A former nurse must serve a 25-year non-parole period for fatally stabbing Toyah Cordingley, seven years after her body was discovered on an isolated beach.
Rajwinder Singh, 41, was on Tuesday given a life sentence a day after being found guilty of murder in the Cairns Supreme Court following a four-week retrial.
Singh, 41, repeatedly stabbed Ms Cordingley and slashed her throat at a far-north Queensland beach in October 2018 before fleeing to India, spending years in hiding.
Toyah Cordingley was found dead on Wangetti Beach in north Queensland the day after she was reported missing.
Cordingley, 24, was discovered by her father half-buried in dunes at Wangetti Beach, north of Cairns, a day after she failed to return from walking her dog.
A jury reached a guilty verdict on Monday after about seven hours of deliberating.
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Singh’s first trial ended in a hung jury eight months ago.
Cordingley had taken her dog to Wangetti Beach on October 21, 2018.
Her family raised the alarm when she didn’t return before her father made the grisly discovery the next morning about 80 metres from her car.
