White's intellectual impairments meant he had suffered stress, anxiety and panic attacks while in custody. Ms Rigg argued that White should receive a lesser sentence because he had only turned 18 at the time, saying that sentences for murder were significantly lower in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Ms White denied suggestions by White's barrister Belinda Rigg SC that she had only gone to the police because of a $1 million reward offered for information about Mr Johnson's death, and rejected claims she had made up the conversations with her then husband. And he said, 'It's not my fault the dumb c*** ran off the cliff',' she said. 'He said 'the only good poofter is a dead poofter', to which I said, 'So you threw him off the cliff'. Source: SBS / NSW Police/Supplied These victim statements were heard after White's former partner Helen White took the stand and described a conversation she claims she had with her ex-husband about 'poofter bashing' in the 1980s. Scott Johnson is pictured climbing Mt Monadnock in the US state of New Hampshire in August 1988.
