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Rex Martinich

Man who killed wife with hammer loses murder appeal

Kym Cobby was found beaten to death outside her Gold Coast hinterland home in 2017. (HANDOUT/COBBY FAMILY)

A man convicted of murdering his wife with a hammer has lost his bid for a retrial after an appeal based on retested DNA evidence was dismissed.

Andrew John Cobby was found guilty in a 2021 trial of beating and strangling his estranged wife Kym, 51, outside her Gold Coast hinterland home in November 2017.

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