A Supreme Court trial has heard the man charged with murdering Cairns woman Toyah Cordingley is kind and caring and had never owned a knife. The defence for former nurse Rajwinder Singh has opened its case on the second day of a trial expected to last more than three weeks.
00:00Rajwinder Singh has always denied killing 24-year-old Toya Cordingly on Wangeti Beach north of Cairns in October 2018 and has pleaded not guilty to her murder.
00:12A Supreme Court trial in Cairns has heard the Crown's case against Mr Singh relies on circumstantial evidence involving CCTV footage of his car and telephone data the Crown says points to his involvement in her death and his efforts to distance himself from the crime.
00:29Mr Singh's defence team began by painting a picture of a quietly spoken caring man who claimed to have never raised his voice to anyone.
00:38Barrister Greg Maguire told the court Mr Singh had never owned a knife let alone the kind capable of inflicting the violent death Miss Cordingly suffered.
00:46Mr Maguire asked the jury to consider why no trace of Toya Cordingly's DNA was ever found on Mr Singh's clothes or in his car and where he could have got the knife he's accused of killing her with.
00:58In her witness testimony Toya Cordingly's mother Vanessa Gardiner described to the court the desperate search for her daughter on the beach where her body would later be found.
01:07She also detailed the last conversation she had with her daughter the day before she died where they discussed a botched attempt to bleach Toya's hair.
01:16Toya Cordingly's former partner and her father are expected to give their witness testimony this afternoon as the trial continues.
01:24Toya Cordingly's former partner and her mother is the fact that she had a
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