Gable Tostee involved in cyber stoush with high school teacher

The Gold Coast man formerly known as Gable Tostee has been caught up in a bitter war of words with a high school teacher he met online, with both claiming abuse and harassment.

The Gold Coast identity formerly known as Gable Tostee is embroiled in a nasty war of words with a high school teacher he met on a dating app, with both claiming they are the victims of “obsessive” online abuse and harassment.

Drama teacher Sabrina Collins says she has gone to police after receiving vile messages from a female friend of Mr Tostee, who now calls himself Eric Thomas.

But Mr Tostee says it is an “obsessive” Ms Collins who has been “stalking” him and his friends and is himself threatening to call the cops, as well as the Queensland Education Department.

High schoolteacher Sabrina Collins claims she has been cyber-bulled by Gable Tostee and his girlfriend. Picture: NIGEL HALLETT

Mr Tostee was acquitted of the murder or manslaughter of his Tinder date Warriena Wright, who plunged to her death from his Surfers Paradise high-rise balcony in ­August 2014.

Ms Collins, a recent British immigrant, says she did not know about Mr Tostee’s past when she hooked up with him online last year.

She said she was “shocked” and “overwhelmed” when she found out but they ­became “friends”.

But Ms Collins says the relationship turned “really toxic” when she began receiving expletive-ridden messages from a close female friend of Mr Tostee’s.

They included one in which the woman called Ms Collins a “f---ing disgusting psycho bitch”, a “pathetic cow” and an “obsessed loser”.

The woman also sent audio messages to Ms Collins ­calling her a “d--khead” and a “c--t”, accusing her of being “on meth” and telling her: “Have a nice life, f---ing psycho, feel free to neck yourself.

“You are no one to him (Tostee) and that’s exactly why he blocked your psycho f---en arse,” the woman told Ms Collins.

Ms Collins, who says she made a verbal complaint to police this year about the incidents, admits sending the woman messages questioning her parenting fitness and asking who had paid for her “parasitic lifestyle”.

The teacher, who has her own YouTube channel, used the audio messages from the woman to make a video called “Trolling Horror Story”.

Ms Collins said she had been the victim of “horrific” abuse and planned to use the experience to help teach students about the toxic culture of social media.

She said it was “very ironic” that Mr Tostee had himself publicly complained about being threatened, abused and harassed online.

Mr Tostee last week sent Ms Collins a terse message accusing her of harassment and telling her to “f--k off”.

“Your ‘videos’ not only constitute harassment, they demonstrate obsessive stalking,” he told her.

“If you don’t cease this, I and (his female friend) will pursue criminal charges. At the very least I’ll report your actions to dept of education. I do not care about you, I am not interested, never will be. It’s weird and creepy.”

Mr Tostee sent The ­Sunday Mail screenshots of messages exchanged with Ms Collins asking why he had cut off communication with her and “why do you keep popping up on my Tinder”. “I’ve made it clear to her I do not want to deal with her and have told her to quit ­obsessing over me,” he said.

Gable Tostee has threatened to talk to police and make contact with Education Queensland. File picture

It’s the latest controversy to swirl around Mr Tostee after he took to Facebook in May to publicly call out a Gold Coast pilates instructor he accused of sending him “deranged abuse” on the dating app Bumble.

Mr Tostee posted screenshots of purported messages from the woman telling him to “get off Bumble and Tinder you f--k”, and a reference to the death of Ms Wright.

Mr Tostee and his online supporters then posted negative reviews of the pilates business, with him accusing the owner of “having online anger issues”.

In April, Mr Tostee was caught up in another high-rise apartment drama, ending with a woman being taken to hospital from a Surfers Paradise hotel.

Police sources at the time said Mr Tostee was trying to stop the woman jumping from a 10th floor balcony and there was no suggestion he had done anything wrong.

After the run-in with the pilates instructor, Mr Tostee told one Facebook supporter: “What a dream it would be to live my life in peace.”