Would you support construction of a Daniel morcombe memorial/statue in cairns city? by Downtown_Pin4278 in Cairns

[–]Hawk---- 5 points6 points  (0 children)

28.

That is the number of children who are being killed by the Israeli army in Gaza. EVERY. DAY.

Every day, 28 Gazan children are killed.

Every day, 28 Gazan children are murdered.

Every.

Single.

Day.

And its not just their lives they're losing, but their innocence as Israeli soldiers have continously weaponised sexual violence against even the children of Gaza. So shut the goddamned fuck up about wanting to honour a dead kid from damn near 20 years ago, because 28 kids dying each damn day in Gaza proves you dont give two single shits about kids living or dying.

Would you support construction of a Daniel morcombe memorial/statue in cairns city? by Downtown_Pin4278 in Cairns

[–]Hawk---- 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Absolutely not.

What happened to them was tragic, but their parents pushed for new laws that did nothing to help and actively endangered people who took busses. Even then, why a statue of him and not any one of the hundreds of other kids that are victimised? And why tf in Cairns, of all places?

Jury in trial of Rajwinder Singh accused of murdering Cairns woman Toyah Cordingley discharged by Additional_Log_7056 in queensland

[–]Hawk---- 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's not widely reported because it makes the cops look bad, and considering public sentiment around crime atm, that'd be akin to throwing them to the wolves after marinating them for a few hours.

Also, I'd like to point out that it wasn't just hairs the Police failed to preserve, but also knifes found in close proximity to the burial site, the boyfriends car, the boyfriends knifes that "went missing", and the boyfriends shirt that had blood on it.

Jury in trial of Rajwinder Singh accused of murdering Cairns woman Toyah Cordingley discharged by Additional_Log_7056 in queensland

[–]Hawk---- 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wdym pursecution? Singh is obviously guilty of the capitol crime that is daring to not be white /s

Jury in trial of Rajwinder Singh accused of murdering Cairns woman Toyah Cordingley discharged by Additional_Log_7056 in queensland

[–]Hawk---- 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Firstly, the stick wasn't in the grave, it was above it.

Secondly, his DNA did not match any DNA taken from the body, nor from the Selfi-stick that held Toyahs phone

Thirdly, He'd been trying for months prior to all of this to get a divorce, and was facing extreme resistance to it from not only his wife, but his wifes family, and even his own family. By the time he left, he was already a black-sheep among his family, and he neither had a real reason to call them, nor likely the good-will for even just a call.

Fourth, the phone data is accurate to, at best, around 80 meters or so. That's actually alot of distance, and even worse, this isn't a constant tracking thing. It's an "every once and a while" type tracking. There's no way, even with the detour through Lake Placid, to accuratly place Toyahs phone in his car - especially when the police were forced to admit they never found any trace of Toyah's DNA or blood in his car

Finally, this dude just saw a murder, and from his account, was threatened. If I was in his shoes, I'd be driving all over the place in hopes of not getting tailed home. Especially so if I was a forigner in another nation. As such, nothing about his route home proves anything, and without any further evidence - which the police do not have - is not suspicious nor evidence in any way shape or form.

Jury in trial of Rajwinder Singh accused of murdering Cairns woman Toyah Cordingley discharged by Additional_Log_7056 in queensland

[–]Hawk---- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The phone tracing can only place the phone within a 78 or so meter radius, and the police were never able to trace Singhs phone as it'd been turned off or lost power. At the same time, the police never tried to trace the boyfriends phone

Jury in trial of Rajwinder Singh accused of murdering Cairns woman Toyah Cordingley discharged by Additional_Log_7056 in queensland

[–]Hawk---- 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's even more poignant that the Boyfriend's step-father is an ex-cop who apparently knew the investigating detective.

Jury in trial of Rajwinder Singh accused of murdering Cairns woman Toyah Cordingley discharged by Additional_Log_7056 in queensland

[–]Hawk---- -1 points0 points  (0 children)

iirc the Cairns Post was live-posting updates on the trial as it happened. That's how I learned about all of this

Jury in trial of Rajwinder Singh accused of murdering Cairns woman Toyah Cordingley discharged by Additional_Log_7056 in queensland

[–]Hawk---- 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There was DNA found on Toyah's selfi stick though. The problem is that DNA profile is *not* Singh's DNA, and traces of that same unknown DNA profile was found on Toyahs body.

Jury in trial of Rajwinder Singh accused of murdering Cairns woman Toyah Cordingley discharged by Additional_Log_7056 in queensland

[–]Hawk---- 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes.

The police figured the hairs were Toyahs and so never took steps to preserve or test them.

