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Murderous rampage of gay-hate gangs
Has Sydney overlooked an 'epidemic' of up to 80 murders motivated by the hatred of gay men? Rick Feneley investigates.

David McMahon is the gay man who got away. He will never forget the summer's night when a teenage gang ambushed and bashed him and dragged him to a Bondi cliff where their leader told him: ''I'm gunna throw you over the side.''

In December 1989, the 24-year-old McMahon managed to escape and outrun his assailants among a mob of about 18 teenagers. They included four girls cheering on the boys.

Other men did not get away from murderous gangs on the same cliff-top path. These cases have been widely publicised and were part of a wave of ''poofter bashings'' in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

But NSW did not experience a mere wave of gay-hate crimes. ''It was an epidemic,'' says Sue Thompson, a lawyer and the former NSW Police Force gay liaison co-ordinator. The epidemic extended to the Manly cliff-tops and the northern beaches and regional NSW, and might add up to almost 80 murders....

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