Gary Murphy leaves hospital after shower assault in Long Bay
For the first time in decades one of the most hated men in Australia has been seen in public. Anita Cobby killer Gary Murphy is heading back to jail after a savage beating by inmates in the shower left him hospitalised for a month.
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Convicted murderer Gary Murphy was today moved from Prince of Wales Hospital back to the Long Bay Correctional Complex after recovering from a severe jailhouse bashing.
It’s the first time the now 61-year-old has been seen public in decades after he was sentenced never to be released for the brutal rape and murder of nurse Anita Cobby in 1986.
A bearded Murphy left the hospital about 11:30am after being wheeled to a prison van and driven away.
Murphy was rushed to St Vincent’s Hospital on June 25, after being set upon by a group of up to eight other prisoners in a shower complex inside Long Bay.
His head injuries were so severe, a helicopter was flown into the jail before paramedics decided instead to transfer him by road to the Darlinghurst hospital.
He was later moved to Prince of Wales to recover.
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At the time, Murphy used the common jailhouse excuse that he slipped in the shower, rather than risking further inmate retribution by giving up his alleged attackers.
Murphy was part of a group of five men who savagely raped and bashed Ms Cobby in 1986, in a killing that shocked the nation.
At the time of her death, Ms Cobby was working as a registered nurse and had previously been announced as the winner of the Miss Western Sydney beauty pageant in 1979.
Gary Murphy, his two brothers Michael and Les, along with ringleader John Travis and his sidekick Michael Murdoch, kidnapped the 26-year old nurse as she walked home from Blacktown Station on February 2, 1986.
The men drove her to a paddock in Prospect where she was repeatedly raped and beaten before Travis slit her throat and left her to die.
Gary Murphy — who had famously wet his pants when police arrested him — along with his two brothers Michael and Lesley and fellow killers Michael Murdoch and John Travers were found guilty and their court file marked by a judge “never to be released’’.