Court sees CCTV of Gable Tostee, Warriena Wright meeting on Gold Coast
VIDEO: CCTV of Warriena Wright and Gable Tostee meeting in Surfers Paradise on the night of her death has this morning been shown to a Brisbane court.
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UPDATE: CCTV has been released capturing the meeting of Warriena Wright and Gable Tostee on that fateful August 2014 night.
It started with a hug on famous Cavill Avenue in Surfers Paradise.
Ms Wright leans in and embraces Mr Tostee, and they head to the nearby Surfers Paradise Beer Garden.
All in all, there’s about seven minutes of Closed Circuit Television footage capturing their meeting on Cavil Avenue at 8.45pm on August 7, 2014 to the pair entering Tostee’s apartment nearby.
About five and a half hours later - about 2.20am on August 8 - Ms Wright was dead.
That’s when the CCTV, tendered to the Brisbane Supreme Court in Tostee’s murder trial today, kicks back in.
About 2.23am, Tostee looks outside the front door of the building then goes to the basement and exits from there.
He is seen wandering the streets of Surfers Paradise for about 45 minutes, and at one stage eats pizza on Orchid Avenue.
The CCTV shows emergency services parked outside the Avalon Apartments, where Tostee lived and where Ms Wright lay on the ground below after falling from his 14th floor balcony.
His father picks him up from Surfers Paradise about 3.10am.
Tostee, 30, has pleaded not guilty to murder over Ms Wright’s death.
It is alleged he “intimidated” the 26-year-old New Zealand national into thinking she had no other choice but to climb over the balcony into the apartment below after he locked her outside.
The trial continues tomorrow.
EARLIER: TWO police officers have this morning been grilled over a telescope allegedly used by Ms Wright to hit Tostee before she fell from the accused killer’s 14th floor Surfers Paradise Balcony.
Gold Coast Criminal Investigation Branch plain clothes Senior Constable Jason Sheldon this morning gave evidence in the Brisbane Surpreme Court.
The officer was tasked to collect evidence, including a small telescope found on the coffee table of Tostee’s apartment, following the death of Ms Wright.
He told the court he found the telescope on the coffee table and the clamp that belonged to it on the floor of the apartment on August 12, 2014.
Tostee’s defence barrister Saul Holt QC quizzed Mr Sheldon over whether he re-attached the clamp to the telescope when handling the evidence.
“You were aware at some point the clamp and the telescope were attached together?” Mr Holt asked during cross examination.
“I’ve picked it up and I don’t recall putting it together,” Mr Sheldon said.
“I don’t know why I would put it together, but I don’t remember. I also could have put it together.
“I would have said (in a log) I put it together but I don’t honestly recall.”
A second officer Luke Scells was responsible for logging the evidence from the apartment relating to the investigation into Ms Wright’s death.
The senior constable was also asked about the telescope and whether he attached the clamp found in the apartment to it.
“It’s possible it could have been me, I cant be sure... I wish I could recall,” he said in phone evidence from the Whitsundays.
EARLIER: CCTV of Warriena Wright and Gable Tostee meeting in Surfers Paradise on the night of her death has this morning been shown to a Brisbane court.
The footage shows Ms Wright waiting for Tostee on a bench at Cavill Ave at about 8.30pm on August 7, 2014.
It was played to the jury doing the third day of Tostee’s trial murder trial over the death of the 26-year-old Gold Coast tourist.
In the footage, Tostee and Ms Wright can be seen meeting for the first time and hugging briefly.
Tostee wears a black T-shirt and Ms Wright black jeans and a dark jacket.
The pair can be seen walk together to the Beer Garden in Surfers Paradise but stay only a few minutes before grabbing a sixpack of beer from a nearby BWS and heading to Tostee’s unit in the Avalon Apartment complex.
CCTV footage from the early hours of the next day has also been shown to the court, where Tostee can be seen fleeing the apartment complex through the basement fire escape about 2.20am on August 8, after Ms Wright has fallen from the balcony.
Tostee can be seen wearing different clothes from the earlier footage.
Now he wears a green collared shirt and light coloured jeans.
Footage of several locations in Surfers was also played to the court.
It depicts Tostee roaming the streets of Surfers Paradise for more than 45 minutes after he leaves the apartment building.
Tostee has pleaded not guilty to Ms Wright’s murder.
He is being tried by a jury of six men and seven women.
The courtroom is today packed with what appears to be university students.
The trial continues today and is expected to run into next week.
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