Warriena Wright’s final tragic hours with Gable Tostee: The transcript of alleged recordings
AT 9pm on August 7 Warriena Wright entered Gable Tostee’s apartment, five hours later she was dead. Read the transcript of the alleged recording of that fateful night here:
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THIS is the alleged recording of Gable Tostee and Warriena Wright’s final hours together in his Surfers Paradise apartment.
WARNING: Content may distress.
THE NIGHT TOGETHER
12.56.30am: Music heard. It is James Blunt’s Nights Like These.
12.57am: Male: “Don’t go baby, please.”
12.58am: Drinks poured.
1.02am: Male asks female to come here and chill and have a drink. Repeats to chill, have a drink. Male says that everything on him is good looking. Female: “I am psycho drunk and not to test her.”
1.03.30am: Male: “Shut up or I will make you come again. Female: “Shut up or I will beat you up. You look like Sam.”
ALLEGED SEX STRUGGLES AND ARGUMENTS BETWEEN TOSTEE AND WRIGHT
GABLE TOSTEE’S BID FOR FREEDOM HAS BEEN ADJOURNED
1.05.30am: Male: “Do you want to come to my work tomorrow?” Female: “Do you want to come to my family tomorrow?”
Male: “You can help me lay carpet. You can help me tell my mum I am not a loser ...”
1.07am: Female: “I know you want to kill me because you told me so.” Reference to dying from smoking.
1.08am: Further conversation about galaxies and travel to Alice Springs. Conversation about religion and gods.
1.09am: Male says that he “doesn’t think there is anything after death”. “Throw me off the balcony and that is it. This is it, boom.”
1.12am: Male: “Don’t touch them. You love them rocks.” Female: “Are you a god?” Male replies that yes he is. He is Zeus. He tells her to relax.
1.13am: Female says she is talking about gods. Male says there are no gods. She again calls him Zeus.
1.14am: Female says she is going to go vampire on his ass. Conversation about Reza. Male: “Stay right there.”
1.15am: Female: “You are dead and I hate you.”
1.16am: Conversation about her dead dog.
Male: “Don’t hurt me, I am defenceless.”
1.19.30am: After minutes of laughing and hitting in the background, male is heard to say “Ow”.
1.20.30am: Music still playing in the background amid soft sounds of groaning.
1.26.30am: Male: “I should walk you home.”
1.27am: Male: “Stop that.” Female: “Oh my god you are like a Christian.” Further inaudible conversations.
1.28.30am: Female: “Don’t be a (expletive) to me.” ... Inaudible conversation ... Male: “I don’t want to like have to muscle you.”
1.29.30am: Male: “Just relax.” ... Inaudible conversation ... “I don’t like getting beaten up.” ... Inaudible conversation.
1.31am: Male: “Just be nice.” Inaudible conversation. Conversation is calm.
1.33.30: Male: “Come here.” Female: “Have a good night.” Male: “Do you want me to walk you back home.” Moves closer to the recording device. Sounds of ruffling and female is heard to say “have a good night” and male states “no (inaudible) I’ll take care of you in the morning.”
1.35.30am: Music stops.
HEATED ROW:
1.36am: Female: “Where is my sister’s (expletive). Where is all my (expletive) data? Where is my iPhone?” Male: “Do you want me to ring it?” Female: “Yes, I would love you to (expletive) ring it.”
1.36.30am: Male: “There is a ton of your stuff here. Hey I didn’t say you have to leave. I said that you have to stop beating me up.” Heated conversation.
1.37am: Female: “Are you going to (expletive) untie me because I will (expletive) destroy your jaw. It is not (expletive) funny.”
Female: “Get it for me. Male: “No, you get it.” Female: “I am going to call the police.”
1.37.30am: Repeats she is going to call the police.
1.38am: Male: “Cmon Cletus.”
1.38.30am: Female: “I am going to call the police.” Male: “What are you looking for? Where is my money. How are you going to call the police without your phone?”
Female: “You stole my (expletive) phone.” Male: “I should have never given you so much to drink. I thought that we were going to have fun?”
1.39am: Male: “I don’t deserve this (expletive), OK. I am a nice (expletive) guy.” Sound of a beep (phone).
1.39.30am: Male: “Your phone must be out of battery” ... “it must be out on the balcony.”
Male: “Please calm down please. You have had too much to drink. I had (expletive) loads of money.” Female states that she “(expletive) rules in New Zealand but she gets taken advantage of. It is not (expletive) funny”.
1.40am: Male: “Do you even remember what you were doing to me half an hour ago?
“You were beating me up for no reason.” Female: “Exactly.” Male: “You thought it was funny or something. Why were you beating me up?” Female: “I am gone. I will be out of your hair, see you later. I am going.” Then produces the phone. Female: “See you later.” Male: “You are such a drama queen.”
1.40.10am: Call to deceased, six seconds.
