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The person accused of killing Queensland lady Toyah Cordingley on a tropical seaside was being extradited from India in a single day to face court docket in Australia.
Rajwinder Singh, 38, boarded a Qantas flight from New Delhi sure for Melbourne on Tuesday night, the ABC experiences.
He was escorted by seven law enforcement officials from India’s Tihar Jail in New Delhi — the most important in South Asia.
The Australian citizen of Indian origin was handed over from Indian authorities to Queensland police on the gate of the flight, mentioned the ABC.
It is an enormous step ahead within the case, 4 years after Ms Cordingley’s father discovered her physique on a seaside north of Cairns, half-buried within the sand.
Police mentioned the suspect Singh, a nurse who had been residing in Innisfail on the time, flew to India the day after her physique was discovered and had remained there for 4 years.
He was arrested in New Delhi in November final 12 months after the Queensland authorities offered a $1 million reward for information — the most important within the state’s historical past.
The BBC experiences Singh will first have to look in court docket in Victoria earlier than being moved to Queensland.
He may face a Justice of the Peace in Brisbane later this week.
Final week, Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll police have been grateful Singh would quickly be going through court docket in Queensland.
“However behind that, there’s all the time that tragic lack of a younger life,” Ms Carroll mentioned.
Ms Carroll has beforehand mentioned the investigation to search out Singh was some of the intense and complete in a few years.
Ms Cordingley’s demise had shocked and outraged individuals in Queensland, she mentioned.
“She was a wonderful, much-loved particular person, simply innocently going about her day.”
