It never goes away,’ Steve Johnson (pictured right with Scott) told the court about his brother’s death Ms Johnson questioned why her brother was placed in the crosshairs of deadly violence and murder simply for who he chose to love.īrother Steve Johnson described the death as too awful to be true, saying his mother had reacted with a wailing cry at the news. ‘The wailing is a reliving, it’s a howl of death and despair and loss and grief that signifies that a piece of us has departed.
His Johnson’s partner Michael Noone also gave a statement describing the sheer horror of receiving a call from the police about the death of a loved one.