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Anita Cobby murder: Man convicted of horrific rape and murder of 26-year-old beauty queen in 1986 is dying of liver cancer

65-year-old Michael Murphy, who is suffering from advanced liver cancer, was moved from the Long Bay jail in Sydney, Australia, into palliative care
UPDATED SEP 25, 2018

One of the men who had been convicted of raping and murdering Anita Cobby in a sickening crime that still sends shivers up the spines of Australians to this day is reportedly dying in a hospital.

65-year-old Michael Murphy was moved from the Long Bay Jail in Sydney, Australia into palliative care because he is suffering from an advanced stage of liver cancer. He and four other men, including two of his brothers, had been convicted for the brutal rape and murder of nursing student and beauty queen Cobby in 1986. The 26-year-old had been walking back to her home late at night in Blacktown, west Sydney when the incident occurred.

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