Raj winder Singh, 41, a former nurse has been found guilty of the sensational murder of Toyah Cordingley.
The 24 year-old, a health store worker and animal shelter volunteer, whose body was found on a popular tropical beach in Australia seven years ago was reportedly stabbed 26 times while out on a Sunday afternoon walk with her dog in October 2018.
Her half buried body in sand dunes was discovered by her father on Wangetti beach, between the popular tourist hotspots of Cairns and Port Douglas.
Rajwinder Singh, was reported to have fled to India the day after Ms Cordingley’s body was found and spent four years missing.
Following a month- long trial, he was convicted by a jury on Monday, which brought a mix of cheers and tears from the public gathered in court. This served as the second trial for Singh, after a trial in March ended in a hung jury.
Ms Cordingley’s death left a overwhelming grief across the state of Queensland, as she was a famous health store worker and well loved by the local community.
The Cairns Supreme Court stated she was repeatedly murdered with a sharp object and placed in a shallow sandy grave with no hope of rescue.
The convicted killer, Singh- originally from India, Punjab had been resident in Innisfail, Queensland. And at the time of the killing, he flew out of the country leaving his parents, wife and three children behind.
An evidence trail discovered the movements of Ms Cordingley’s phone, matching the movements of Singh’s car, moments after the murder and a touch DNA analysis recovered from a stick used at the crime scene which proved 3.8 billion times likely to have come from Singh.
Rajwinder Singh is scheduled to appear in court on Tuesday for a hearing to determine his sentence.
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