MELBOURNE, 25 November 2022: Rajwinder Singh the suspected killer of Toyah Cordingley, 24-year-old in Far North Queensland, has been arrested in India’s capital. The accused had reportedly escaped to India via the Sydney Airport.
ANI reports: Delhi police special cell has arrested Rajwinder Singh, accused of killing an Australian woman in Queensland in 2018. The Queensland police had offered AUD 1 million, the largest ever offered by the department in exchange for information about the accused.
The Australian High Commission in a tweet on November 11 had informed about the declaration of the reward of One Million Australian Dollars on the arrest of one Rajwinder Singh, an Indian-origin Australian citizen, who had committed the gruesome murder of an Australian lady on 21/10/2018 in Queensland, Australia, and had been absconding ever since.
“INTERPOL had issued Red Corner Notice (RCN), Control No. A-2639/3-2021 regarding the said accused; the CBI/INTERPOL, New Delhi had got issued a non-bailable warrant, under The Extradition Act, against his name from the Patiala House Court on 21/11/2022,” an official statement from the police read.
“On 25/11/2022 at 06:00 hrs, based upon inputs shared by CBI/INTERPOL and Australian counterparts, in an intelligence-based operation, the accused was apprehended from near GT Karnal Road and arrested by Special Cell u/s 41(1) Cr PC. The accused is being produced before the concerned court as per law for further proceedings,” it added.
Toyah was reported missing on Sunday, October 21, 2018, before her body was tragically discovered the following morning at Wangetti Beach, just north of Cairns.
The story is developing and will be updated.
