Ms Cobby, a nursing sister at Sydney Hospital, disappeared on her way home to Blacktown on the night of February 2nd. Her body was found 2 days later face down in the mud, having been savagely beaten, and her throat was slashed three times, possibly by an axe. Both her shoulders and her fingers were broken.

    According to a statement tendered to the court today, Detective Seargent Kevin Raue of Homicide Squad said Leslie Murphy had admitted to being involved in the abduction of Ms Cobby with the other four men. According to the statement, Murphy said: 'We took her up a dead-end road near the drive-in at Blacktown. They pulled her gear off and we just took her down into the paddock.'

    All of them, except himself, had had intercourse with Ms Cobby, he had said..

   In another written statement tendered to the court, Detective Seargent Graham Rosetta of Blacktown police said that John Raymond Travers had confessed to the killing of Ms Cobby. According to Seargent Rosetta, on 24th February he woke Travers, who was sleeping in a police cell after being arrested for car theft, and asked who had killed Ms Cobby. 'I did' Travers replied. Travers later gave the names of the four other men involved. The five men have been remanded in custody and are expected to be committed for trial soon.