🔗 Share this article Panel of Jurors in Prominent Down Under Homicide Trial Visits Shoreline At Which Victim Was Found The remains of Toyah Cordingley was discovered on a secluded coastline in northern Queensland back in 2018. Jurors involved in a widely publicized Australian murder trial have been taken to the isolated shore where the victim was located. Toyah Cordingley was multiple times stabbed with a sharp object and buried in a shallow resting place with little or no chance of survival, the jury has heard. The remains were found by her father the next day on Wangetti Beach – a stretch of shoreline nestled 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 Far North Queensland. Court Visit to Beach The panel of 12 individuals plus several back-up jurors visited the beach along with the presiding officer and legal counsel on Monday morning local time. In a acknowledgment of the tropical conditions and sweltering heat, the judge wore a casual top, sport shorts and sneakers rather than a wig and robes. Both the prosecuting and defense attorneys chose casual shirts, bottoms and headwear. Scene Details The court members were led around 1.2km along the beach to observe where Ms Cordingley's body were uncovered. Earlier, as they traveled to the site, four red and white cones indicated where the vehicle had been left. The visit was designed to help the panel become acquainted with important sites in the trial and no official evidence was presented. Context of the Case Previously, the court was informed that the following day Ms Cordingley's remains were found, Mr Singh flew from Australia to India – abandoning his wife, three children and relatives. He was not heard from until he was apprehended years after, the prosecution said. The judge with barristers and other personnel at Wangetti Beach. State Case It is claimed that the defendant, who was employed in healthcare in the community of Innisfail, south of Cairns, had a confrontation with Ms Cordingley. The pharmacy worker was discovered wearing a swimwear, with all her other clothes and belongings absent. 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 tied up to a tree concealed in bushland about 100 feet from the burial site. The weapon was ever recovered, and no one have been found. But the state says the crown's case – though circumstantial – was made up of proof that pointed to Mr Singh "excluding other suspects." This will include testimony that DNA obtained from a object at the location was 3.8 billion times more probable to have come from Mr Singh than a unrelated individual of the public. The jury has previously been told evidence indicating that Ms Cordingley's phone departed the beach after the killing – and that its movements matched those of a vehicle owned by the defendant. Mr Singh's sudden departure from Australia also suggested his involvement, the state has claimed. Defence Stance "While authorities were discovering Toyah's body, he was arranging... a rushed one way trip back to India," the prosecutor said previously as he opened his case. The defense is has not present any evidence, but in his opening address, Mr Singh's barrister Greg McGuire described his client as a "placid" and "compassionate" man, who was in the "incorrect location at the unfortunate moment." He also foreshadowed evidence to come subsequently that, after his apprehension, Mr Singh told an plainclothes agent he had seen two masked men attack Ms Cordingley and then had run away in terror – something he said was his "gravest error." The defense attorney has also said he will testify about other people "both known and unknown" who should come under suspicion. Additional Testimony Ms Cordingley's boyfriend at the time, Marco Heidenreich, whom police quickly ruled out as a possible suspect, was among those who gave evidence last week. The trial was informed he was an immediate police suspect – and that he had faced questions from Ms Cordingley's father about whether he was implicated in his girlfriend's vanishing, prior to her body were discovered. Photographs depicting Mr Heidenreich on a hike with a friend on the date Ms Cordingley disappeared have been presented to the jury, with an expert saying he was certain the photos were genuine and had not been altered in any manner. The case will return to the more conventional setting of the courtroom on the next day.