A pile of neatly folded clothes and a body at the bottom of a cliff. A former coroner and a group 11 other experts joined forces to form 'Team Scott' to prove Scott Johnson’s death could have been solved earlier if it was treated as a gay hate murder instead of suicide.
and a 1989 coroner's report that his brother had committed suicide.
"Fortunately, the case attracted a lot of people who just wanted to help because they thought this was important." "When Scott Johnson died in 1988, homosexuality had only been decriminalised in 1984, so it's a very short time in terms of police attitudes," she says. "There were late-night phone calls, a lot of emails. We would hungrily go through every document that was put forward by the police, looking for areas that may have been overlooked," Mr Page says.
Steve Johnson was at the inquest every day, hearing evidence that there were attacks on gay men at the place Scott had died.
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