Former NSW Police officer Mark Higginbotham has spoken out about the gay bashings at the hands of officers during the 1980s in Sydney.
Mark Higginbotham,a former NSW Police officer,is speaking out for the first time about witnessing other officers bashing gay men in Sydney.
Between 1987 and 1993 up to 20 gay men were murdered across Sydney,too many dismissed at the time as suicides or deaths by misadventure.
Kritchikorn Rattanajurathaporn had only been in Australia for four months when he was brutally murdered at Mackenzies Point.
John Russell was about to leave Sydney behind for an idyllic life in regional New South Wales. He became one of the victims of Sydney’s notorious gay hate crimes
From the late 1980s,a wave of brutal murders swept Sydney’s clifftops. The victims were gay men;police barely bothered investigating.