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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.
- ‘The most savage, fiendish murder ever known’ - news.com.au
Anita Cobby murderer John Travers being led from Bowral...
- ‘The most savage, fiendish murder ever known’ - news.com.au
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 students
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
John Travers has been incarcerated since 1986, when he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole after being convicted of sexual assault and murder.
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Jun 19, 2019 · Greg Fisher, a former drug dealer and criminal, shares his experience of meeting John Travers, one of the rapists and murderers of Anita Cobby, in prison. He contrasts John's lack of remorse with Matthew Elliott, another inmate who expressed deep sorrow for his crime.
