“Not guilty”.

All eyes immediately turn from the jury and to the man in a crisp white shirt sitting in the dock.

For the first time in nine days, he shows emotion — several sighs of relief out loud and a brief look to the heavens.

The electronic clock in the Supreme Court in Brisbane flashes just after 3pm.

The two-year ordeal for Tinder lover Gable Tostee, 30, is finally over.

He is about walk from court a free man — cleared of the murder and manslaughter of New Zealand tourist Warriena Wright — to the train station from where he and his family will take the unusual journey back to their Gold Coast home.

Metres away, Mr Tostee’s parents, Gray and Helene and a blonde woman gasp and sob before embracing each other.

For one family the nightmare of August 8, 2014, when Ms Wright plunged 14 floors from Mr Tostee’s Surfers Paradise balcony, is finally over.

For Ms Wright’s family, who cried quietly when the verdict of not guilty was read, they will try and “pull the pieces of their own life back together”.

They are expected to face a coronial inquiry into the 26-year-old’s death, Homicide Squad Detective Inspector Damien Hansen said outside court yesterday.

Mr Tostee declined to speak as a mob of journalists and the public followed him from the court to his solicitor’s office across the street.

Lawyer Nick Dore said his client was “looking forward to moving on with his life”.

“He is still in a bit of shock,” he told the Bulletin.

“He knows this has been a tragedy for two families and a lot of people have been affected by it.”

Ms Wright and Mr Tostee met in Cavill Ave on the evening of August 7 after speaking on the dating app Tinder for about a week.

After going back to Mr Tostee’s unit in the Avalon Apartments, the pair got drunk before Ms Wright began throwing ornamental rocks at the man.

A scuffle occurred between the pair which Mr Tostee “de-escalated” by putting Ms Wright on his balcony.

She climbed over the edge and fell to her death.

The jury found Ms Wright acted irrationally and disproportionately by scaling the railing.

Jurors deliberated for slightly more than 13 hours and on the seventh day of trial told Justice John Byrne they could not agree on a verdict.

Eventually they did.

Several female jurors wiped tears from their eyes as they filed into the courtroom to read the not guilty verdict.

The six men and six women were asked to consider Tostee’s case without emotion, a difficult task given how high profile it had become.

Ms Wright’s family, who were accompanied by homicide detectives, appeared shocked by the jury’s decision and left the courtroom quickly after the verdict.

Outside court, Queensland Homicide Victims Support Group spokeswoman Deb Taylor read a statement from the family.

She said the case had been an “incredibly traumatic” for everyone involved, “let alone the families who have been impacted by this”.

“As you may appreciate, Warriena Wright’s family are still coming to terms with the loss of their daughter and their sister, as well as enduring the anguish of being present here for this trial these last two weeks,” Ms Taylor said.

She said the family, who were overwhelmed by the media attention, asked for privacy as they returned to New Zealand.

By the eighth day of trial, Mr Tostee and his family began to look tired.

Nice blazers and gold jewellery did not hide their exhaustion.

They had cameras shoved in their face day after day, one afternoon running from media in the pouring rain.

Throughout the jury deliberations Mr Tostee was rarely present.

Locked behind the door of interview room 5.4, situated alongside the court where he was tried, friends and family came and went.

A young couple popped in for a visit one afternoon, phoning the 30-year-old from outside the door before he came out and let them in.

On the eighth day of trial, another young man came by.

But, Mr Tostee’s mates didn’t stay all day, unlike the onslaught of media who camped outside the court for the duration of the trial.

As he left the courthouse yesterday, Mr Tostee received applause from some people on the street. Others shouted out derogatory words.

But no matter what the public thinks, Mr Tostee today woke up a free man.