Inquiry into LGBTQ+ hate crimes told a ‘mosaic of motives’ showed anti-gay bias in killing of John Hughes
Police overlooked “compelling evidence” of homophobia in the brutal 1989 Sydney murder of John Gordon Hughes, the, this week’s hearings focus on seven deaths previously reviewed by NSW police’s strike force Parrabell in 2018.
But Heath challenged that conclusion and submitted that a “mosaic of motives” in the case material showed “compelling evidence of LGBTIQ bias”. The inquiry also heard submissions about the 1989 deaths of 35-year-old Graham Paynter at Tathra on the NSW south coast, andPaynter’s body was found on Shelly Beach at the foot of a 50-metre cliff below a staircase to the Tathra headland, jeans around his ankles and jumper over his head.
Payne’s body was found in his Inverell unit with the broken end of a television aerial inserted into his penis, his death the result of septicemia. Parrabell did not review the case as a potential homicide.
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