🔗 Share this article Panel of Jurors in High-Profile Australian Homicide Trial Tours Shoreline Where Victim Was Discovered The body of Toyah Cordingley was discovered on a remote beach in Far North Queensland in 2018. Members of the jury overseeing a widely publicized Queensland homicide case have traveled to the remote beach where the victim was discovered. The 24-year-old victim was multiple times attacked with a bladed weapon and buried in a shallow resting place with minimal chance of survival, the court has been told. The remains were discovered by a family member the next day on Wangetti Beach – a section of coastline between the popular destinations of Cairns and Port Douglas. Rajwinder Singh, 41, has pleaded not guilty to killing Ms Cordingley on a weekend in October 2018 in northern Australia. Jury Inspection to Beach The jury of 10 men and two women plus several alternates attended the beach along with the judge and legal counsel on the start of the week in Queensland. In a acknowledgment of the tropical conditions and sweltering heat, Justice Lincoln Crowley wore a casual top, sport shorts and trainers rather than a wig and robes. Both the lead prosecution and defense attorneys selected polo shirts, bottoms and baseball caps. Location Details The court members were guided around three-quarters of a mile north up the sand to see 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 visit was designed to help the jurors become acquainted with important sites in the case and no testimony was given. Background of the Case Last week, the Cairns Supreme Court heard that the day after Ms Cordingley's body were found, the accused flew from Australia to India – leaving behind his spouse, family and parents. He was out of contact until he was apprehended four years later, the state said. Justice Lincoln Crowley with legal representatives and other court officials at Wangetti Beach. State Case It is claimed that Mr Singh, who was working as a nurse in the town of Innisfail, south of Cairns, had a altercation with Ms Cordingley. The pharmacy worker was found wearing a swimwear, with all her other clothes and belongings absent. Those items were removed by the assailant to conceal evidence, the prosecution contend. Her dog, Indie, which Ms Cordingley had brought along for a walk, was located secured to a post concealed in bushland about 30 metres from the burial site. The weapon was found, and no one have been found. But the prosecution says the crown's case – though circumstantial – was made up of proof that pointed to Mr Singh "excluding other suspects." This will involve testimony that DNA obtained from a object at the scene was 3.8 billion times more probable to have originated from Mr Singh than a unrelated individual of the population. The court has previously been told testimony indicating that Ms Cordingley's phone left the scene after the killing – and that its travel matched those of a blue Alfa Romeo belonging to the defendant. Mr Singh's sudden departure from Australia also pointed to his involvement, the state has claimed. Defence Stance "As the police were finding Toyah's body, he was organizing... a rushed one way trip back to India," Mr Crane said previously as he opened his case. The defense is yet to provided testimony, but in his initial statement, Mr Singh's barrister Greg McGuire described his defendant as a "calm" and "compassionate" man, who was in the "wrong place at the wrong time." He also hinted at evidence to come later in the trial that, after his arrest, Mr Singh informed an undercover officer he had seen assailants attack Ms Cordingley and then had run away in terror – something he said was his "biggest mistake." Mr McGuire has also said he will give evidence about individuals "identified and unidentified" who should come under investigation. Additional Testimony Ms Cordingley's boyfriend at the time, Marco Heidenreich, whom police quickly ruled out as a possible suspect, was one who testified last week. 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 implicated in his partner's disappearance, even before her remains were discovered. Photographs depicting the witness on a walk with a friend on the day Ms Cordingley disappeared have been presented to the court, with an specialist saying he was confident the pictures were genuine and had not been doctored in any way. The case will resume to the more conventional setting of the courtroom on the next day.