Murder trial jury visits Wangetti Beach where Toyah Cordingley's body was found

ABC NEWS (Australia)

A supreme court jury have been taken to an isolated beach where a young woman was murdered in far north Queensland. 24-year-old Toyah Cordingley was walking her dog in broad daylight when she was killed six years ago north of Cairns. Rajwinder Singh has pleaded not guilty.

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00:00Casual dress for the gravest of matters.

00:05Supreme Court Justice James Henry traded his robes for shorts and a hat

00:10as proceedings moved from the courthouse to Wongetti Beach, north of Cairns.

00:15Under police escort, the jury was bused to the scene where its alleged toy,

00:20accordingly, was murdered in October 2018.

00:24She died after her throat was cut.

00:27Police allege nurse and father of three Rawinda Singh killed her

00:31and left the country in the following days.

00:34The view arranged for the jury of eight men and four women to provide

00:39locational context, beginning with where the 24-year-old's car was found.

00:44Jurors then walked several kilometres up the beach,

00:48with traffic cones marking points of interest,

00:51including the site where Miss Cordingley's body was found

00:54and where her dog was tied to a tree.

00:57This extraordinary sitting of a Supreme Court session

01:01follows on from emotional scenes in court yesterday

01:04when the wife of the accused gave evidence.

01:08Speaking through a Punjabi interpreter, Sukdeep Kaur told the court

01:12she had not seen or spoken to her husband in six years

01:16and nor had their children.

01:18She told the court Singh left their family home in Innisfail,

01:22carrying only a little handbag, and said he would be back the next day.

01:27It would be four years before he was extradited back to Australia

01:31and charged with Miss Cordingley's murder.

01:33The trial continues.

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