Warriena Wright’s mother shares anger over chilling tape

THE mother of Warriena Wright, who plunged to her death from the balcony of accused murderer Gable Tostee, has revealed her anguish outside court.

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EVERY day this week, Marzabeth Tagpuno Wright has had to endure the harrowing task of attending a trial that has delved into her daughter’s final moments.

But on Thursday, Warriena Wright’s mother said it was the media who had made it “the most saddest, hardest trip I have ever had to endure”.

Ms Tagpuno Wright issued a statement to media outside the Brisbane Supreme Court after the Crown’s case against Gable Tostee, who has pleaded not guilty to Warriena’s murder, ended yesterday.

Ms Tagpuno Wright was not in the courtroom earlier in the week, when an audio recording of her daughter screaming “no, no, no, no” repeatedly inside Tostee’s apartment was played to jurors.

She then unexpectedly heard it played by a media outlet.

Ms Tagpuno Wright’s friend, Fiona Garvin, who accompanied her from Wellington, New Zealand, for the trial, read the statement on her behalf.

“To the media, you have made this trip the most saddest, hardest trip I have ever had to endure,” Ms Garvin said.

“I did not want to hear my daughter screaming, ‘No, no, no.’

“I did not want to have to remember her like that.”

Via Ms Garvin, Ms Tagpuno Wright said she would not be speaking to any media representatives at the conclusion of the trial and pleaded to be left alone.

“To those who want an exclusive from my family, we say no,” she said

“The media have hurt me so bad.

“When this is over I will go back to New Zealand, I want to be left alone.

“Please respect my privacy, I will not talk to anybody, just leave our family in peace.

“No matter how this goes, I just want to go home.”

The trial will resume on Friday morning.

Fiona Garvin, a friend of Warriena Wright’s mother Marzabeth Tagpuno Wright, reads a statement to the media outside the Brisbane Supreme Court. Photo: Jodie Richter

WARRIENA’S BLOOD-ALCOHOL LEVEL REVEALED

The forensic pathologist who performed Warriena Wright’s autopsy told the court yesterday that the young New Zealander’s body was “folded over on itself” when it arrived at the mortuary.

Gold Coast doctor Dianne Little told the Brisbane Supreme Court that Ms Wright had more than 80 injuries after she fell from Gable Tostee’s 14th-storey Surfers Paradise apartment in the early hours of August 8, 2014.

Her blood alcohol reading was estimated to be 0.156, or more than three times the safe driving limit.

Dr Little, the last witness in the Crown’s case, told the court it was hard to conclusively determine Ms Wright’s height, because “there was severe disruption to her body due to trauma”.

“She had severe injuries to all of her body that caused her death,” she said.

“At the time she arrived in the mortuary her body was almost folded over on itself, her head was hyper-flexed down towards her trunk.

“There was a piece of her jeans caught in a skull fracture.”

Gable Tostee and Warriena Wright inside his 14th floor Surfers Paradise apartment just hours before the New Zealand tourist plummeted to her death from the balcony. Picture: AAP Image/Supplied by Queensland Supreme Court

CCTV footage of Gable Tostee with Warriena Wright on the night she fell from his Gold Coast apartment.

The 162cm, 57kg Ms Wright met Tostee just hours before her death, after the pair matched on Tinder.

The court has previously heard the pair spent the night of August 7, 2014, drinking and having sex in Tostee’s home, on the 14th floor of Surfers Paradise’s Avalon Apartments.

Audio recorded by Tostee of the night appeared to show the pair fighting, and captured Ms Wright’s terrified screams, as Tostee allegedly refused to let her go home.

He locked her on his balcony, before she plunged to her death while trying to climb to the balcony below.

The Crown contends she was fleeing for her life in fear of Tostee when she fell.

Dr Little told the court that Ms Wright had “poorly defined” red marks on her neck but that they were “Not consistent with any application of force”.

The Crown has contended Tostee strangled Ms Wright in the course of their struggle, in a part of the tape where her cries for help appear muffled.

Tostee’s defence counsel has argued there is no evidence he strangled his Tinder date.

The Crown’s case has now concluded and the jury has been excused for the remainder of the day, as Justice John Byrne, Crown prosecutor Glenn Cash and defence barrister Saul Holt, QC, argue points of law.

Gable Tostee arrives at the Brisbane Supreme Court. Photo: Jodie Richter

Photos from Gable Tostee's medical examination after Warriena Wright plunged to her death. A forensic doctor said it was not possible to draw conclusions as to when and how any injuries happened.

‘SADDEST TRIP I’VE HAD TO ENDURE’