🔗 Share this article Jury in Prominent Australian Homicide Trial Visits Shoreline Where Victim Was Discovered The remains of Toyah Cordingley were found on a secluded coastline in northern Queensland in 2018. Members of the jury involved in a widely publicized Queensland homicide case have been taken to the remote shore where the victim was located. The 24-year-old victim was repeatedly attacked with a bladed weapon and placed in a shallow resting place with minimal hope of surviving, the court has heard. Her body were found by her father the next day on Wangetti Beach – a stretch of shoreline between the tourist centres of Cairns and Port Douglas. Rajwinder Singh, 41, has pleaded not guilty to murdering Ms Cordingley on a Sunday afternoon in October 2018 in northern Australia. Jury Visit to Crime Scene The panel of 12 individuals plus several back-up jurors attended the beach along with the judge and barristers on the start of the week in Queensland. In a nod to the tropical conditions and sweltering heat, the judge wore a T-shirt, athletic wear and sneakers rather than a wig and robes. Both the prosecuting and defense attorneys chose polo shirts, shorts and baseball caps. Location Details The court members were guided around three-quarters of a mile north up the sand to observe where Ms Cordingley's remains were discovered. Upon arrival, as they traveled to the site, four red and white cones indicated where the victim's car had been left. The trip was intended to help the jurors become familiar with important sites in the case and no testimony was given. Context of the Case Previously, the court was informed that the following day Ms Cordingley's body were found, the accused departed from Australia to India – leaving behind his wife, family and relatives. He was out of contact until he was apprehended four years later, the state said. Justice Lincoln Crowley with barristers and other personnel at Wangetti Beach. Prosecution Case It is alleged that Mr Singh, who was employed in healthcare in the town of Innisfail, near Cairns, had a confrontation with Ms Cordingley. The victim was found wearing a swimwear, with her attire and most of her possessions missing. Those items were removed by the assailant to avoid detection, prosecutors allege. Her dog, Indie, which Ms Cordingley had taken to the beach for a stroll, was located secured to a tree hidden in bushland about 30 metres from the burial site. The weapon was found, and no one have been found. But the state says the evidence – though circumstantial – was made up of findings that indicated Mr Singh "excluding other suspects." This will include evidence that genetic material recovered from a stick at the scene was extremely more likely to have originated from Mr Singh than a unrelated individual of the public. The jury has already heard evidence suggesting that Ms Cordingley's phone departed the scene after the incident – and that its movements corresponded with those of a vehicle belonging to the defendant. Mr Singh's sudden departure from Australia also pointed to his guilt, the prosecution has argued. Defense Position "As the police were discovering Toyah's body, he was organizing... a rushed one way trip back to India," the prosecutor said previously as he began arguments. The defence is yet to provided testimony, but in his initial statement, Mr Singh's barrister Greg McGuire described his client as a "placid" and "compassionate" man, who was in the "wrong place at the wrong time." He also foreshadowed testimony to come later in the trial that, after his arrest, Mr Singh informed an undercover officer he had witnessed assailants attack Ms Cordingley and then had run away in fear – something he said was his "gravest error." The defense attorney has also said he will testify about other people "identified and unidentified" who should come under investigation. Further Evidence Ms Cordingley's boyfriend at the time, Marco Heidenreich, whom authorities excluded as a person of interest, was among those who gave evidence previously. The trial heard he was an immediate person of interest – and that he had faced questions from Ms Cordingley's father about whether he was involved in his partner's vanishing, prior to her body were discovered. Photographs showing the witness on a hike with a companion on the day Ms Cordingley disappeared have been presented to the jury, with an specialist saying he was certain the pictures were genuine and had not been altered in any way. The trial will resume to the more conventional setting of the courtroom on the next day.