Overview
- A Cairns Supreme Court jury returned a unanimous guilty verdict after a four-week retrial, following a hung jury in the first trial.
- Justice Lincoln Crowley called the murder an opportunistic, extremely violent attack and heard harrowing victim impact statements from Cordingley’s family.
- Forensic DNA recovered from a stick at the scene was billions of times more likely to be Singh’s than a random person’s, supported by phone, CCTV and traffic data mapping movements after the attack.
- Singh fled Australia the day after the killing, was arrested in New Delhi in November 2022, and was extradited to Australia in 2023.
- Queensland Police confirmed the record A$1 million reward for information leading to Singh’s capture was paid to multiple confidential claimants.