Members of the jury involved in a high-profile Australian murder trial have traveled to the remote shore where the young woman was located.
The 24-year-old victim was repeatedly attacked with a sharp object and buried in a shallow resting place with little or no hope of surviving, the court has been told.
Her body were found by her father the next day on Wangetti Beach – a stretch of shoreline between the tourist centres of Cairns and Port Douglas.
Rajwinder Singh, 41, denies murdering Ms Cordingley on a weekend in October 2018 in northern Australia.
The panel of 12 individuals plus several alternates visited the location along with the judge and legal counsel on Monday morning in Queensland.
In a nod to the hot climate and sweltering heat, Justice Lincoln Crowley wore a casual top, athletic wear and sneakers rather than traditional court attire.
Both the lead prosecution and defense attorneys selected polo shirts, shorts and baseball caps.
The court members were guided around three-quarters of a mile north up the sand to see where Ms Cordingley's remains were discovered.
Earlier, as they arrived by bus, four red and white cones showed where the vehicle had been left.
The visit was intended to help the panel become familiar with key locations in the case and no testimony was given.
Previously, the court heard that the day after Ms Cordingley's body were discovered, Mr Singh departed from Australia to India – leaving behind his wife, family and parents.
He was not heard from until he was apprehended four years later, the state said.
It is claimed that the defendant, who was employed in healthcare in the town of Innisfail, south of Cairns, had a altercation with Ms Cordingley.
The victim was found wearing a swimwear, with all her other clothes and belongings missing.
Those items were taken by the killer to conceal evidence, the prosecution allege.
Her pet, Indie, which Ms Cordingley had taken to the beach for a walk, was found tied up to a post hidden in bushland about 30 metres from the burial site.
The weapon was ever recovered, and no one have been found.
But the state says the crown's case – though circumstantial – was comprised proof that indicated Mr Singh "excluding other suspects."
This will involve evidence that DNA obtained from a object at the location was 3.8 billion times more likely to have come from Mr Singh than a random member of the population.
The jury has previously been told evidence suggesting that Ms Cordingley's phone departed the beach after the incident – and that its travel matched those of a blue Alfa Romeo belonging to the accused.
Mr Singh's sudden departure from Australia also suggested his involvement, the prosecution has claimed.
"While authorities were finding Toyah's remains, he was organizing... a rushed one way trip back to India," the prosecutor said last week as he opened his case.
The defense is yet to present any evidence, but in his initial statement, the defense attorney the lawyer portrayed his client as a "calm" and "caring" man, who was in the "incorrect location at the unfortunate moment."
He also hinted at evidence to come later in the trial that, after his arrest, Mr Singh informed an plainclothes agent he had seen assailants assault Ms Cordingley and then had fled in fear – something he said was his "gravest error."
Mr McGuire has also said he will testify about other people "both known and unknown" who should come under investigation.
Ms Cordingley's partner, the witness, whom authorities excluded as a possible suspect, was among those who testified previously.
The trial heard he was an immediate police suspect – and that he had faced questions from Ms Cordingley's parent about whether he was involved in his girlfriend's vanishing, even before her remains were found.
Images depicting the witness on a walk with a companion on the day Ms Cordingley went missing have been presented to the court, with an specialist saying he was certain the photos were genuine and had not been altered in any way.
The case will return to the standard environment of the courthouse on Tuesday.
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