Public rally to help Toyah
A GROUP of Northern Beaches residents will use metal detectors and drones on Wangetti Beach later this week in an effort to uncover evidence in relation to Toyah Cordingley’s murder.
Organiser David Trimble said there were many who wanted to help find answers.
“It’s really devastated the community,” he said.
It comes as police have made an appeal to a family seen picnicking at Wangetti Beach on October 21.
SOME Northern Beaches residents plan to search Wangetti Beach with metal detectors and drones later this week in the hunt for clues to Toyah Cordingley’s murder.
Organiser and Clifton Beach resident David ‘Prong’ Trimble said there were many who wanted to help find answers.
“It’s really devastated the community,” he said.
“It’s something we shouldn’t have to deal with, simple as that.”
Toyah 24, had gone to Wangetti Beach about 2pm last Sunday to walk her dog and never returned.
Her body was found early on Monday morning by her father Troy.
“Everybody feels like they need to help in some way or another and they feel they haven’t been able to,” Mr Trimble said.
The search has been set down to take place this Sunday, November 4 however Mr Trimble said the finer details of the effort were still being ironed out.
Meanwhile, the owner of Cairns City Tattoo and Wangetti resident Duane Cash, who has known Toyah’s family for about 25 years, is planning a fundraiser on the same day.
There will be a flash sheet of about 10 or 20 tattoos, which will all have a special link to Toyah, with all proceeds going to her family.
“I want to raise about $20,000 for her family, that’s my aim,” Mr Cash said. This senseless, cowardly act … has affected the whole town.
“We’re just trying to do what we can to help and show that there is a bit of love out there.”
Both Mr Trimble and Mr Cash have the support of Toyah’s family.
Investigators have reopened the beach after keeping constant vigil over the site since Monday. Yesterday, a lone man visited the deserted Wangetti beach carrying a bunch of flowers.
Police are particularly appealing to a family seen picnicking at the southern carpark of Wangetti Beach on the day she was believed to have been killed to come forward.
“We have information that it was two adults and two kids, and they left the beach area at about 1.20pm,” Detective Inspector Sonia Smith said.
“We’re just keen to speak to them to see what they saw and talk about what they observed while they were down in this area … they’re witnesses to us.”
Det-Inspector Smith said police would stop at nothing to find justice for Ms Cordingley and her family.
“This has been a violent crime that has a huge impact on our community,” she said.