Overview
- Rajwinder Singh, 41, pleaded not guilty in the Supreme Court in Cairns to the alleged 2018 murder of Toyah Cordingley at Wangetti Beach.
- Prosecutors outlined mobile tower data, DNA from sticks at the burial site, and movements of a distinctive blue car, alleging Singh took the victim’s phone and later left for India.
- The court heard Singh’s phone was off for six hours on the day of the killing and his drive home avoided the most direct route, which the Crown says offered chances to dispose of items near water.
- The defence says Singh did not know Cordingley and was in the wrong place at the wrong time, pointing to other men who frequented the area with large knives, including a local tiler flagged for scrutiny.
- Early evidence included a statistic that partial DNA on a stick was billions of times more likely to be Singh’s and confirmation that no murder weapon has been found, with jurors set for a half‑day beach viewing during the three‑week trial.