What the records say
- When
- 10 May 1972
- Kind
- Murder
- Killed
- 1
- Coordinates
- 34.93° S, 138.60° E
- Description
- Australian law lecturer
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
George Duncan (lecturer)
Australian law lecturer (1930–1972)
George Ian Ogilvie Duncan was an Australian law lecturer at the University of Adelaide who drowned in 1972 after being thrown into the River Torrens by a group of men believed to be police officers. Public outrage generated by the murder became the trigger for homosexual law reform, which led to South Australia becoming the first Australian state to decriminalise homosexuality.
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