Rajwinder Singh launches appeal to overturn conviction and sentence for Toyah Cordingley murder

Rajwinder Singh has launched an appeal against his conviction and sentence for the murder of Queensland woman Toyah Cordingley. Singh, 42, will have his matter heard at a Court of Appeal hearing in Brisbane on Tuesday morning. The father-of-three was last year sentenced to life in prison with a non-parole period of 25 years after being found guilty of murdering 24-year-old Toyah Cordingley in 2018. A court found Singh stabbed and slashed Cordingley to death on Wangetti Beach in Far North Queensland before fleeing to India, where he spent four years in hiding. Cordingley had been exercising on the beach with her dog when she was attacked and killed by Singh, before her body was discovered by her father in a shallow sand grave after she failed to return home. Singh, a former nurse, was extradited from India and charged with her murder in 2022 and pleaded not guilty.