Kym Cobby’s estranged husband guilty
ANDREW John Cobby has been found guilty of the violent murder of his estranged wife Kym Cobby, attacked with a hammer and choked to death in the driveway of her own home.
After a day of deliberations, a Supreme Court jury found Cobby, 59, guilty of murdering mother-of-three Kym Cobby, whose bloodied body was discovered in the gutter outside her Gold Coast hinterland home in November 2017.
Cobby had completely denied any involvement in Kym’s death, claiming he had been to visit her and that they were ambushed by an unknown man and that he had fled and
left Kym behind because he was afraid for his life.
During closing submissions, Crown prosecutor Philip McCarthy said Mr Cobby was running from a “fictitious attacker” and his claims were “rubbish”.
“The only person on that street who needed protection was Kym Cobby, and the only person she needed protection from was Andrew Cobby,” Mr McCarthy said.
During the four-week trial in the Brisbane Supreme Court, Cobby claimed that in the lead up to Kym’s death his family had received threats over his failed investment deals.
In closing, defence barrister Tony Kimmins said the prosecution had been unable to offer any motive that Mr Cobby had to kill his wife and the court had heard “no evidence” of any history of domestic violence.
He reminded the jury that the Cobby family had been threatened in the lead up to the murder over Mr Cobby’s investment deals and suggested Ms Cobby had become “collateral damage” for his past misdeeds.
More than 50 witnesses were called during the trial before Justice Peter Callaghan.