Anita Lorraine Cobby (née Lynch) (2 November 1959 – 2 February 1986) was a 26-year-old Australian woman from Blacktown, New South Wales, who was kidnapped while walking home from Blacktown railway station just before 10:00 p.m. on 2 February 1986, and subsequently sexually assaulted and murdered.

2024年10月14日 · For the 26-year-old Australian nurse, the barbaric beating and gang rape on the night of Feb. 2, 1986, that left her dead in a rural field with her throat slashed was the...

The murder of Anita Cobby united the public in outrage. Petitions with tens of thousands of signatures supporting the return of the death penalty were handed to the government of New South Wales. A Sydney TV station ran a phone-in poll that registered nearly 16,000 calls, almost 95 per cent of which were in favor of the reintroduction of the ...

2019年7月25日 · One of the men jailed for life over the 1986 murder of nurse Anita Cobby has been seen in public for the first time in three decades.

What the five had subjected 26-year-old nurse Anita Cobby to in a paddock before Travers slit her throat, almost beheading her, had become public knowledge just days after her naked body was found.

THIRTY years after the brutal rape and murder of Anita Cobby, details of her death still have the power to shock and bring tears to the eyes of hardened police officers.

Sydney nurse Anita Cobby's killers remain behind bars, 30 years on, their files marked 'never to be released'.

2024年2月1日 · It has now been 38 years since the crime that shocked Australia and made Anita Cobby a household name for the saddest of reasons. It was on February 2 1986 that Anita took that fateful walk from Blacktown station to her home.

The rape and murder of Anita Cobby is arguably the best-known murder in Sydney, on account of the particularly horrific circumstances of the crime. Cobby was a 26-year-old nurse working at Sydney Hospital who was kidnapped by five men in a stolen car on 2 February 1986, while walking home from Blacktown Station after work.

2015年1月30日 · Anita Cobby murder: Brutal rape and murder of nurse haunts Australia 29 years later. IT WAS an unspeakable crime that left women and men gripped by fear.