The Latest Breaking News from Scott Phillip White

Three NSW judges have set aside a conviction based on a prisoner's on-the-fly guilty plea to the 1988 cliff murder of an American mathematician.

The brother of murdered American mathematician Scott Johnson says he has accepted the possibility of a trial as the man jailed over the killing after pleading guilty launches an appeal.

An appeal by a convicted murderer to go back on his guilty plea has been a gruelling but important process to watch, the brother of the victim says.

A man jailed for the cold case murder of gay mathematician Scott Johnson had no good reason for his on-the-fly guilty plea, an appeal court has been told.

Lawyers for a man who unexpectedly pleaded guilty to the cold case murder of American mathematician Scott Johnson say he did so without "good reasons", and are calling for him to face trial.

If Helen White hadn’t watched a TV show about gay-hate murders in 2019, it’s possible Scott Johnson’s killer would still be a free man. What she did next helped to solve one of Sydney’s longest-running mysteries.

Scott White, the man responsible for the notorious Sydney murder of American mathematician Scott Johnson more than three decades ago, is jailed for 12 years — but a Supreme Court justice stops short of calling the killing a gay-hate crime.

The ex-wife of a man who pleaded guilty to one of Sydney's most infamous gay hate murders says he often bragged about bashing homosexual men.

A letter tendered to court from one of Scott Johnson's siblings details the "excruciating" wait relatives are enduring as they prepare to fly to Sydney and face his killer.

An application by Scott White's lawyers to delay his sentencing hearings is dismissed by a judge, who says any delay would be "bordering on the unconscionable".