Yes. Her mother found Indie, but she had to ask Toyah's father to help untie her. It must have been tightly attached. And the big dog could not get herself out of the knot to even sit down. Lead was probably full of others DNA
I think the fight was about Indie, and Singh angrily tying her to the tree was the act that triggered the physical violence.
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Sounds like 'beyond reasonably doubt' to me.
The defense is planting doubt. If Toyah didn’t tie Indie up tight, then someone else did and that person may not have been Singh. This is being used to argue that there’s enough uncertainty to prevent a conviction.
Closing arguments to begin in trial of Rajwinder Singh, accused of killing Toyah Cordingley
The jury in the former Innisfail nurse's murder trial has heard more than three weeks of evidence.
Among the final witnesses to be called by prosecutors was Ms Cordingley's close friend Megan Pritchard, who told the court Indie would accompany Ms Cordingley when they went to swimming holes together.
"As much as she could, Toyah would let [Indie] run off lead because she had voice control over her?" Mr Singh's barrister, Greg McGuire KC, asked.
"Correct," Ms Pritchard replied
I wish. One single unanswered question, such as who tied up Indie, could be enough though to plant doubt and prevent a conviction beyond reasonable doubt. I’m hoping that the cumulative weight of the evidence is too hard for the jury to ignore.
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Depends on the judge. I imagine the jury will be locked up over the weekend. Hopefully they will be able to deliberate over the weekend. Depends if the judge is local, or has been brought up from Brisbane.
Channel 9 news just reported that the jury have been allowed to go home and will be back Monday 10am.
I can--I mean I don't necessarily accept that it's his DNA on, let alone "under", Toyah's fingernail. Because the Y-chromosome material tested might have come from several different men. Apart from that, if the DNA on the fingernail is Singh's, perhaps Toyah might have got it by transfer from the stick. Perhaps she play-wrestled with her dog over the stick not even knowing that Singh had previously done something with it.
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I get the point about transfer being possible, but the problem here is the expert was clear there were no signs of a mixed sample.I can--I mean I don't necessarily accept that it's his DNA on, let alone "under", Toyah's fingernail. Because the Y-chromosome material tested might have come from several different men. Apart from that, if the DNA on the fingernail is Singh's, perhaps Toyah might have got it by transfer from the stick. Perhaps she play-wrestled with her dog over the stick not even knowing that Singh had previously done something with it.
On one test, 26 of the 27 genetic markers on the fingernail sample matched those of Mr Singh's Y-chromosome, while on a second test, all 27 markers matched.
"If you assume they're from one individual, one male, they all correspond to Mr Singh's DNA profile," Ms Patel said.
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Under cross-examination from defence barrister Kate Juhasz, Ms Patel said she could not say where on the fingernail the DNA sample was from.
Ms Patel said there were not "any signals on the [fingernail] DNA profile to alert me there was likely to be a mixture of men in the sample".
"If you assume those results originated from one male, then they couldn't have originated from Mr Heidenreich," she said.
Closing arguments to begin in trial of Rajwinder Singh, accused of killing Toyah Cordingley
The jury in the former Innisfail nurse's murder trial has heard more than three weeks of evidence.
