MURDER IN THE DARK
Hubby allegedly left battered wife on road as kids slept
AN estranged husband allegedly battered his wife to death and left her on a dark road 300m from her Worongary home as their children slept. Andrew Cobby, 55, has been charged with murdering Kym Cobby, 51.
KELZ Anne received a phone call at 2am yesterday -- and ignored it.
“I thought it was my alarm,” the Logan woman said.
After finally picking up the phone she could not believe what she had been told.
Kym Cobby, her boss at KBK Enterprise for five years, was dead.
The mother of three was allegedly killed by her estranged husband, Andrew Cobby, in the final hours of Sunday night, 300m from the family home.
“I got a call at 2am and I thought it was my alarm so I ignored it … it was one of my work mates telling me Kym had been killed,” Ms Anne said.
“I thought ‘you’ve got to be kidding’. It was a total shock.”
“We weren’t overly close but she always talked about her kids. She was a great mum.
“She’s a very shy sort of person until you get to know her,” she said.
“But once you do, she’s awesome and she absolutely adores her kids ... one of the best ladies I ever met.
“A few months ago she asked me to take over her shifts because she got a job in a factory, but she was a great boss.
“Her family are very tight knit. I met her sister and mum a few times … they’re all very family orientated.”
Ms Cobby, who celebrated her 51st birthday 10 days ago, had three children, two of them secondary school age. The youngest is 14.
She inherited the family business from her father Noel Schulz, who died in 2003. KBK Enterprises supplies traffic control services. Mr Schulz was a former Broadbeach police senior-sergeant.
A woman who lived next door to Ms Cobby for 16 years, who has asked to remain anonymous, said she met Andrew Cobby only once.
“We have kids the same age at the same school ... they have been separated for a long time.
“I have no idea how happened.”
The woman said she often heard yelling coming from next door – not from the husband and wife – but from the scores of cousins, grandparents this and other family members who were living on the huge property over the years.
“The husband never lived with them ... the last I heard he was renting a house on the other side of Worongary,” she said.
“Kym was a really good mum. Whenever I saw her she’d give me a wave.
“We weren’t very good friends, but she always made an effort to catch up and I just feel terrible that this has happened to her.”
The woman also described Ms Cobby’s children as “great kids”.