Videos take us inside Toyah’s beautiful life
FORGOTTEN clips posted by Toyah Cordingley reveal a beautiful insight into the life of a playful and fun-loving 24year-old before her life was brutally extinguished in 2018.
Among the short clips was a video recorded by Toyah’s dad, Troy Cordingley, in 2017 showing the pharmacy worker hiding in an over-sized bag and jumping out for the camera in what was her last Christmas before her life was tragically cut short.
Ten months later on October 21, 2018, while walking her dog at the remote Wangetti Beach Ms Cordingley was attacked and left for dead in a case that shocked the Far North community.
Another video shot at Barr St WholeLife BulkFoods shows Ms Cordingley at work spruiking beauty products and others record the animal lover feeding dogs in her volunteer role at YAPS.
The videos emerge as the man police suspect killed the 24-year-old fronts court on November 30 from New Delhi’s Tihar Jail, after being arrested by Indian police on Friday.
The arrest caps a four-year manhunt and the posting of a record $1m reward.
Buoyed by the arrest of former Innisfail nurse Rajwinder Singh, the Cairns community has come together to demand justice through a new sticker campaign.
Ten thousand stickers will be printed by the Copy Shop Print and Signs, made possible through a community fundraising effort.
Business owner Steve Parsonage said he had sent print files to Brisbane and Melbourne as the nation embraces the idea of bringing Ms Cordingley’s suspected killer to justice. This process will allow people to get as many as they want. Mr Parsonage said the act of picking up a sticker and putting it on the back of a car was in some small way contributing to a community of like-minded people that shared the same goal.
“They feel like they’re part of the process, they feel like they are helping,” he said.
“I think the stickers have actually given a lot of other people hope for a lot of different reasons.”
During the original sticker campaign in November 2018, it’s estimated more than 300,000 stickers were printed throughout the country.