A man stabbed 53 times in a frenzied and overly violent attack was likely the victim of a gay hate murder, an inquiry has found.
Barry Jones died sometime after 10pm at the grandstand in Five Dock Park in inner-city Sydney on September 26, 1976.
The 41-year-old labourer had been drinking at a local pub earlier in the evening before engaging in a sexual act while at a park believed to be a local gay beat.
