Appeal date has now been set in Toyah murder case
Queensland courts
A Court of Appeal date has been set in the Toyah Cordingley murder case for Tuesday, October 13.
Former Innisfail nurse Rajwinder Singh was convicted by a jury in December of Ms Cordingley’s murder at Wangetti Beach, but lodged an appeal in January against the conviction and sentence.
The case is now set to be heard by a trio of Supreme Court Justices in the Court of Appeal in a little under four month’s time.
Mr Singh was sentenced to life imprisonment with a 25-year non-parole period for the murder of Ms Cordingley nearly eight years ago.
The about month-long trial culminated with the jury handing down a unanimous guilty verdict after about seven hours of deliberation.
A former Paws and Claws animal shelter volunteer, Ms Cordingley was murdered on the afternoon of Sunday, October 21, 2018, at the remote beach, about 30km south of Port Douglas.
Her body was found buried in a shallow grave at the beach the next day by her father Troy.
A retrial took place after Singh's original trial earlier last year ended in a hung jury.
The nine men and three women decided Mr Singh was guilty and he was sentenced by Justice Lincoln Crowley.