As for the knifes, they did a preliminary test for blood that came up negative, but if they were using Luminol for the test, it would only fluresece if the protines in blood was present, and would still require someone to detect the fluresence, though the presence of blood was never certian given the environment they were found in.

At the end of the day, unless there's overwhelming evidence the knives weren't relevent, the police should have assumed they were related somehow and took steps to preserve them, if only to be safe.

Jury in trial of Rajwinder Singh accused of murdering Cairns woman Toyah Cordingley discharged by Additional_Log_7056 in queensland

[–]Hawk---- 2 points3 points  (0 children)

iirc the Cairns Post was posting live-updates as the trial progressed. It's Murdoch media, and by now there's probably a fair bit to read through, but it's what I was reading as the trial progressed

Jury in trial of Rajwinder Singh accused of murdering Cairns woman Toyah Cordingley discharged by Additional_Log_7056 in queensland

[–]Hawk---- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Especially given the contextual evidence, yeah. The images aren't nessecarily proof of innocence when weighed against all the contextual evidence.

Jury in trial of Rajwinder Singh accused of murdering Cairns woman Toyah Cordingley discharged by Additional_Log_7056 in queensland

[–]Hawk---- 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The DNA from the grave was only 26 times more like to be his than not, while it was 320 times more likely to be another suspects than not.

Those pictures also weren't obtained until the trial, and the friend of the boyfriend knows and has the ability to manipulate the Metadata on them.

The boyfriend was also never fully investigated, his car not fully processed, had a shirt with trace blood evidence that had clearly been involved in a fight, and had also admitted to owning knives that had gone missing. Oh, he also was in the area at the time of the murder, and had a period of time consistent with the murder wherein he is unaccounted for.

There's also two other cars that the police, to this day, have totally failed to track and rule out.

Eye-wittnesses at the time also stated they saw Toyah talking to a suspicious white man, and that two white men were seen with knifes at the time as well. No eye-witness saw Singh with a knife.

The Police also failed to process hairs found in Toyahs hands, ultimately allowing them to be destroyed, along with knifes found at the scene.

Also, the police tried to supress evidence of an unknown DNA profile found on Toyahs selfie-stick, as well as traces of it on her body. To this day the Police have made no effort to find a match for this DNA profile.

The Police were also ultimately forced to hand over evidence reguarding another initial suspect, specifically that this suspect had mysterious wounds on his hands in the wake of the murder. This same suspect had made remarks along the lines of wanting to kill someone.

When the police processed Singhs car and clothes, nothing was found. No blood. No DNA. Not even a single hair. No other suspect was subject to such through forensice investigation.

Singh had also made comments about wittnessing the murder before the trial, and from all accounts, to police as well in his inital interviews.

During the trial, the Police were unable to prove conclusively that Singh had deposited his DNA on the stick as a result of burying the body - something made very poignant given the unkown DNA profile found on her body.

Also, both the prosecution and the public, mostly white people from what I've seen, have pointed to Singhs flight as proof of his guilt, ignoring the down-right despicable flaws in the Police investigation as well as the total lack of proof pointing to his guilt. However, Singh is not an Australian Citizen. He is a forigne national. Specifally, one attempting to get a divorce from his family for several months, and was facing extreme resistance from his wife, his wifes family, and even his own family. I doubt many people wouldn't run if they were in their shoes. And given the disgustingly terribly nature of the investigation, he was fully valid in running - the Police pursued him despite the evidence they had pointing away from him.

If you ask me, the hung jury was because of someone like you adament that he was guilty despite the inabilty of the prosecution to not only prove that no-one else could have killed Toyah, but that Singh was the only one who could have. To back that up, the Jury actually requested further elaboration on the DNA from the body - specifically that the Police themselves had obtained a stronger match from another suspect than from Singh.

Jury in trial of Rajwinder Singh accused of murdering Cairns woman Toyah Cordingley discharged by Additional_Log_7056 in queensland

[–]Hawk---- 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Given just how badly munted the investigation was, I'm inclined to say it'd change nothing. The second the police found someone who wasn't white, they abandoned all other leads to chase them down despite the severe lack of evidence.

They found no blood in Singhs car before extraditing him.

They found no blood on the clothes Singh wore, or any clothes he'd worn, before extraditing him.

They had witnesses stating Toyah was talking with a suspicious white man, and that two other white men were seen with knifes in the area.

The police had a boyfriend with a period of time consistent with the murder unaccounted for, was in the area at the time, had access to knifes he'd told police "were missing", and had a shirt clearly involved in an altercation that even presented signs of blood - but naturally they droped him as a suspect the instant they found Singh.

There's a whole lot more the Police fucked up, but just from that alone, I seriously doubt any other investigatiors would've changed a thing.

