After seven years, justice has finally been delivered for the family of young Queensland woman Toyah Cordingley.
Former hospital nurse Rajwinder Singh has been found guilty of murdering the 24-year-old pharmacy worker, whose body was discovered in the sand dunes of Wangetti Beach, north of Cairns, in October 2018.
Cordingley was found by her father in the isolated stretch of coastline, sparking a major investigation that ultimately led to Singh, now 41, being charged.
He had pleaded not guilty throughout the four-week retrial at the Cairns Supreme Court.
The jury reached its verdict on Monday afternoon after about seven hours of deliberation.
The verdict comes nine months after Singh’s first trial ended in a hung jury, bringing long-awaited closure to one of Queensland’s most closely watched cases.
