NSW inquiry to investigate 40 years of unsolved Sydney gay hate deaths
ABCNSW Premier Dominic Perrottet has announced the most extensive inquiry into dozens of Sydney gay hate deaths that have gone unsolved in some cases for more than half a century. Key points: Gay hate crimes were rampant during the 1980s and 1990s in Sydney A parliamentary committee previously found police failed to investigate many suspected gay hate murders The upcoming inquiry will have significant powers, including the summoning of witnesses The special commission of inquiry will be led by Supreme Court judge John Sackar and will investigate 88 unsolved murders committed against LGBTQI people from 1970 to 2010. "These unsolved deaths have left loving families without answers for too long," Mr Perrottet said. A judicial inquiry was one of the key recommendations of a 2018 parliamentary committee into gay and transgender hate crimes, which found NSW Police were indifferent to such crimes and failed to properly investigate them at the time.
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