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.