Dad’s agony at Toyah’s violent death

TOYAH Cordingley’s grieving dad Troy cannot put words to the horrific vision of her slain body in the sand dunes, except to say: “She was messed up.”

TOYAH Cordingley’s grieving dad Troy cannot put words to the horrific vision of her slain body in the sand dunes except to say: “She was messed up.”

Six days after he found the body of his beloved 24-year-old daughter murdered on Wangetti Beach, police believe she was the victim of a random attack by an unknown killer.

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“Homicide detectives are investigating the distinct possibility Toyah did not know her attacker,’’ a police source told The Courier-Mail.

New photos yesterday emerged of Ms Cordingley the day before she was killed, believed to be among the last taken of the 24-year-old.

They show Ms Cordingley manning a camel dairy milk tasting stall at her workplace on Saturday.

Ms Cordingley worked for Barr St Wholehealth Pharmacy and Healthfoods in Earlville.

The pharmacy retail business shared images of the blonde-haired woman wearing a green uniform shirt, black pants and a black cloth headband while pouring camel’s milk tasting cups for customers.

Toyah Cordingley with stepfather Troy

Lead investigators have declined to publicly reveal the grisly findings of an autopsy into how she died, her injuries and time of death.

The “beautiful soul” and “gypsy spirit”, striking in appearance with long blonde hair, blue eyes and bright smile, had taken her dog for a Sunday afternoon walk on the secluded beach, 40km north of Cairns.

But she never came back.

Her father Troy Cordingley led a search party to look for her along the 4km-long Wangetti Beach, a known crocodile habitat and a haunt for “oddbods”, vagrants and illegal bush camps, early Monday.

One of the last known photos of Toyah Cordingley as she manned a camel dairy stall at the Barr St Markets in Earlville the day before her disappearance.

It was there he found her body with “visible and violent injuries” in a monstrous scene no parent could bare to contemplate.

Ms Cordingley’s boyfriend Marco Heidenrich has been ruled out as a suspect as homicide investigators look at the prospect it was a random attack.

“He (Marco) has been very helpful with police and officers have run out his version of events which stack up,” police said.

“Obviously people close to the victims do become suspects early in the murder inquiry.

“We never count someone out entirely, but at this stage we are looking in a different direction.”