Anita Cobby killer Gary Murphy bashed in prison shower
One of the men behind one of Australia’s most notorious murders has been severely injured after being bashed in Sydney’s Long Bay jail.
One of the men spending life behind bars over the brutal 1986 rape and murder of nurse Anita Cobby has been bashed in Sydney’s Long Bay jail.
Gary Murphy, 61, suffered severe head injuries and is fighting for his life after he was allegedly attacked by multiple people in a shower block area of the prison.
A Corrective Services NSW spokeswoman told news.com.au an inmate was transferred to St Vincents Hospital, Darlinghurst, after he was allegedly assaulted about 10.20am Tuesday.
He sustained severe head and facial injuries — and it’s understood he was in severe shock when medics arrived, but was still conscious.
“A number of possible assailants have been identified,” a Corrective Services NSW spokeswoman said in a statement. “Corrective Services NSW is assisting NSW Police with their investigations.”
Murphy, along with brothers Michael and Les, as well as John Travers and Michael Murdoch, spotted Ms Cobby on the evening of February 2, 1986 as she was walking home.
The registered nurse had been out for dinner with friends and alighted at Blacktown railway station around 10pm.
The men, who spotted her from the car they were travelling in, dragged Ms Cobby into the vehicle and drove 5km to a rural farm in Prospect.
There they took turns raping the 26-year-old before Travers slit her throat and left her to die.
Two days later, a farmer found Ms Cobby’s naked body face down in the Prospect paddock.
She had been beaten, repeatedly raped and tortured — her fingers broken and bones dislocated.
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