[4] In November 2016, the New South Wales Attorney General agreed to an immunity deal with Atkins, which protected him from perjury in exchange for leading police to Leveson's remains.

Leveson was at Arq nightclub in Darlinghurst, in the early morning of 23 September 2007, with close friends and his boyfriend, 45-year-old Michael Peter Atkins.

[5] At 3:20 am, Leveson sent a text message to a friend saying, "Mike's having a fucking cry, he is taking me home and won't let me stay!

[6] Later that day, at 12:20 pm, CCTV cameras captured Atkins buying a mattock and duct tape at Bunnings in Taren Point.

[2][9] On 27 September, Leveson's car, a green 1999 Toyota Corolla hatchback, was found abandoned outside of a public toilet at Waratah Park Reserve in Sutherland, a known gay beat.

[10] In November 2016, Gabrielle Upton, the Attorney General of New South Wales, agreed to an immunity deal with Atkins, which protected him from "being charged with perjury if he showed police where the body was".

[17] On 5 December 2017, the deputy state coroner, Elaine Truscott, delivered an open finding at the inquest of Leveson's death.