I was only 3 when this horrific event took place. I too lived in Blacktown at the time, I spent most of my childhood up until I was 12 in Western Sydney, what happened to Anita Cobby was well known to everyone, still is. If memory serves me correctly, Blacktown Council holds an Anita Cobby Day. It saddens me everytime I hear about this, I can't even begin to fathom the pain and fear she would have had to have gone through, but the questions remains: WHY? Anita, you are in the hearts of so many people who loved you and many who never knew you, including mine. I know you're in a far better place where those creeps can never hurt you again, I'm also very happy to hear you are now with your father, I'm sure it was a beautiful reunion!!!

God Knows It All God Knows every detail of that tragic night. He knows how bad you suffered. He knows how hard you cried. He saw fear gripped your entire body. He knows how your heart broke and the overwhelming lonliness that you felt. He knows how hard you tried. He knows the passions of your heart. He knows that you didnt understand why and how how bad you didnt want to die. He knows who did this to you and what lies ahead. God has the power to heal all your pain as if it was never there. He was with you that tragic night, He never left you, He is with you right now in heaven surrounded with eternal love and peace; and an answer to why this happend. No one can hurt you anymore. Its been 23 years and your still alive in so many people. I never met you but I am soo deeply saddened over this I cant stop crying. Its not fair why that happened. Be at peace and smile for me I cant wait to see you in heaven.

I was born after Anitas murder i am only 20 but after reading about the case i bought the book the life and death of Anita Cobby and i have never been so emotionally effected as i had when i finished that book , i have since then read up a lot on the case and have watched the episode on crime investigation Australia . Anita was a beautiful person and when my 2nd child is born this October i have decided on the name Anita if i have a girl. And i have never seen such courage and strength shown from parents as what i saw from Gary and Grace Lynch. My heart goes out to you. No one deserves to have their life taken the way Anita did but no one deserves to have to live with the pain of losing a loved one in such a brutal way as the way the Lynchs have.It brings tears to my eyes when i think that after years of suffering with the loss of Anita , Mr Lynch is finally back with his beautiful daughter

anita's murder still haunts me to this day, and i think it will forever....words fail me.....as i think the law failed anita......may we never EVER see another murder like this one

I hope with all my heart you are resting in peace now..looking down on us every once in awhile. Even though I did not know you personally, know we will never forget you Anita. You are still a beautiful young woman. Love ness xoxox

I have just finished watching the episode on ci australia about anita cobby and have absolutely bawled my eyes out. I was only 6 when this horrible and disturbing crime was commited. Such a beautiful younge woman who had experienced something that no human being should ever have to experience. My deepest thoughts go out to your mother who still deals with this ordeal no doubt on a daily basis. May anita and her courageous father rest in peace in a better place away from the bastards that should have been a good enough reason to bring back capital punishment. It deeply saddens me to know that she spent the remaining few hours of her life in the situation she was in. My thoughts are with you and your family. xo ky-lee

I have just finished watching the episode on ci australia about anita cobby and have absolutely bawled my eyes out. I was only 6 when this horrible and disturbing crime was commited. Such a beautiful younge woman who had experienced something that no human being should ever have to experience. My deepest thoughts go out to your mother who still deals with this ordeal no doubt on a daily basis. May anita and her courageous father rest in peace in a better place away from the bastards that should have been a good enough reason to bring back capital punishment. It deeply saddens me to know that she spent the remaining few hours of her life in the situation she was in. My thoughts are with you and your family. xo ky-lee

Still in our memories of that fatefull night,no-one deserves what you went through Anita.May you be sleeping peacefully,with the Love of the Angels to protect you.

Anita,I want to thank you for coming to me in my dream.In your own special way you let me know of the impending death of your father.This touched me in a way that is indescribable,yet I now understand the reasons for this.I did finally get my own closure over your death.For this Anita,I feel cherished and so very priveleged that you touched my heart and now I feel that you are my legacy and i will hold your memory in my heart forever and I`m sure that we will meet again in a better place.I look forward to this time so very much. RIP sweet angel and may you and your father be safe together now. Love,Rachel xx

May your rest in peace beautiful girl. Reunited with your dear father.

Rest In Peace. the cruel people who did this to you wont be meeting you up there, you are safe now. and reunited with your father. You will be loved and missed Anita. by so many people. I know the pain and suffereing you had to go through was for a good cause. At the time you must have thought it was awful, but now look. You are in a better place with someone who loves you un conditionally. you always be in our hearts. we love you.

no person should ever be able to love after torturing somebody this badly. we love you anita. rest highly in peace. they wont be meeting you up there,

What can I say that Zoe hasn't already said before. I feel like this just happened. I can't imagine anyone going through that humiliation and torture that dear Anita has gone through. May god be with you. There isn't a day that goes by without me thinking of you. I hope you are with your father now, you guys both deserve to be togather. As for the 5 spineless cowards that did this to you. I will gladly assist in slowly torturing them so that they wish that they die.

May you find peace in the afterlife Anita. You'll never be forgotten.

I am doing my bachelor of Criminology at uni, in Australia and the Anita cobby case has always been my most favourite but upsetting homicide case iv read about. I feel for her so much, such a beautiful and kind woman having to live the last 2 hours of her life in paralizing fear and excrutiating pain, Only Anita knows what its like to be taken by 5 guys, raped over and over again, vaginally , anally and forced to oral acts, bashed, dragged through a barbed wire fence and getting her throat slit that horrifically by John Travers that her head was only hanging on by the skin on the back of her neck. She suffered this because of 5 low socioeconomic, no hoping, psychotic losers (especially John Travers) who had just stolen a car and couldnt even affored between the 5 of them for fuel. She was the unlucky victim being in the wrong place at the wrong time, it didnt lead to just taking her money, but in great fear and pain, her life. Her own father had to be the one who had to identify her at the morgue, his legs buckled underneath him having to see his daughter bashed and beaten with her head only hanging on by a thread. The families of these 'nothings' , 'unwanted' and 'filth of society' doesnt even give a care at all about what these boys have done. But to the majority of Australians we will always love and feel for Anita, even though at the time of the crime she must have felt victimised and alone but her body was found soon after, was loved by all even to those who didnt know her, and John Travers, Michael Murdoch, Les Murphey, Gary Murphey, Michael Murphy will die in jail where filth belong. Hope it is long and painful guys! Two of you are trying to get out, go ahead, ull be killed within a day, hopefully by getting bashed, dragged thru a barbed wire fence, getting something rammed up ur ass then getting ur throat cut. And you John Travers, im sick to the stomach to even call you a human being like me, because you arnt one at all. I also feel for the animals you had sex with and slaughtered, the sooner you go will be the best for everybody, im sure all will agree. Love u Anita if u can hear sumhow, u will always be in Auzzies hearts, and hope you are at peace with your father now, I bet hes happy after all these years to be with you. God bless to your mum xoxoxox

Travers' confession - Video

This is a murder that will never be forgotten. I still shudder at the thought of what those boys did to this beautiful woman. It is inhumane. I find comfort in that she is now together with her father who has just passed. RIP