anita cobby case
INTRODUCTION
Recently, an interesting case of murder involving a young married woman was unravelled by the crime scene team. The collection of evidence and laboratory examination of exhibits provided the corroborative evidence necessary to prove the victim’s in-laws were trying to mislead the Investigating Officer by fabricating a story of looting and murder
Anita Lorraine Cobby was an Australian registered nurse , in the state of NSW and beauty pageant winner. At 26 years old, she was abducted from the western Sydney suburb of Blacktown, and raped and murdered at nearby Prospect, on the evening of 2 February 1986. Five men, including three brothers, were convicted of her murder and sentenced to life imprisonment, without any possibility of parole.[1] The murder caused much outrage within the community and Australia at large, who subsequently campaigned for justice and the reinstatement of the capital punishment.
Cobby worked in Sydney and commuted daily from her home at Blacktown. On the day of the murder, Cobby finished work at Sydney Hospital at 3 pm and met friends for dinner in nearby Redfern, Sydney. She then caught a train from Central Station to Blacktown Station. Arriving at Blacktownx station she would usually ring her father who would pick her up. On the day of her death she likely decided to walk home after finding the phone to be out of order, and no taxis available. Aside from her killers, only two witnesses saw her after she left the train.
Cobby was walking alone from the train station along Newton Road, Blacktown around 10 pm, when the gang of five men drove up beside her and stopped their stolen HT Holden Kingswood. Two men leaped from the car and dragged her into it, kicking and screaming. A 13 year old boy and his younger sister heard someone screaming from their house directly opposite and had gone outside in time to see Cobby forced into the attackers' car. The boy ran across the road to help but the car drove off before
Recently, an interesting case of murder involving a young married woman was unravelled by the crime scene team. The collection of evidence and laboratory examination of exhibits provided the corroborative evidence necessary to prove the victim’s in-laws were trying to mislead the Investigating Officer by fabricating a story of looting and murder
Anita Lorraine Cobby was an Australian registered nurse , in the state of NSW and beauty pageant winner. At 26 years old, she was abducted from the western Sydney suburb of Blacktown, and raped and murdered at nearby Prospect, on the evening of 2 February 1986. Five men, including three brothers, were convicted of her murder and sentenced to life imprisonment, without any possibility of parole.[1] The murder caused much outrage within the community and Australia at large, who subsequently campaigned for justice and the reinstatement of the capital punishment.
Cobby worked in Sydney and commuted daily from her home at Blacktown. On the day of the murder, Cobby finished work at Sydney Hospital at 3 pm and met friends for dinner in nearby Redfern, Sydney. She then caught a train from Central Station to Blacktown Station. Arriving at Blacktownx station she would usually ring her father who would pick her up. On the day of her death she likely decided to walk home after finding the phone to be out of order, and no taxis available. Aside from her killers, only two witnesses saw her after she left the train.
Cobby was walking alone from the train station along Newton Road, Blacktown around 10 pm, when the gang of five men drove up beside her and stopped their stolen HT Holden Kingswood. Two men leaped from the car and dragged her into it, kicking and screaming. A 13 year old boy and his younger sister heard someone screaming from their house directly opposite and had gone outside in time to see Cobby forced into the attackers' car. The boy ran across the road to help but the car drove off before