A Supreme Court jury has listened to Warriena Wright’s last words moments before she fell to her death from the 14th floor balcony of Gable Tostee’s Gold Coast apartment in the early hours of the morning on August 8, 2014.
Tostee, 30, has pleaded not guilty to murdering the 26-year-old New Zealand tourist, whom he met that night via the Tinder dating app.
He was living in the apartment at the time.
Prosecutor Glen Cash told the court the audio recording from Tostee’s mobile phone was a key piece of evidence in the case against him.
The crown began to play the recording to the jury yesterday, and day two of the trial has begun this morning with the remainder of that recording being played to the court.
In the audio, Ms Wright can be heard yelling “no, no, no” before being forced out onto the balcony with the sounds of a door closing behind her.
Seconds later, there is silence from Ms Wright with only the sound of Tostee breathing being heard.
Tostee’s phone also recorded him leaving his apartment building and calling his father.
“Hello dad, I might have a bit of a situation,” Tostee said.
“I met up with a girl for a date … she started getting really aggressive. We had sex in bed and then after that she kept drinking.”
Tostee went on to explain that he and Ms Wright had both been drunk, that she kept beating him up and that he forced her onto the balcony.
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Wow, heavy duty stuff. My interpretation:
They mutually decided to hook up for sex
They both drank heavily
They had sex, she wanted it really rough and wanted to hurt him
He was up for it to a point, he just wanted a f'
It got too rough for him, she hurt him, he got angry
In anger he locked her out on the balcony
Both are still drunk, impaired in judgement, motor skills etc
Appears to be about control for both. She was in control when leading the 'hurt' of him; he now is 'in control' locking her on the balcony
I think he sounded hurt, scared and reacted in anger because of that.
Then when he did react in anger, that scared her.
She, in an impaired state chose to see if she could climb her way off the balcony and fell, tragically to her death.
Reading those transcripts my personal opinion (without benefit of a law degree) is that he is not guilty of murder. I think it's a hook up infused with alcohol, rough play (driven by her) that went tragically pear shaped.
Based on all of that text I agree with you, though I am a bit confused, where did they get all this recorded stuff from? Was he secretly recording her?
I am wondering if this is the full story, but if what has been quoted here is what happened then I think a lot of us have made assumptions that he is some sort of monster when it sounds like he was the one being treated violently, I can understand him trying to lock her out in that situation.
I think it will be interesting to see if she has a history of violence.
I think he began recording when her behaviour got really rough or more aggressive than he expected. I think she'd been hitting him with something? Display rocks or something I read. At some point later he tells her all of it is being recorded.