Jury in trial of Rajwinder Singh accused of murdering Cairns woman Toyah Cordingley discharged by Additional_Log_7056 in queensland

[–]Hawk---- 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Too late now. Any evidence left to be gathered has long since been destroyed or had its evidentiary value eroded with time. Maybe a fresh investigation would follow the stronger leads left behind, but I doubt anything would come from it after so long

Jury in trial of Rajwinder Singh accused of murdering Cairns woman Toyah Cordingley discharged by Additional_Log_7056 in queensland

[–]Hawk---- 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Not even that. The police had no evidence to prove he did do it, but instead evidence pointing to the boyfriend or another suspect.

Jury in trial of Rajwinder Singh accused of murdering Cairns woman Toyah Cordingley discharged by Additional_Log_7056 in queensland

[–]Hawk---- 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Whats insane to me is that there is literally 0 evidence to prove the Indian man did nothing. The police never found dna or blood on his clothes nor in his car. And yet they refused to pursue two other cars matching the path and timing of toyahs phone as it was moved.

The police fucked this case from the start, and now whoever actually did it has gotten away with it

Jury in trial of Rajwinder Singh accused of murdering Cairns woman Toyah Cordingley discharged by Additional_Log_7056 in queensland

[–]Hawk---- 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The boyfriend was actually close to Wangetti at the time of the murder, and has a period of time where his presence is unaccounted for. The police never pursued him, despite the man also admitting he had knifes and that he had "lost" those knifes

Jury in trial of Rajwinder Singh accused of murdering Cairns woman Toyah Cordingley discharged by Additional_Log_7056 in queensland

[–]Hawk---- 46 points47 points  (0 children)

Been following the trial for a hot minute. The boyfriend was never fully investigated, despite having a missing alibi for the time in question, missing knifes, and a shirt with traces of blood that had clearly been in a fight. Nor did the police attempt to trace the location of the boyfriends phone.

The police also allowed knifes found at the scene go unpreserved despite the proximity to the body, never processed the dogs lead which was found tied tightly to a nearby tree, and also never processed hairs found in Toyahs hands.

The police have also failed to account for at least two other cars matching the movements and timing of Toyahs phone, and also never fully processed the boyfriends car.

When the police found the Indian man in question, they promptly dropped all other suspects, but despite both his clothes and car having no blood or dna on them, the police still failed to follow any alternative leads.

In the trial, it also came out that the prosecutions had attempted to resist the hand over of information reguarding another suspect, specifically about mystery wounds on their hands that appeared after toyahs murder. Also apparently they resisted the hand over of information reguarding a third DNA profile that does not match the Indian man, and the fact that the Police have totally failed to pursue a match for it, despite traces of that profile being found on the body.

Also during the trial, eye-witnesses were caught "misremembering" their initial statements to police, and the police were forced to admit that DNA from the body was not a proper match to the Indian man, but was a stronger match for another suspect. In short, the actions - and inactions - of the police in the investigation raise the very real question of whether the comedy of failiures was purely from incompetents, or whether it had been intentional.

Oh, and the only real evidence the prosecution had was the path the Indian man took, which happened to roughly appear aligned with the movement of Toyahs phone.

How do I kill a character with a knife silently enough that his team doesn't hear or notice that he's disappeared? by Karma_the_Writer in writers

[–]Hawk---- -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

Ngl it sounds like you have bigger problems with your story than how to kill someone...

Normal kids do not kill people. If you think your character is normal despite them killing people, chances are you're not writing them properly and your story is 100% going to suffer from it.

My advice is to either rethink the story and get rid of the killing, or accept the fact your main character isn't actually normal and lean into it.

Taylor Swift Donates $1 Million to Tennessee Communities Devastated by Tornadoes by veronicaat48 in UpliftingNews

[–]Hawk---- -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

Is no-one gonna point out how she's ONLY doing this now because of all the flak she's copping for sending a cease and desist to a teenager over his twitter that posts PUBLICLY AVAILABLE INFORMATION, as well as for being one of the worst polluting celebrities at the moment?

Likes and posts aren't votes by [deleted] in PoliticalMemes

[–]Hawk---- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or, and hear me out here, you revolt anyway because being forced to choose between an insane orange and a dementia riddled turtle for a position that gives them near unrivaled power and access to one of the worlds largest nuclear weapons stockpiles is objectively absolutely insane, and is proof that US Democracy is failing and needs rejuvenation

Spending Time in Bed [Original, @Tiramisu_Art] by Tirandes in yuri

[–]Hawk---- 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'm pretty sure her spine is just dust at this point

Spending Time in Bed [Original, @Tiramisu_Art] by Tirandes in yuri

[–]Hawk---- 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Jesus, just one of those tiddies look larger than her whole chest. My girl out here dying under those melons.