1.41am: Male asks if we can sit down and discuss this. Female says she is a freak. Male says that he is going to get bruises. He asks the female to stay the night and says he is the most tolerant person he would meet, adding “but you are just a bit violent.” Male offers to cook something. Male again asks if she wants something to eat.
1.45am: Male asks how long the female is living on the Gold Coast. Female: “Geez, god didn’t want me here for long, he has kicked me out already.”
1.45.30am: Female says that “Myjambu did not say anything.” Male asks if it is a Maori god. Calm conversation.
1.46:30: Conversation about Procifany and Greek gods and mythology.
1.48am: Female asks if she can go over to the window and have a look. Male: “Don’t jump off or anything.” Female: “No.” Further inaudible conversation.
1.49am: Male says people with white coats are going to come in and the states that she would jump off the balcony. He says he is totally flattered that his vodka has had this effect on her.
1.49.30am: Male: “Just come here, I just want to cuddle you. Male states I just want to snuggle you. Door shuts and possible toilet seat going down. Possibility that female is in the toilet.
1.51.am: Male whispers into the recording device, “God help me, (expletive).”
1.52.30am: Female calls male a social demon.
1.53am: Male asks if she got the photos he sent her. “Our balcony photos. You are so much more drunker than me. I need to catch up.”
1.53.30am: Ruffling sounds. Drink poured. Male: “That is like vodka on the rocks. That is yours.
1.56.30am: Female: “That is horrible. I am going to leave that there.”
1.57am: Male states that his mum is in Adelaide because his pa died. Died of cancer. Conversation about male finding out about his pop dying.
1.57.30am: Doesn’t think he has been so sad before.
2.02.30am: Female: “UK men are funnier and have bigger (expletive).” Male: “Not bigger than mine.” Conversation continues. Male asks if his is the “biggest”.
2.03.30am: Male: “Hey hey hey, no violence.” Then laughs and says “What are you doing Cletus?” and “enjoy that”. Female: “Cheers.”
2.05.30am: Male tells “Cletus to chill out”. He says “it is not cool here and he will fix that (expletive)”.
Possible pouring, drinking. Male asks to promise that she does not beat him up. Asks her to sleep next to him.
2.09am: Male states that if she “was going to go all kung fu on me then I will kick your (expletive)”. Calm conversation.
2.11am: Sound of a struggle and ruffling sound of recording device. Female: “That really hurt my vagina.” More struggling and male laughing, to which female replies: “You sound like a (expletive)”.
2.12am: Male states she is insane. Sounds of background clicking. Male: “They are not real they are only fake.”
2.12.30am: Male: “Who is Sam.” Says “ow” again, before “I’ll bow down to Sam. I will do what you want. I will be your sex slave (possibly having rocks thrown)”.
2.14am: “That is enough.” Female: “No seriously, I have to have a (expletive).”
Male: You are not my kind of girl. That is enough. You have worn out your welcome. You have to leave. Female says OK, it is all good. Female out of breath. Male states ‘you have to leave’. Female replies ‘OK. It’s all good’. I thought you were a nice girl.
2.14.30am: Male says — Yeah it is you are (expletive) insane.
CHOKING SOUNDS AND THE FATAL PLUNGE:
2.15am: Male states I think you are kidding but you are not. Go on right now. Male states — I do need a sample of DNA.
2.15.30am: Male states — I thought you were kidding and I have taken enough. This is (expletive) (expletive). Male states — you are lucky I haven’t chucked you off my balcony you god damn psycho little (expletive). Male states — who the (expletive) do you think you ... I am. Yeah do your Muay Thai now.
2.16am: What. What — got something to say- say it. Female breathing heavily. Female states (unintelligible) sexist. Male relies yeah right. I am the one who is injured. You don’t have a god damn scratch on you.
2.16.30am: Male states I thought that you were just playing around but I am (expletive) sick of this (expletive). You’re a god damn psycho. I am going to let you go. I am going to walk you out of this apartment just the way you are. You are not going to collect any of your belongings you are just going to walk out and I am going to slam the door on you, do you understand? If you try and pull anything. I’ll knock you out, I’ll knock you the (expletive) out. Do you understand? Do you understand? Do you understand?
2.17.30am: Cmon, get up. Get up. Female states — I am so sorry. Male states I don’t care. Struggling — male — you don’t understand do ya. You don’t understand anything at all do you. Struggle. Male states ‘let go’. You think that you hit me and I was going to fall down like in the movies. More laboured breathing sounds. Male states let go of it. Let go. Let go. More choking sounds.
2.18am: First choking sounds.
2.18.30am: Still laboured breathing sounds. Breathing slows. Male: “Let it go.”
2.19.30am: Sound of something dropping (metallic)
2.20am: Sound consistent with door unlocking. Female: “No.” Possible sound of glass door being hit.
2.20.30am: Male: “Who the (expletive) do you think you are? Hey?” Female: “No, no, no.”
