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Toyah Cordingley’s accused assassin is ready to return to Australia to face trial over the younger lady’s demise 4 years in the past.

Rajwinder Singh, 38, signed a consent software to be extradited to Australia from India.

‘I do know the implications and nature of the case and am keen to go to Australia and face the trial,’ the appliance signed by Singh learn.

He is accused of murdering Ms Cordingley, 24, on Wangetti Beach, in far north Queensland, in October 2018. 

The 38-year-old appeared earlier than the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate in New Delhi on Tuesday, native time, to file an official assertion. 

Singh instructed the Justice of the Peace he was conscious he may face a life sentence if convicted by an Australian court docket.

The written assertion is the newest step towards Singh’s extradition from India to Australia.

The resolution pre-empts a authorized battle that might have dragged on for years in India’s court docket system which is clogged with some 40 million circumstances.

The Justice of the Peace is anticipated to go an order approving the extradition on Friday.

The order and an ‘inquiry report’ will then be despatched to the Ministry of External Affairs to advise the extradition can proceed because it doesn’t violate any side of India’s extradition regulation.

The Ministry will study the inquiry report earlier than it green-lights the method of sending Singh, who’s in Tihar Jail, again to Australia.

An Indian male nurse (centre, Rajwinder Singh) accused of killing Toyah Cordingley has requested to be extradited to Australia so he can struggle the allegation

‘In the 4 years that he was on the run in India, he had no contact together with his spouse and kids for concern of being caught,’ public prosecutor Ajay Digpaul instructed AAP.

‘This appears to be the first motive for wanting to return.’

Singh, an Australian citizen who was born in India, appeared relaxed in court docket on Tuesday.

The prime suspect within the killing, he was arrested in December by Delhi police after a four-year manhunt that adopted his escape from Australia simply hours after Ms Cordingley’s physique was discovered half-buried in sand dunes on Wangetti Beach.

The extradition authorized crew says Singh may be again in Australia by the top of February.

Ms Cordingley’s physique was discovered half-buried in sand dunes on Wangetti Beach in October, 2018

The Indian authorities has already provisionally consented to Australia’s name for Singh’s extradition however the request wants to be signed off by the court docket.

Australian police need to query Singh over whether or not he stabbed Ms Cordingley after an argument over her canine barking at him.

Australian police mentioned Ms Cordingley, a pharmacy employee, suffered ‘seen, violent accidents’.

Her canine was discovered tied up close by.

Singh, who labored as a nurse and lived in Innisfail, has a spouse and three youngsters in Australia and has instructed his authorized crew in India that he had ‘gone to the seashore for some quiet time carrying some fruit and a knife for chopping fruit’.