Gable Tostee on 60 Minutes: No point getting ambos after Tinder date’s balcony fall

Gable Tostee says there was no point calling an ambulance after his Tinder date fell from his balcony.

Gable Tostee says there was no point calling an ambulance after Tinder date Warriena Wright fell from his 14th-floor Surfers Paradise balcony, and has ­defended his not looking over the edge after she fell.

Last month, a Queensland Supreme Court jury found Mr Tostee not guilty of the murder and manslaughter of New Zealand tourist Wright, who died on August 8, 2014, hours after the pair met.

Mr Tostee and Wright had gone back to his apartment to drink and have sex.

She became violent, he restrained her, and there was an ­altercation between them before he forced her out on to his balcony and locked the door.

Panicked, Wright screamed “no!” 33 times and begged to be allowed to go home, before falling to her death when she tried to climb off the balcony.

In a paid interview with the Nine Network’s 60 Minutes program, Mr Tostee ­defended his behaviour after she fell.

He called his lawyer 35 seconds after her final scream, but did not call an ambulance nor look to see whether she survived.

“Instinctively, I knew that if I ran out there and somebody saw me looking over the edge and she had actually fallen all the way, it would look like, you know, it would not look good,” he said.

“It would look like I had forced her over or something.

“Of course, I was worried about her.

“I was absolutely terrified at what had just happened to her.”

He said there was “no purpose” looking over the edge: “What had happened had ­happened, and there was nothing an ambulance could do to change that.”

The key piece of evidence in his trial was an audio recording of the events, which he had ­captured on his mobile phone.

“It’s more of a just-in-case thing, because you’re better off having something (recorded) and not needing it, than needing something and not having it,” Mr Tostee said of his decision to record the encounter. “Just in case — well, you know, the thing that happened on August 8, 2014, is a perfect example.”