Johnson, causing him to stumble backwards and leave the cliff edge,” Wilson said. “In those seconds when he must have realized what was happening to him, Dr. Johnson must have been terrified, aware that he would strike the rocks below and conscious of his fate,” Wilson added.
Wilson did not accept the defense lawyers’ argument that Helen White had been motivated to report him to police by a reward. Under cross-examination on Monday, Helen White denied she had been aware of a 1 million Australian dollar ($704,000) reward for information on Johnson’s murder when she went to police in 2019.
