Murder of Kylie Maybury

Kylie Maybury
Kylie Maybury
Born
Kylie Maria Antonia Maybury

(1978-10-24)24 October 1978
Died (aged 6)
Cause of deathHomicide by asphyxiation
Body discoveredPreston, Victoria, Australia
Resting placeFawkner Crematorium and Memorial Park, Hadfield, Victoria, Australia
NationalityAustralian
Known forMurder victim

Kylie Maria Antonia Maybury[1] (24 October 1978 – 6 November 1984) was an Australian schoolgirl from Preston, an inner-city suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Maybury was kidnapped, raped, and murdered on 6 November 1984,[2] the date of the 1984 Melbourne Cup Day; and she was nicknamed in the Melbourne tabloid newspaper The Sun News-Pictorial as the Cup Day Girl.[3]

More than 30 years after her death, in June 2016 Victoria Police arrested and charged Gregory Keith Davies with the abduction, rape, and murder of Maybury. Davies later pleaded guilty to the murder and rape of Maybury and in December 2017 he was sentenced to life imprisonment with a non-parole period of 28 years.

  1. ^ "Deceased Search". gmct.com.au. Archived from the original on 4 February 2020. Retrieved 28 December 2014.
  2. ^ Moor, Keith (5 November 2014). "Six-year-old Kylie Maybury's 1984 Melbourne Cup Day kidnap, and rape and murder, faces fresh investigation by Victoria Police". Herald Sun.
  3. ^ The Sun News-Pictorial, 8 November 1984