One year on from balcony tragedy

A year ago today, 26-year-old Kiwi woman Warriena Wright fell to her death from a Surfers Paradise balcony. Photo / Supplied

A year ago today, 26-year-old Kiwi woman Warriena Wright fell to her death from a Surfers Paradise balcony.

Australian Gable Tostee has been charged with the Wellington woman's murder, but he has vigorously denied the charges.

Tostee and Wright met on dating app Tinder only hours earlier.

But things took a nasty turn. Police allege Wright was fearing for her life when she attempted to climb down to a balcony below Tostee's apartment, but slipped and fell to her death.

Audio of the evening's events, recorded on Tostee's phone, has been lodged as evidence and appears to detail the arguing and fighting, before Wright is locked out on the balcony.

Tostee was released from prison on parole last week after serving six months for an unrelated drunken high-speed chase in July last year.

It didn't take long for him to return to social media, penning a missive on Facebook maintaining his innocence and suggesting he'd been the victim of a witch-hunt after the death.

"It has been almost a year since the tragic incident occurred at my apartment and I don't think I will ever adjust to the nightmarish reality that I wake up to each day," he wrote.

He maintained his innocence and said he did not assault Wright.

"I understand that, when a tragedy occurs, it is natural for people to want to blame someone, but the outcome of this was not something that I ever at any point could have expected, let alone intended, and I feel the utmost sympathy for the deceased and those close to her," he said.

In an affidavit filed to the Queensland Supreme Court during his bail application, a woman who lived below Tostee's 14th floor apartment provided a graphic re-enactment of Wright's fatal plunge.

Emily Ellis said she and two males, Ryan and Nick, were first drawn out onto her balcony of the Avalon Apartments in the early hours of August 8 because of what she could hear going on from above.

"I heard a girl say 'I just, I just want to go home, please let me go home' and she was quite scared," Ellis said in the re-enactment for Gold Coast detectives.

"We were trying to look out. We said 'it's right above us, there's something going on right above us here' ... because you could hear her. She was trying to get away, there was a lot of movement.

"We were trying to see what was going on and because of what we could hear I looked over and as I looked over ... I've said to Ryan ... 'Oh God, she's coming over, she's coming over the balcony'."

Tostee will reappear in next month on the murder charge.