OZ POLICE OFFER $633K FOR INFO ON INDIAN MURDER ACCUSED

CANBERRA: Australian police offered a 1 million Australian dollar ($633,000) reward on Thursday for information on the whereabouts of an Indian national who is suspected of murdering a woman on a tropical beach four years ago before returning to his homeland.

Queensland state police officers who speak Hindi and Punjabi are waiting in an office in Cairns to be contacted from India via WhatsApp or online about where Rajwinder Singh, 38, can be found, detective inspector Sonia Smith said.

Singh was a nurse working at Innisfail, south of Cairns, when the body of Toyah Cordingley, 24, was found on Wangetti Beach on October 22, 2018.

She had gone to the beach, north of Cairns, to walk her dog the day before. Singh flew from Cairns to Sydney the day Cordingley’s body was found and left for India the following day, police said.

Police minister Mark Ryan approved the reward and was confident people knew where Singh could be found.