His is a name that has been highlighted in headlines around the world. Gable Tostee. The man accused and then cleared of murdering his Tinder date, Warriena Wright.
After four days of deliberation and a near mistrial, a jury last month found the 30-year-old not guilty of causing the New Zealand woman to plunge 14 storeys to her death off the balcony of his Gold Coast apartment.
We’ve heard Tostee’s side of this tragic story before, courtesy of a post he penned on a bodybuilding forum. But tonight we will hear them direct from the carpet layer’s lips in a special (and widely criticised) segment on 60 Minutes. He was reportedly paid a six-figure sum for the segment.
In tonight’s episode, Tostee will be questioned about the events of that August night in 2014, including why he didn’t rush to the 26-year-old’s aide.
“Instinctively, I knew that if I ran out there and somebody saw me looking over the edge and she had actually fallen all the way, it would look like, you know, I – it would not look good,” he says. “It would look like I had forced her over, or something.”
Tostee had forced Wright onto the balcony and closed the door, after their drunken arguments turned into a scuffle – “I restrained her to stop her attacking me,” Tostee tells the program, “I wanted her to stop. I didn’t know what else to do.”
From there, Brisbane’s Supreme Court heard, she tried to climb over the edge to the balcony below and fell to her death. But why the balcony? Why did Tostee not get her to leave via the front door?