Antiques dealer probably killed for abusing young boys

A gay antiques dealer who was stabbed inside his shop in a “brazen attack” in 1980 was probably killed by a family member of a teenage boy he had employed and sexually abused, a NSW gay hate crimes inquiry has been told.

A Special Commission of Inquiry has examined the death of Walter John Bedser, 47, who died after he was stabbed multiple times in the chest in his Parramatta antiques shop in December 1980.