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The father of raped and murdered New South Wales woman Anita Cobby has died after years of helping the families of other homicide victims. Garry Lynch died yesterday at a nursing home in Sydney's west after a long battle with dementia. His friend Peter Rolfe said Mr Lynch, 90, had his family at his side at the time of his passing. Mr Lynch started the Homicide Victims Support Group in 1993 - seven years after the horrific death of his 26-year-old daughter Anita. Ms Cobby, a nurse and beauty pageant winner, was abducted by a group of five men while walking home from Blacktown train station on the evening of February 2, 1986. Her body was found two days later in a paddock and her father had the task of identifying her. Witnesses who saw the men drag Ms Cobby into a stolen car and a later tip-off led police to making arrests 22 days after her murder. Leslie Murphy, then aged 22, his two brothers Gary and Michael, then 28 and 33, Michael Murdoch, then 19, and John Travers, then 18, were found guilty of murdering Ms Cobby. A media frenzy and public outcry led to calls for the re-introduction of the death penalty but the men were jailed for life. Mr Lynch and the rest of the family endured the public spotlight, which intensified when reports came that Ms Cobby's killers might apply for reduction in their sentence. Mr Lynch and his wife Grace were already counselling family members of homicide victims before they started their support organisation. In 1992, they met Peter and Christine Simpson, following the murder of the Simpsons' daughter Ebony . The Simpsons complained that there was no organisation to help the victim's families, prompting the Lynches to start the Homicide Victims Support Group. Peter Rolfe met Mr Lynch in 1995 after his best friend and business partner was murdered in Sydney. "We became very close friends over the next four or five years,'' Mr Rolfe said. He attended support group meetings which, Mr Rolfe said, catered to more than 300 families in the early years. "We were able to commiserate with each other with what we were going through,'' Mr Rolfe said. Mr Lynch was also a member of the Serious Offenders Review Council, which advises the Parole Authority and the NSW Supreme Court about the parole of serious offenders. "He was just out there to help people,'' Mr Rolfe said. "Basically, that's all he wanted to do. Just to get out and help people who had been through what he and Grace had been through. "He was such a lovely, basic, down-to-earth sort of guy. You could ring him at any time of the day or night.'' news.com.au (15-9-2008) http://www.news.com.au/national/father-in-nations-worst-murder-case-dies/story-e6frfkwi-1111117484975#ixzz1PIWWPOiS |
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Cobby Killers Apply For Prison Release Date
TWO of NSW's most notorious killers will seek a release date for the life sentences they received for the rape and murder of Sydney nurse Anita Cobby. Brothers Gary and Leslie Murphy were among five men jailed for life for Ms Cobby's rape and murder, which sparked calls for the reintroduction of the death penalty. When they were sentenced in 1987, the judge recommended their files be marked "never to be released". The NSW Supreme Court was told today that they intended to apply for a release date. Ms Cobby, 26, was abducted on her way home in February 1986. She was bashed and repeatedly raped before her throat was slit in a paddock at Prospect in Sydney's west. The Murphys' case was briefly mentioned in the Supreme Court today, when their lawyer Will Hutchins indicated they would apply for a redetermined sentence. Mr Hutchins told the court that one of Janine Balding's killers was also seeking a redetermination. Janine Balding, a 20-year-old bank clerk, was abducted from a railway car park at Sutherland in 1988 by a gang of street kids and sexually assaulted, gagged, bound and forced over a barbed wire fence before being drowned. The prisoner who wants a redetermination of his life sentence - one of three serving life for Ms Balding's rape and murder - cannot be named because he was aged 14 at the time of the offence. Mr Hutchins said progress in each of the three prisoners' cases was being impeded by the same legislation. Under truth in sentencing laws passed in 1989, prisoners jailed for life can apply to the Supreme Court to have a parole date set. However, the Government has since introduced legislation to prevent the state's worst criminals - including the Cobby and Balding killers - from ever qualifying for release. Prisoners who were the subject of a non-release recommendation must now wait 30 years before applying for a redetermined sentence. Ms Balding's killer is seeking special leave to challenge the legislation in the High Court, and Mr Hutchins said the Murphys' application depended on the outcome of that case. Justice Peter Hall adjourned the matters to a date to be fixed next year. Michael Murdoch , John Travers and another Murphy brother, Michael Murphy, are also serving life sentences for Ms Cobby's murder. AAP (7-12-2006) |
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