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Man charged with murder over death of gay man who fell from cliff more than 30 years ago

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Police have today charged a man with the murder of a US man who was allegedly pushed from the top of a cliff in Australia 32 years ago.

Scott Johnson's body was found at the foot of a cliff at Blue Fish Point in east Sydney, Australia on Saturday, December 10, 1988.

He was a 27-year-old American citizen who was in Australia studying for a PHD. An inquest was held in 1989 and found Scott had committed suicide, but his family always rejected this assertion and called for a more stringent investigation.

A second inquest, held in June 2012, returned an open verdict and a third inquest was then held in 2017. That inquest determined that: "Mr Johnson fell from the cliff top as a result of actual or threatened violence by unidentified persons who

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