Gable Tostee sentenced to jail

Gable Tostee is due to face Southport Magistrates Court next month.

Murder accused Gable Tostee has been sentenced to 10 months in jail after admitting to a drunken, high-speed cross-border police pursuit in his father's car.

Tostee, who is on bail for the alleged murder of Lower Hutt woman Warriena Wright, was sentenced in a New South Wales court today, the Courier Mail reported.

He will serve six months on charges of speeding and being involved in a police pursuit before he is released on parole.

The court was told Tostee, 28, was involved in a police pursuit which reached speeds of almost 200km/h and ended after officers deployed road spikes near the Queensland-New South Wales border.

The incident happened on July 27 last year, three weeks before he was charged with Ms Wright's murder.

He had been at the Splendour in the Grass music festival at Byron Bay and was sleeping in his father's car when friends woke him and asked him to drive them back to the Gold Coast to get into a nightclub before the 3am lockout, the Courier Mail reported.

He had a blood alcohol reading of four times the legal limit.

Tostee is due to face Southport Magistrates Court next month on the drink-driving charge, as that alleged offence happened in Queensland.

He is also awaiting trial over the death of Ms Wright, who died after plunging from his Gold Coast apartment balcony in August last year.

He had met the New Zealand woman hours earlier through online dating app Tinder.