Male: “You tried to kill me huh?” Male: “Well, why did you try and hit me with that. Huh? Shut your filthy mouth.”
Female: “No, no, no, no, no. (screaming).”
Male: “It is all on recording you know. It is all being recorded. Female: “Just let me go home.” Male: “I would but you have been a bad girl.” Sound of door sliding shut.
2.21am: “Just let me go home. Just let me go home.” Last words of “just let me go home”. Male heavy breathing. Faint scream detected.
2.21.30am: Very heavy breathing from male.
2.21.50am: Male makes call to lawyer Mick Purcell. Call made from handset. “(Expletive).” Call not connected.
2.22am: Male: “Where the (expletive) are my keys?”
2.23am: “Expletive, expletive, expletive.”
2.23.30am: “Oh my god.” Sound of getting dressed, pulling jeans up.
2.26am: Sound of sirens in the background.
2.26.30am: Sound of lift button.
2.28.30am: Walking noises. Footsteps.
2.39.30am: Walking stops.
2.24.13am: Call to deceased.
2.42am: Walking starts again.
2.47am: Call to Purcell.
2.49am: Screen shot taken of phone with images of deceased. Call to deceased.
3.10.30am: Male: “Um a piece of supreme please.”
3.11.30am: Paper rustling. (Eating pizza).
THE PHONE CALL
3.23am: Makes phone call. “Hello dad. I might have a bit of a situation. See um I met up with a girl for a date tonight and she started getting really aggressive. It was all right at first and like we, you know, had sex in bed and she kept drinking. We were both drinking and I think that she thought that it was like a joke or something and she kept like beating me up and whatever. It was cos she was really drunk and whatever and I like forced her out on the balcony and I think that she might have jumped off.”
Dad: “Oh no.”
3.23.30am: Male: “Like I have been walking around and there are a million cops around my building. I’m (expletive). I don’t know what to do.”
Dad: “Where are you? At your unit?”
Male: “I didn’t cause this, like I didn’t push her. There are a million cops in the area.”
Dad: “I’ll come and get you OK?”
Male: “It is really (expletive) up. I am like at Dominos. Dad, like this is not my fault.”
3.25am: Call continues ... “I don’t know, like I tackled her on my floor inside the building and I never forced her over the balcony.”
Dad: I am sure you wouldn’t, mate.”
Male: I don’t know what the (expletive) happened, it is crazy. I swear to god I didn’t push her, I just chucked her out on the balcony and locked the door because she was beating me up.”
Dad: “I’ll come over now OK?”
3.29am: Call continues. Male: Hang on a sec. What the (expletive). What the (expletive) is this ... you know how I said there was something in my pocket. Well it is her phone in my pocket.”
Dad: “Is it her phone?”
Male: “It is her phone, yeah ... Dad like what happened was we were drinking and we got into bed together then and after that she just kept drinking and she just kept like I don’t know she was just like beating me up. She thought it was funny or something and I was just like tackled her in the middle of my apartment and I said that it wasn’t funny anymore and blah blah blah.
“Then when I let her go the last thing I remember was she was on the balcony and I don’t know if she jumped or what, I don’t know. It wasn’t my fault, it wasn’t my god damn fault.”
3.46.30am: Call made and connected. “Hey dad, are you nearby. I am seriously freezing.
Dad: “Not far away at all. Male: “Can you stay on the line?” Dad: Yep.”
3.47.30am: Sound of car door opening and seatbelt being placed on.
3.48am: Dad: “We need to ring (lawyer) Bill Potts. Male: “I didn’t do anything. Dad: “I understand. Um the only thing we can do is ring Bill Potts up now. You can’t do anything else but that but you need to do it straight away really. Can you find his number?”
3.48.30am: Male: “I wish that I had cameras in my unit. I have audio. I tried calling her phone.” Dad: “Don’t call her phone.”
3.49am: Call is made to phone and goes to message bank. Dad: “What are you doing, why did you do that?” Male: “I don’t know.”
3.50am: Call to deceased.
3.51am: “Why does this (expletive) always happen to me. I didn’t ask for this. I wasn’t doing anything wrong, I just invited the girl over. The more she drank ...”
Dad: “Was she jealous or something?”
Male: “Me and her had sex and it was like the more that she drank she just got violent for some reason. Dad: “Did she want a more serious relationship or something?” Male: “No, she was like I know Muay Thai blah blah blah and I’ll beat you up for fun rah rah rah and I was like tolerating it for a bit and went ‘yeah stop that’. Last thing that I remember was that I tried holding her down and she ran out on to my balcony. I hope I just imagined it.”
3.51.30am: Call to deceased.
3.52am: I might have locked her out on my balcony cos there is like a lock. I can’t remember what I did but I absolutely did not throw her off my balcony. I would never do anything like that.”
3.52.30am: Dad: “We need to ring up Potts.” Male: “I don’t ask for this (expletive). Why does this (expletive) happen to me?”
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