Disgraceful vandals trash Toyah Cordingley's memorial 18 months after the pharmacy worker was found murdered on a beach
- Toyah Cordingley, 24, was killed while she walked her boyfriend's dog at a beach
- A monument to commemorate the anniversary of her death was trashed
- Trinkets left by loved ones were found in a bin with a banner featuring her face
- A friend pleaded with the vandals to come forward on Facebook
Toyah Cordingley, 24, was killed while she walked her boyfriend's dog
Heartless vandals have trashed the memorial of a young woman who was brutally murdered on a beach.
Toyah Cordingley, 24, was killed while she walked her boyfriend's dog at Wangetti Beach in Far North Queensland on the morning of October 21, 2018.
A monument was constructed at the beach in October 2019 to commemorate the one year anniversary of the pharmacy assistant's death.
Vandals tore down a banner with Ms Cordingley's face on it on Saturday morning.
They also tossed trinkets left at the site by loved ones in a nearby bin.
Family friend Wayne 'Prong' Trimble noticed the banner - which was printed to help catch the killer - was missing.
A woman who had been walking on the beach told him to go and look in the bin.
'She said ''you need to have look near the bin'' and I went over there and found the banner folded up [next to the bin] with all these trinkets and sea shells and a heap of artificial sun flowers,' he told the Cairns Post.
Family friend Wayne 'Prong' Trimble noticed the banner (pictured) - which was printed to help catch the killer - was missing on Saturday
Vandals tore down a banner with Ms Cordingley's face on it and tossed trinkets left at the site (pictured) by loved ones in a nearby bin
'And you could see that it had been pulled down. I just couldn't work it out when I first seen it.'
He pleaded with the culprits to come forward.
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'Does anybody know the lowlifes who stole Toyah's banner from near her monument in the last couple of days?' he asked on Facebook.
'That banner was given to Toyah's family to hang there. We want it back ... Just put it back to save your life if it's worth saving. I'm pi**ed off.'
Ms Cordingley's naked body was found battered and bruised by her father (pictured) the morning after she was murdered
Wayne 'Prong' Trimble (pictured) pleaded with the vandals to come forward on Facebook
Steve Parsonage from the Copy Shop Business Centre printed a new banner to take its place.
He also gave one to her devastated parents, Troy and Vanessa Cordingley.
The site also has a memorial stone and an area for visitors to sit on.
Ms Cordingley's naked body was found battered and bruised by her father the morning after she was murdered.
Pictured: Toyah Cordingley walking a dog along a beach before she was murdered in 2018
The 24-year-old pharmacy assistant's killer has never been found, despite a full-scale investigation
The dog, Jersey, was found tied to a nearby tree so tightly it could not sit down.
Residents previously told The Courier Mail the dunes where she was found were often the scene of 'sexually deviant' behaviour by 'odd bods' and vagrants.
A full-scale homicide investigation was launched after Ms Cordingley's body was found, with police urging anyone who knew anything or had been at the beach that day to come forward.
Her killer has never been found.
