Ross Warren

{{Short description|Australian gay journalist (1964–1989)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = Ross Warren | image = Ross Warren.jpg | caption = Warren in the 1980s | birth_name = Ross Bradley Warren | birth_date = {{Birth date text|1964}} | birth_place = Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia | death_date = {{Death date and given age|1989|07|22|25|df=y}} | death_place = Tamarama, New South Wales, Australia | occupation = Television presenter }}

'''Ross Warren''' was an Australian journalist for WIN Television who was killed as part of the Gay Gang Murders on 22 July 1989.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ross Bradley WARREN|url=http://www.australianmissingpersonsregister.com/RossWarren.htm|access-date=2021-11-05|website=Australian Missing Persons Register}}</ref> Having disappeared after a night out with friends on Oxford Street,<ref>{{Cite web|last=Tullis|first=Ashleigh|date=2019-02-27|title=Inquiry heard details of TV presenter's gay-hate murder|url=https://www.mandurahmail.com.au/story/5926623/inquiry-heard-details-of-tv-presenters-gay-hate-murder/|access-date=2021-11-05|website=Mandurah Mail|language=en-AU}}</ref> Warren's car was discovered outside Marks Park, Sydney, a popular gay beat. His car keys were found two days later at the bottom of the adjoining cliffs.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Gay-Hate Decades: 30 unsolved deaths|url=http://www.sbs.com.au/gayhatedecades/|access-date=2021-11-05|website=SBS World News}}</ref> Police initially theorised that Warren had faked his own disappearance, concluding after four days that he had accidentally fallen into the sea.<ref>{{Cite news|date=2020-05-15|title=Scott Johnson gay murder charge dredges up violent slice of Sydney's history|language=en-AU|work=ABC News|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-16/scott-johnson-charge-four-other-sydney-gay-hate-murders/12247922|access-date=2021-11-05}}</ref> A search was undertaken,<ref>{{Cite news|date=1989-07-27|title=In Brief|work=Canberra Times|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article122285145|access-date=2021-11-05}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Treasure|first=Kim|date=1989-07-26|title=Ross Warren Disappears; TV Star Murder Feared|work=Illawarra Mercury}}</ref> however his body was never recovered.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Deaths of Gilles Mattaini, Ross Warren and John Russell|url=https://www.police.nsw.gov.au/can_you_help_us/rewards/100000_reward/deaths_of_gilles_mattaini,_ross_warren_and_john_russell|access-date=2021-11-05|website=New South Wales Police Force}}</ref> In 2005, the case was recategorised as a homicide, the previous investigation being described as "grossly inadequate" and "shameful" by the deputy coroner Jacqueline Milledge.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2016-05-20|title=Sydney must share the shame of gay-hate crimes|url=https://www.smh.com.au/national/sydney-must-share-the-shame-of-gayhate-crimes-20160520-gp08i3.html|access-date=2021-11-05|website=Sydney Morning Herald|language=en}}</ref> Today his murder is seen as one of many slayings and hate-crimes committed on the cliffs of Marks Park<ref>{{Cite web|last=queerstorian|title=Ross Warren|url=https://worldqueerstory.org/tag/ross-warren/|access-date=2021-11-05|website=World Queerstory|date=3 August 2020 |language=en}}</ref> in the 1980s and 1990s.<ref>{{Cite news|date=2021-11-04|title=Suspected murders of Sydney gay men at centre of inquiry into brutal hate crimes|language=en-AU|work=ABC News|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-11-04/nsw-government-announces-gay-hate-crime-inquiry/100593044|access-date=2021-11-05}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=2021-10-22|title=Many of Garry's friends disappeared or were killed during dark chapter of Sydney's history|language=en-AU|work=ABC News|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-22/bondi-rise-memorial-honours-gay-hate-crime-victims-70s-to-90s/100559240|access-date=2021-11-05}}</ref> His name is listed on a memorial to the victims of these crimes located at the site.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Gorrey|first=Megan|date=2018-10-21|title=Gay beat to tribute: Bondi's Marks Park to get hate crime memorial|url=https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/gay-beat-to-tribute-bondi-s-marks-park-to-get-hate-crime-memorial-20181015-p509pq.html|access-date=2021-11-05|website=Sydney Morning Herald|language=en}}</ref>

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