They're in their 40s now, the gangs who rampaged around the Bondi-Tamarama cliffs and bashed gay men in the late 1980s. They included The Bondi Boys and the girls who ran with them. Older today, and probably wiser, perhaps they've grown a conscience, or a spine.

Or maybe, after all these years, they will be tempted by the $100,000 rewards announced on Tuesday to dob in the killers of three gay men who died separately more than 25 years ago. The lure is offered 10 years after deputy state coroner Jacqueline Milledge delivered a scathing verdict on the "lacklustre", "disgraceful" and "shameful" police investigations that concluded John Russell, 31,and Wollongong newsreader Ross Warren, 24, had fallen accidentally to their deaths from the cliffs.

Murdered, body never found: Ross Warren's car keys were found on the Tamarama rocks on July 22, 1989, and his car was nearby.

She found Mr Russell was thrown, that Mr Warren - whose body was never found - was also murdered, and that 27-year-old Frenchman Gilles Mattaini, who vanished, was likely to have met a similar fate.