Mrs White wrote an anonymous letter to police about White and never mentioned the reward in conversations with police.