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John Travers. John Raymond Travers, aged 18 in 1986, was considered the ringleader of the gang. He was raised in relative poverty in Blacktown, the oldest of eight children from unmarried teenage parents. By age 14, he was already an alcoholic, and was expelled from high school during Year 10 for being continually disruptive to other ...
Jun 18, 2019 · Mr Fisher didn’t know it, but the man on the top bunk of his Lithgow jail cell was John Travers, one of the five men who raped and murdered Sydney nurse Anita Cobby in 1986.
Jun 16, 2019 · John Raymond Travers (born February 27, 1967) is an Australian murderer. He was sentenced to life imprisonment along with four others in his gang, for the horrific 1986 Anita Cobby murder in New South Wales.
Jul 25, 2019 · Two other men, Michael Murdoch, then aged 19, and John Travers, then 18, were also convicted. All were sentenced to life in prison, never to be released. Michael Murphy died in jail from cancer in February this year.
Anita Cobby murderer John Travers being led from Bowral Police Station in 1996 after an attempted escape. Murphy said Travers returned to the car covered in blood after killing Anita and started “big noting” himself, saying “I cut her throat. It’s me first one.’’.
- Candace Sutton
Feb 8, 2016 · A recording by a woman known only as Miss X caught ringleader John Travers confessing what he and four others had done to nurse Anita Cobby in Sydney. It was a savage crime that caused an almost...
The tapes of John Travers and Michael Murdoch admitting to taking part in the brutal gang rape and murder led to the conviction of the 26-year-old’s five attackers. They were obtained by Travers ...
